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Free NAVIGON Navigation App - Premium, voice-guided navigation on GALAXY smartphones

Why buy a dedicated GPS unit when the Samsung GALAXY Smartphones come with the premium Navigon Navigation app for FREE¹. Delivering many of the features normally reserved for dedicated navigation units, NAVIGON comes pre-loaded with no strings attached on most Samsung GALAXY smartphones*.

Turn it on and your Samsung smartphone instantly becomes a premium personal navigation device (PND) that will help you get from A to B with ease. This handy app goes beyond many of the functions available on many PND’s. In the basic NAVIGON app you get:

• Free map updates every 3 months²!
• NAVIGON MyRoutes – choose from up to 3 routing options
• Reality View Pro – see the road the way it looks from the driver’s seat
• Google Local POI (Point of Interest) Search
• 2D and 3D view options
• Route Planning – add multiple destinations on your route
• Clever Parking – easily find parking near your destinations
• Live Weather for destination
• Take Me Home function
• Day and night modes – cuts glare during use at night
• Pedestrian navigation mode
• Manual coordinate entry
• Over 500,000 Points of interest preloaded
• Manual Zoom with multi-touch zoom in/out
• Wireless network location use for faster positioning

Plus, to extend the functions of the NAVIGON application you can also purchase useful add-on packages² including:

• Safety and Relax Package:

o   Speed Assistant: Alerts you when you’re travelling too fast for the speed limit
o   Safety Camera Alerts: Alerts you when in the vicinity of a fixed speed camera
o   Lane Assistant Pro: Provides spoken advice on the best lane to be in for complex road junctions
o   Speed Zones: Notifies the current speed limit

• Sound and Fun Package: Gives you spoken street names, various international English dialects and the Reality Scanner⁴ that allows you to virtually search your surroundings for interesting places
• Traffic Live Package: This package provides the latest traffic information in real time and allows NAVIGON to recommend the best route based on the current traffic situation.

 

Learn more about NAVIGON>> 

* The NAVIGON Navigation app is available on the following Samsung GALAXY devices:

• GALAXY S II
• GALAXY Tab (7-inch)
• GALAXY Ace
• GALAXY Mini
• GALAXY Fit
• GALAXY Gio
• GALAXY S (running Android v2.2 and above only)

 

1. Data charges may apply for download of application and map updates. No ongoing data is required for navigation operation.
    
2. Map updates are offered free of charge upon activation of the NAVIGON FreshMaps package and guaranteed for a 2 year period; after this time a fee may apply for further map updates.
    
3. Add-on packages may incur a one-time fee. This fee is listed within the Shop section of the application. Data download charges may apply. Languages: English, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish.
    
4. Reality Scanner does not operate on the Samsung GALAXY Tab 7-inch