Stuff Gadget Awards 2012 – Sat-Nav of the Year shortlist

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Our Sat-Nav of the Year shortlist will take you places – and we’ll steer you right.

CoPilot Live Premium

The best paid-for navigation app delivers the look and feel of a hardware sat-nav on your phone – and with preloaded maps, to avoid murderous data charges.

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TomTom Via 135

£140 tomtom.com

TomTom’s mid-tier satnav is perfectly priced for those who want more than just a smartphone app – and it comes with voice control, too.

Waze

£Free Google Play/App Store

This free, crowd-sourced navigation app takes the social approach to mapping – with all its users contributing to the accuracy and usefulness of the app.

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Google Maps Navigation

£Free Google Play

Google Maps with Navigation is fluid, intuitive, and beautifully designed – with Street View, a cache option for avoiding data chargers and voice control. And all for the princely sum of nothing.

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Garmin nüvi 3590LMT

£280, garmin.com

Slender and stylish, the Garmin nüvi 3590LMT serves up live traffic info via your smartphone, plus free map updates for the life of the device. Now that’s what we call service.

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TomTom GO LIVE 1005 World

£300, tomtom.com

That 5in screen is the perfect showcase for the Go Live 1005’s smooth graphics. But it’s not all eye-candy – this top-tier TomTom gives you a year’s free Live services plus TomTom HD Traffic.

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website. Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge. Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones. He's also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.