I use Go Launcher almost solely for the good folder support, it just does what iOS does and tapers off the end of the text. Realistically it's probably the "best" solution, but it'd be good to have options. At any rate, Touchwiz's wrapping of single letters is pretty untidy.
robjg63: I found the navigon software a bit of a pain to use to be honest - admittedly I am using a galaxy ace and the navigon I installed was the version from about Nov last year, but the thing that I found especially annoying with navigon was trying to put street addresses into it - it always seemed to need the suburb - ok that shouldnt be a big deal - but say its a long road that goes through a couple of suburbs - I dont really know that detail too well - thats why I am asking the software to help me - it didnt seem to like the house number and street name unless you had the correct suburb. On the other hand google navigate just seemed to work. The other thing with navigon was that its voice instructions would be turn left, turn right etc. With google navigate it has a fairly decent go at reading the street name out to you - I found that surprisingly comforting. But I take your point about the data. I pre-cached most of Auckland.
I agree that particular "feature" was a bit irritating. I know they were trying to eliminate as many alternatives as possible, but for the reasons you describe, it didn't help a great deal.
Aside from that, I found that the actual directions and accuracy were better than Google maps, particularly when dealing with motorway offramps and things likely to be a major problem (such as having to travel 10Km out of your way because it didn't warn you which lane to be in in time).
Navigons instructions would vary depending on what voice you used which was a bit dopey. Given the large number of Maori street names which nav apps can't pronounce (down this way anyway), that particular feature isn't of a lot of use to me. Ngaio gets pronounce "En-guy-oh" and Kaiwharawhara turns into an incomprehensible mess :)
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