Satisfied with Route 66?

inshadow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 7

I have been searching for a good and non-expensive GPS solution for my HTC P4350(Herald) PocketPC Phone.

I found that the Route 66 Navigate 7 kit with bluetooth GPS was pretty cheap (around 900 danish kr which is about 150$).

I'm a bit concerned if I will be satisfied though. My main headache is if it will plan the routes well, and if rerouting works quick enough.
Someone wrote this about Route 66 Navigate 7: "Selected a route for a journey today completely different to every other Satnav system, opting to use an urban B road instead of major A roads.".

What is your experience with these two issues?
Does it almost always calculate a resonable route?
Does the rerouting kick in too slowly?
...

Thanks in advance!

/Stig

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject:

I have found the Route 66 software very good, the navigate to a specific point takes a bit of getting used to, my early copy of this software didn't have full 7 digit postcode, so I tended to navigate by POI, the newer releases have full full UK postcode (although I suspect this isn't an issue for yourself - location etc).
Re-Routing - I have had one or two problems with as detailed in the review I wrote last year, but overall the package works well, see Here for the write up - Mike

inshadow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks for a quick answer Mike! :-)

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:41 pm Post subject:

To be honest it was a one off event, I have re-run that exact same route a number of times since and the software has not locked to the M25, why it did it when compiling notes for a review is anyone’s guess.
It could have been the hardware running out of memory or any number of issues, I just found it quite amusing to be honest when it performed in this way - but it since this occasion it has worked very well, the TMC data over GPRS (watch you connection charges) works very well - Mike

matt1971 · Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2007 11:17 am Post subject:

inshadow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 7

inshadow · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 01, 2007 Posts: 7

Thanks Matt and Mike
You have been very helpful :-)

I'll let you know about my experiences when I have bought a copy for my self.

MikC · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 11

Bought it about 3 months ago and in UK always gives great direct routes but if I decide to change routes is very quick at recalculating. Mines is running on an Orange SPV M600.

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