Sygic Aura GPS app for Android
One of the first and biggest hurdles any third-party navigation app will need to clear on Google's Android platform is Google itself. While this may not be the case with other mobile OSes, Android (or at least devices running version 1.6 or better) comes more or less bundled with Google's free Google Maps with Navigation app.
Aura lists for free in the Android Market and is a 3.3MB download. However, that's not the full story. After installing, users must also download the maps for their area. I chose to download only maps of California and Nevada, which occupied 263MB and 40MB of my SD card, respectively. Maps of all of the continental United States would take up to 2GB. Sygic recommends you perform these downloads over Wi-Fi, but we were able to grab our maps over 3G. Fortunately, the app allows users to resume incomplete downloads.
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