CoPilot Live 7 - Review

Jarvist · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 26, 2006 Posts: 20

Hi all,

In the thread below, it was mentioned that CoPilot Live 7 for PDA's would be reviewed this month.
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=62833

Is this still going to happen?

I'm really keen to get CoPilot Live 7 as a replacement for my TomTom. Hopefully it will have better, much more up to date mapping. Especially with the question looming over whether TomTom will release another PDA version of the software!

Another query I have is that TomTom 6 lets you specify different distances for each POI to warn you. I guess this is good to give you more notice of a 70mph camera, rather than a 30mph camera. In practice is the limitation of one distance for all POI's in CoPilot a problem ?

Teddy_Bear · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:06 pm Post subject:

yes it will be

regards,
jen
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Jarvist · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 26, 2006 Posts: 20

alix776 · Posted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 8:47 pm Post subject:

jen was replying to your first question

the mapping is 2007 Q4 as far as i recall

indivudual poi warning is there but it you add a few custom poi then you can only warn the whole custom ones camera warning is a separate function to the main poi warning. the interface is much improved jen prefers it to her cp6 and keeps knicking my phone so she can use it personally i use it everday on my compact 3 in my job as a courier
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Jarvist · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 26, 2006 Posts: 20

Excellent ... thank you both.

I think I shall now be crossing to CoPilot 7. The screenshots I have seen are amazing.

samsul · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:39 pm Post subject:

I am looking forward to the review this week.

alix776 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

i thi9nk darren is doing the reveiw of cp7. hopefully it will be up soon usually testing is done in the real world situations for example we will test the application or pnd as anyone else would use this is why sometimes it takes us a little while to get reveiws up
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Jarvist · Occasional Visitor Joined: May 26, 2006 Posts: 20

Aaah now Im confused, I thought the review had taken place and was just requiring to be published!!!!

I've got my credit card burning a hole in my wallet deciding if I should get CP7, or wait to see if TT release a new version!

samsul · Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2008 11:39 pm Post subject:

I doubt you'll see a review of Copilot 7 here anytime soon. I am sure these guys have better things to do then review a popular navigation software.

I personally wouldn't recommend it. I agree it looks much better than Tomtom but when it comes to route calculation, the routing algorithm is completely wrong. For example, I wanted to go to Liverpool from Manchester. I put the address in Tomtom and it showed me 39 miles to the address - which was correct. Then I put the same destination in Copilot 7, it told me it was 79 miles away - now how is that possible?

My conclusion, nice GUI but not a good navigation software.

Darren · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:21 am Post subject:

I'm getting a little tired of your remarks. Last time you were complaining that we had not reviewed beta software that was under NDA, give it up.

We are in the process of reviewing it but with one of our three on holiday and another on business iI am battling to prepare three major reviews and a few others all at the same time.

All are equally important and all will be ready when they are ready and will be detailed reviews as a result. Perhaps you would rather our reviews were as brief as yours and buyers instead made their informed decision based on three paragraphs!
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dpdurst · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2008 10:45 am Post subject:

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