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hey everyone Daniel Webster from packing.com and today I'm going to show you urban horizon and what this program is going to do is turn your gps enabled phone into a gps navigation system an urban horizon works with or without a data connection and you can store the maps directly to your storage card so we'll just go into this as you can see it will check for updates as is up to date and when you hear that little sound that means it is up to date and it will start the program so of course it says do not operate while driving but we're just going to okay and we give you your current position and the cool thing about this feature is you can change between 3d and 2d and I'll show you a little more on that when we're done so if you want to go somewhere let's say we just want to scroll and we can just pick any position we can select that position by holding down our stylist or our finger it works is very finger-friendly senior thing I'm just using the stylus for demonstrational purposes and we can either route to clear make it our home or add to favorites so if want to route to this position I can just go to there and we'll begin routing turn right onto so from here we'll start routing and this is just the demo mode as you can see it's here it's actually pretty your monitor selfies it'll tell you all the names of the roads as well as the distances so I'm just gonna stop this routing right here and we'll go into some of the features so you can select a home so if you have a home address you can click on that and you need to select it on the map or input to address yourself you can go to your favorites so I have a couple favorites here as you can see we can route to any of these so if i click on here i can click view and i can either call them it'll save their phone number as well as give their address you neither call them route 2 or go to so if i wanted to go to that place i could or route to that place I came as well so we'll just go back we'll go into some of the history it saves all your history so that's a very nice feature I use that feature a lot on other navigational programs so this is a great feature to have we can just go back the same same concept as before we can do it and just call them as well we can also search so it gives us a couple options we can search for address so if we need to type in the address we can it's pretty finger friendly but not nearly as great as some other programs you can also go two points of interest and type in a name or we can just get coordinates so if i needed a GPS coordinate that I want to get to I can do that as well and go nearby this will give us a list of points of interest that are close to our area so I've wanted to go shopping I can look here and look for something that's pretty close and so I wanted to go to the cutting edge home theater I can do that we can just go back we can go into our route information so if we wanted to continue on a route we can do that we can see all of our information on turn-by-turn directions as well as how far we can go straight and how close we are to our destination we can minimize the program so it'll just it'll still run in the background but we can just go back into the program and you can go into some of the settings so we have the system settings and we can change the time and we can also sync with UTC which means that'll give us our correct time from the satellites so like a atomic time you can change from 12-hour mode and get our sound settings so if you wanted to make it a little bit quieter which is pretty loud right now I can do that as well as needed it can change the display orientation so I've wanted to change it to 90 degrees I can do that or change it back it'll all go up to a 270 degrees so you can have it turned exactly this the opposite way that you want as well as it gives you a battery meter and going to the advanced we can change the labels on if you saw on our dashboard we have these dashboard settings so we can change the labels from our speed to our route distance a route ETA and we can change our control mode in that I'll show you that in just a second can also show our battery meter show gps status and network status which is the little bar at the top that keeps showing what connections I have through my Wi-Fi and through m-my hsdpa connection can also change the structure so we can see structures and I'll show you that so it says transparent or solid I changed it to all the way solid i'll show you that in just a couple seconds as well as landmarks and I have mine set for quality opposed to speed because I just want it to look nice right now can also change route settings so I'm in the United States so I wanted to change it to miles per hour this program will work in Canada as well and we can also save our GPS log so if you wanted to retrack one of our trips we can do that it's pretty simple just a recording a router settings so this is how once you change it to either fast or shortest you can do that you can avoid toll roads which is a pretty nice feature because some navigational programs don't allow you to do that which I personally do not like to pay toll roads so I would always select that button and for the guidance settings this will give you your distance as well as or the time so depending on what the voice says you can change that on here so let's go back and we can also go to our user information this is our network settings right here and it will also give you your registration ID and our GPS information so if you want to see which satellites were connected to right now and we're just going to the amount of information and it gives you a long list of information about the program okay so from here I might actually get go to one of my favorites and I selected a favorite I'm just going to go to Broad Street we'll go there so here it will direct us to Broad Street which is Seattle give this are the GPS position as well as a little description but there's not too much to say about broad street just close that and this program has one feature that I have never seen on any other program that's been released yet in that is a 3d mapping system that actually shows you buildings as well as landmarks so we'll just let some load here if you can see this building right here is actually the Space Needle and we can change it with our little joystick which is very nice so if we scroll over we can see that it's the space needle and they'll be transparent for a second until they solidify we can turn the directional pad all the way around as well as go into the atmosphere so that's nice you can zoom out and see the rest of the city it does take a little bit of time to load the buildings but it is rather worth it if you are the type of person that gets lost easily it's very nice to have landmarks as well as buildings to see where heading urban horizon will run on nearly all windows mobile 5 and greater devices points of interest our updated from teleatlas and updates are free which some mapping software such as garmin they charge you a like per year so if you wanted to up to grade the maps on garmin it you'd have to buy the new maps every year the program is priced from free for a 14-day trial and it goes all the way up to 59 99 for a year subscription and this is a service based program but it's a lot cheaper than if you were to use like 80s navigator and be about half the cost if you bought it your subscription and as you can see this is the wvga version it's not quite available yet to the general public but I've talked to the developer so hopefully it will be implemented for testing on other devices and i'll post a link of pocketnow.com so how to get this thanks for watching