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| Posted by blakew Any thoughts about Copilot? I do not know anybody with copilot to get some advice before I buy it. Is it good or not? |
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| Posted by grasue Re: Any thoughts about Copilot?
I have co-pilot 4.5 it is great for main cities but falls down when u hit the country areas as it does not have enough information in the programe....... I have been advised that there is a new version coming in August and it is 100 times better, It even found my place which is great. Hope this helps. Graham |
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| Posted by glenby Copilot 5 Live I just got Co-pilot 5 live for pocket pc (pda). The map data is v12 which is as current as it gets - new release in August. The main reason I got copilot was the price - $300. I personally should have paid more and got some other brand - see notes below. Generally speaking Co-pilot was cheapest for me. To be fair to copilot - Copilot tried to make me jump off a bridge but I think this is map data, it has also tried to get me to take bus lanes etc . For Australia I can't say that any of the GPS programs are better than any other due to map data quality. Destinator did the same thing and from my perspective, Destinator and copilot are very similar in terms of interface and results. All 3 that I have used have massive holes in their data and this is due purely to the fact that they all use the same map data now. Sensis. Notes - Copilot isn't as easy to use and you have to use the stylus to enter in and address. Tomtom has bigger buttons and the map revolves around the arrow - you are always facing up and you can see the street names as they come into line. Copilot doesn't do this (for safety). Once you are going more than 16k's/hr it changes to a blue screen with written info and you have to rely on it. Copilot has slightly quicker re-routing and calcing than either tomtom or destinator. Destinator and copilot have text to speech which wasn't in tomtom. i.e. it says turn right into "name" street - not just turn right. Destinator tells you when you are speeding - haven't found that in the others. I ended up buying Copilot as I got it for $300 but reckon that Garmin or Tomtom would have been better. my 2c's worth |
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| Posted by GDT More... Some posts are not listed here. See all posts here: Any thoughts about Copilot? GPS Data Team |
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| Posted by tboneandporcini Tested OK over 6000 miles I tried several navigators in the last, hmm..., 8 years, starting with TomTom, which is my reference point. I drive much in the UK and Europe, so I am looking at the overall usability. The new Copilot Live Premium is not bad in this sense. You can operate it with one hand and without glasses, it has many features well organised in the menu, the quality of routing is good, advanced planning and roadblocks supported, etc. It has a unique feature of being able to signal the speed and camera alerts even without a route. The only shortcoming is lack of mobile camera POI. Tested over 6000 miles internationally - I will keep it. |
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| Posted by tboneandporcini Tested OK over 6000 miles Update. After the admin allowed me to download from this site, and after I disabled the feature in Firefox to tell the sites not to track me, i was able to download the the mobile camera poi file for the UK... A few new cameras appeared on the screen, but many are missing. In fact, the most dangerous locations are not included - where the road is good, no kids/cats, no record about accident black spots, and where the police are hiding particularly well in the bushes. So, I am still looking... Serious accident locations were looked up here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8401344.stm |
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| Posted by tboneandporcini Tested OK over 6000 miles OK, a few days later the mobile camera database for my area is more or less complete. The official UK data on the camera locations was of great help. Entering the camera POI is simple. An important feature is missing in Copilot - customisation of warnings on a per-category basis. Looking for a solution now. Please let me know if anyone has managed to hack this issue. |
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