I've only ever used Tomtom for car navigation geekery -firstly on my old pda and my wife's basic tomtom one unit. I'm about to press the button on buying an app for the phone but I'm aware of Copilot live premium and the navigon offering and there are bound to be others too. I'm keen on the idea of live traffic updates and reroutes whichever I get.
Has anyone used the latest version of some of these to compare against? If within reason cost was not an issue, which would you go for?
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I use co pilot on my iphone 4 and it's worked faultlessly here in the UK and across Europe.
Regular updates and a simple interface make it pretty damn good in my opinion.
Make sure you have an in car charger though, sat nav will eat your battery at a frightening rate.
hmmm, navigon frustrates me tbh. Spends too much time trying to get you back to the previously arranged route rather than working out a new route from where you are. Really posses me off when I use it, so much so I've stopped using it most of the time. Try navfree?
Thanks both. Any more thoughts from the daytime crowd?
I use navfree. It's a free Satnav. It's OK. Worth getting it as it's free. Try it for a while, if you don't like it then buy the tom-tom. It's great
Just my 2p
Copilot was 15 quid (1/2 price release offer) and I've dished out the tender for a years traffic subscription.
Pretty good so far but the jury it still out on the traffic updates.
Another Navfree user. Clunky on occasion, but its obvious when its making mistakes you you can confidently ignore them - it tried to direct me down a flight of stairs once.
No reason not to try it while you make up your mind whether to buy anything else
Navfree. Free and always works well for me across the uk!
navfree here too - used for about a year or so now
its got 7 digit postcode database so pretty accurate. only been wrong once that I know of. sometimes clunky about redirecting you if you go wrong, and can take a while to catch up if you use ratruns.
Worth trying as said before.
I use CoPilot Live, although I don't bother with the 'Live' bit as I don't use it often enough. It works very well, provided you take the time to go through the settings and specify the priority of the roads you want to use, otherwise it'll take you all round little roads instead of staying on A roads, which is annoying. That done, it works well, and the voice commands are very good indeed, and motorway junctions show lane changes clearly. For the money, I think it's great. Just take time setting road prefs, avoiding minor roads and preferring A roads and/or motorways.
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