By ANDY IHNATKO for the Chicago Sun-Times

I guess I’m a man of Faith after all. I gave away my Garmin Nüvi GPS navigator earlier this year. I’d lent it to my sister for a 1200-mile road trip with the kids. When the time came for her to hand it back, she dropped a lot of hints about how grateful she was and how indispensable the GPS had been and how she’s always getting lost, particularly when driving her children to get their educations and their occasional medical checkups and …

So I told her to just keep it. At that point in Mankind’s evolution (March of this year) turn-by-turn navigation apps for the iPhone were still a myth. But Apple had indicated that they’d start allowing that category into the App Store in a few months’ time. I had an abiding faith that these apps wouldn’t suck.

I’ve spent the past couple of months trying out each one of the App Store’s major GPS turn-by-turn navigation apps. My first reaction? Thank God I write about this stuff for a living and was out-of-pocket on only one of these things. Navigators are expensive apps.

Andy’s MotionX-GPS Drive review:

When I climb into my car and pick up a friend for a 75-minute drive to a dinner party, I’ll be launching Motion-X GPS Drive. It’s hands-down my favorite navigator for the iPhone. In category after category, it offers exactly the solutions I want.

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