Pogo Drive. Any experiences good or bad?

[Red Firecracker]

Hi All,

With 25 days remaining on my Origin B2 subscription I am thinking of upgrading to the Pogo Drive, mainly as Sat Naff was a touch useful on the trip down to Le Mans last year.

So, anybody have one and care to share your experiences, both good and bad? Prices seem to be fairly consistent at £250, so I'm guessing there's no reason to shop around too much.

Many thanks

Kelvin

[Networx]

Hi Kelvin,

I have to say Pogo Drive is an excellent system, especially the speed camera side of things.

I can do you a really good deal on trading in your b2 against the Pogo Drive, good thing is they will carry over your subscription.

Cheers

Derek

[Red Firecracker]

Networx said:

Hi Kelvin,

I have to say Pogo Drive is an excellent system, especially the speed camera side of things.

I can do you a really good deal on trading in your b2 against the Pogo Drive, good thing is they will carry over your subscription.

Cheers

Derek

Hi Derek,

Thanks for the reply.

I'll drop you an email about the good deal! I've only 25 days left on the B2 subscription hence my thoughts of upgrading. I did send them (Pogo) an email asking if they had any deals and I've not heard anything back.......

Cheers

Kelvin

ETA: YHM.

Edited by Red Firecracker on Saturday 30th August 11:33

[jimmyb]

Hi Kevin

I am one of the huge pogo fans. Generally I think its a cracking piece of kit.Europe maps are standard speed cam system works better than origin it also has mobile alerts now as well. Mapping is generally very good as well. Only real problem at the moment is that it still to the best of my knowledge doesnt have a travel via function.

[dapprman]

Actually the mobile alerts is one thing that seriously pisses me off about mine. There's no option to turn them off, I get warnings for places I know are not used for mobile cameras (including 3 supposed spots under a mile from my home) and, and this is the real kicker, deleting then does nothing, the next sync and they are back.

Before the mobile alerts were added I thought it was a superb kit with just a few downsides (screen reflection of the silver top is rather bad at night, and having to drive with it in a car for a half hour plus before syncing if you do not have an optional mains charger), but repeatedly getting annoying false alerts, especially when I've tried to delete them a half dozen times, is wearing me down.

One thing about the Euro maps. Does anyone know if you can plan a route across multiple countries (as I could on my old Navman), or are you limited to just one map at a time ?

[jimmyb]

dapprman said:

Actually the mobile alerts is one thing that seriously pisses me off about mine. There's no option to turn them off, I get warnings for places I know are not used for mobile cameras (including 3 supposed spots under a mile from my home) and, and this is the real kicker, deleting then does nothing, the next sync and they are back.

Before the mobile alerts were added I thought it was a superb kit with just a few downsides (screen reflection of the silver top is rather bad at night, and having to drive with it in a car for a half hour plus before syncing if you do not have an optional mains charger), but repeatedly getting annoying false alerts, especially when I've tried to delete them a half dozen times, is wearing me down.

One thing about the Euro maps. Does anyone know if you can plan a route across multiple countries (as I could on my old Navman), or are you limited to just one map at a time ?

I agree to an extent about the "false alerts" but in truth they arent really as its not a live sighting its there to warn you about known mobile camera sites. On one hand it bothers me that it beeps sometimes when there is no camera but at the same time unlike almost all the other units out there it tells me what im looking for so its not really a false alert it simply means i am slightly more wary in the area that it beeps.

As to route planning I dont believe so. I have discussed this with them but have heard nothing new for a while so should give em a call soon.

[JimmyGreek]

I'm fairly happy with the satnav functionality on my Pogo Drive. It would be nice if you were able to select alternate routes or avoid certain roads, maybe they'll add that in future.

I mentioned the mobile alert issue to Pogo and initially I was told that these would be fine tuned. But that was four months ago and nothing's changed so far.

I also get a 70mph mobile alert on a 40mph road near to where I live. Admittedly this happens soon after I've driven under a motorway flyover, but it's several hundred metres after. I thought GPS was meant to be more accurate than that. Oh well, maybe I'm driving too fast!

I've had other problems with the unit. These have included the software crashing, the power cable not working and roads appearing on the screen in unexpected colours. Pogo have resolved these promptly and given me free extensions to my subscription to compensate me.

It would be nice if they'd fine tune the mobile alerts which would make their 'Obsessed with accuracy' claim more believable.