This is 2008 and, being away from home, I wanted to revisit some of the free satellite navigation applications that I'd previously played with over a year ago - surely one of them had developed into something that could get me home? Or is successful real time navigation still the preserve of the commercial applications like Nokia Maps, Wayfinder, CoPilot, etc.? Here's my attempt to find my way home using amAze, Nav4All and Google Maps for Mobile...

"The challenge, I'd have thought, wasn't too difficult. I had a fully charged Nokia N95, with latest firmware and built-in Assisted-GPS (of course). Time to get helped home by trying out several of the free navigation systems in their latest versions."

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