First Look: NMobile for iPhone

This is pretty amazing, I have actually never seen anything like this. This is my second great find today! Take a minute to also check out a new, free app they called Ziibii, which gives us iPhone users a way of staying in-touch and in-the-loop with friends, photos and basically the world. I found it for free via the iTunes App Store.

Could I suggest that support for the UK is dropped as, basically, by encouraging people to look at their phone while driving you're encouraging people to behave not only irresponsibly but illegally. (In the UK it's illegal to drive and use a phone at the same time).

Secondly, any driver who needs to be "reminded" to slow down is an idiot. There's a great big thing on the dashboard that tells you what speed you're going.
"Two miles and hour" (talking to Iomatic here) is a big difference if you're the one being hit by a car.

Drive within the law. Simple as that.

I offer all of those who call me a copycat or a clone of Trapster a free ad-hoc copy of Nmobile to compare. If you still feel that Trapster is better, that is something that I have to coincide. We have spent 3 months developing a new API for the mapping feature and open sourced the code for everyone to use. Njection on its own has been on CNN, NY Times as technical references, and other news print. We are currently adding routing and traffic data as we speek for the US and UK. There is a cost with development and Trapster and Njection has decided to take two different roads. I would rather charge a nominal fee that covers the cost of licensing the map tiles from Microsoft and aid in furthering the open source code. Trapster has decided to sell personal info of its users. And as for anonymous above, Interestingly he only appeared twice to post about Njection. http://www.tuaw.com/profile/2100986/. And my Privacy Policy policy still stand in its entirety:

Njection.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Njection.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, Njection.com may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Njection.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

I have to second trapster. The app is free and works great on the iPhone 3G. Why pay for somthing when it is free.

Go Trapster!!

Also someone from Njection spammed my trapster ID a while back. Not good

Total trapster knockoff. And for $9.99 it better come with an insurance feature that pays for my ticket if it fails to warn me.

What's with all the negative comments? This is not an app I would personally use, but I find it to be a cool idea. Sure, similar apps already exist in the AppStore, but what's wrong with competition? There are more than enough tip calculators and gas mileage trackers, but only three speed trap locators. Why is everyone so cranky over this one?

You stated this was one of the first native apps with Microsoft Live Maps. Actually, Loopt uses Microsoft Live Maps too, and that was out a long time ago.

Copycat of Trapster (pretty much feature by feature) which has been free on the App Store for a month. Trapster has 100,000 iPhone users and growing fast, 200,000 world wide users, world's largest trap database of over 100,000 red light camera, speed camera, and speed trap locations, and has been available on many other platforms like BlackBerry, Symbian, Windows Mobile etc. for over a year.

Your point about not being able to find directions is valid, but what's the betting it would have been rejected for duplicating functionality had the publishers tried that? Without that, though, the app seems a little crippled - assuming you know the area, which would be a prerequisite for using the app, you'll probably know where the speed cameras are!

the only comment i have is about the last line in the articel "... This application is just a little pricey at $9.99...".

I think one should read:

http://www.losingfight.com/blog/2008/11/15/how-to-price-your-iphone-app-out-of-existence/

Which is just settings things right IMHO!

No one will be able to maintain an app for $0.99 a download, so V1.x is probably the last version you'll see of many many apps priced at .99 cents.

(And yes i develop too, even for the iPhone - but none of the apps i intend to sell eventually in the future will be had for .99 because of obvious reasons).