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

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

CoPilot Live Premium

from £20 Google Play/App Store
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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