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Darren
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 Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 11:21 am Post subject: [v8-Android] CoPilot 8 Live for Android Reviewed |
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 Hot on the heels of the news that CoPilot has now been launched for iPhone comes our review of CoPilot 8 Live for Android handsets.
This review by Jason Gaunt, a PocketGPSWorld reader and avid Android user covers the installation and operation of CoPilot. With new Android handsets such as the HTC Hero aka T-Mobile G2 Touch now hitting the stores, ALK's CoPilot now brings a premium navigation solution to the platform.
We have reviewed CoPilot's various products many times in the past in the past for the smartphone platform, as well as numerous other products released by ALK Technologies (The company behind CoPilot), here follows a review of their latest offering, CoPilot Live for Android.
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But what about Windows Mobile  |
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| Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:20 am Post subject: CoPilot for Android |
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Thanks Jason for an informative review. One question: how did you secure your Android unit (Hero or Magic?) to dashboard or did you not perhaps do so?
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| fabbers wrote: | | But what about Windows Mobile |
working well so far on my Touch HD using a custom Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM. |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 2:24 pm Post subject: |
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| fabbers wrote: | | But what about Windows Mobile |
Windows Mobile CoPilot Live v8 released today Click Here for details. It even works on my years old XDA Orbit 1...
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| FWIW, I use a £10 sucker mount from Halfords to hold my G1 to the dash, with a 12V charger hard wired into the ignition system. Works well enough, but the CP8 on the G1 certainly works better in portrait mode. |
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Darren
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject: Re: CoPilot for Android |
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| owzat wrote: | Thanks Jason for an informative review. One question: how did you secure your Android unit (Hero or Magic?) to dashboard or did you not perhaps do so?
Tim |
Brodit and Carcomm both have cradles for the HTC Hero.
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: Re: CoPilot for Android |
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| Darren wrote: | | owzat wrote: | Thanks Jason for an informative review. One question: how did you secure your Android unit (Hero or Magic?) to dashboard or did you not perhaps do so?
Tim |
Brodit and Carcomm both have cradles for the HTC Hero. |
mine fits nicely in my old HTC Artemis (T-Mobile MDA Compact III) Brodit holder - how cheap am I?!
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Darren
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:16 pm Post subject: Re: CoPilot for Android |
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| MaFt wrote: | | how cheap am I?! |
Is that a trick question? 
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MaFt
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| Posted: Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:54 pm Post subject: Re: CoPilot for Android |
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| Darren wrote: | | MaFt wrote: | | how cheap am I?! |
Is that a trick question? |
I dare you to answer without straying off topic  |
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MaFt, youre very cheap!
Anyway, anyone using CPL8 on Android? There was an update yesterday and I cannot find anything about it. |
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| Yeah, I got that update, but it hasn't fixed any of the safety cam issues. I may try it again in landscape mode to see if that's improved at all. |
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timbouk
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| Wiggo wrote: | | Yeah, I got that update, but it hasn't fixed any of the safety cam issues. I may try it again in landscape mode to see if that's improved at all. |
What issues are you experiencing? |
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| Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Wiggo wrote: | | Yeah, I got that update, but it hasn't fixed any of the safety cam issues. I may try it again in landscape mode to see if that's improved at all. |
As far as I know it fixed an issue on HTC Hero where it would hang on exiting the application.
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Wiggo
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| timbo_uk wrote: | | Wiggo wrote: | | Yeah, I got that update, but it hasn't fixed any of the safety cam issues. I may try it again in landscape mode to see if that's improved at all. |
What issues are you experiencing? |
1. Some cameras don't display, but I do get the audio warnings
2. 'Missing' cameras sometimes do show if I switch to portrait mode
3. Some cameras give multiple (3-7) warnings
4. I pass two cameras on one stretch of road. In landscape, neither display but in portrait they both show. As I get closer to them, the one furthest away vanishes, but gives me 4 audio warnings as I pass it.
There are some other usability grizzles, but I can cope with them for now. |
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