Copilot on Android - simply crap?

[joebongo]

Wants to divert me round a straight road for no reason I can fathom (more than once on my regular route so not a fluke), traffic seemed to be quite happy to take me into a 9mph 2 mile stretch that it detected but didn't warn me about and the speed camera warnings sometimes come and sometimes don't. Not to mention not even being aware of some cameras which have been in for many years.

What's the score?

All I want is the features of TomTom I liked the most (can't get it on Android by the way).

These were the TMC traffic (via mobile networks not via a TMC receiver), speed cameras and half-sensible routing.

[jjones]

have you tried google maps/navigation. free and awesome in my experience and you can use camera locating free app also (can't recall the name)

[-crookedtail-]

I have the same thing on my iPhone and will agree it makes some seemingly random routes on ocassion. Not bad for £25 though so I wont complain too much.

[joebongo]

I'm gutted with it to be honest at the moment. Last week it took me in a 2 mile circle instead of a straight road when we went to a village church fete for some tea and cake.

Snag with Google is lack of traffic warnings and not storing the maps locally. I have a big data plan but when the signal drops then my journey does as well.

I tried to install the Navigon trial to see if that was any better and it installed Navigon Select which is a free version for T-Mob Germany users.

Destinator doesn't do traffic as far as I can tell.

Running out of ideas - any Android people know what to do here?

I love my sat nav and at this rate I am looking down the barrel of an iPhone4 as that's got TomTom but I really don't want to go there if I can avoid it.

Edited by joebongo on Friday 3rd September 08:39

[chriscpritchard]

joebongo said:

I'm gutted with it to be honest at the moment. Last week it took me in a 2 mile circle instead of a straight road when we went to a village church fete for some tea and cake.

Snag with Google is lack of traffic warnings and not storing the maps locally. I have a big data plan but when the signal drops then my journey does as well.

I tried to install the Navigon trial to see if that was any better and it installed Navigon Select which is a free version for T-Mob Germany users.

Destinator doesn't do traffic as far as I can tell.

Running out of ideas - any Android people know what to do here?

I love my sat nav and at this rate I am looking down the barrel of an iPhone4 as that's got TomTom but I really don't want to go there if I can avoid it.

Edited by joebongo on Friday 3rd September 08:39

Google maps navigation caches the maps, so as long as you have signal at the start of the journey the journey will stay up as long as you don't take a detour while out of signal

[LMC]

I got navigation on my Nexus One (thats all its called, the icon is a blue arrow), and it works a treat. I think its a google app. And free, which is nice !

[TheDetailDoctor]

LMC said:

I got navigation on my Nexus One (thats all its called, the icon is a blue arrow), and it works a treat. I think its a google app. And free, which is nice !

Does Nav store the maps on the phone? Need a decent sat nav for the German trip at the end of the month.