13 September 2012 15:34 | By David Phelan
Apple iPhone 5: hands-on

New maps



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Then there's the Maps. Google, supplier of the mapping until now, is Apple's main rival in the phone world, so Apple decided to turf it out in favour of its own app. The new maps are supplied by TomTom and look elegant and clean. You can spin the maps round on the display using two fingers, so they're facing where you want them to. The street names turn as well, so they're always the right way up. You can set it to 2D or 3D views (though the latter is really just a slightly angled effect).

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