Is there a truck version?
I have the standard UK maps on my Android HTC Wildfire.
So then, Beccles to Plymouth via Bexley Heath, London. 372 Miles or something like that. My cousin tells me to use a diversion which is after Chelmsford to go down the A13 and meet the M25 at the Dartford Bridge to miss any que’s there might be so I go for “find location on map”, select the A13 at some annoying roundabout section, go to the route planner and select optimise stops, everything is in order. The screen is nice and clear, it tells me what type of junction is coming up, how far away and what the junction or next road is called, and it has the next turn above and how far on so I know what lane to select to be ready for the second junction.
So already it’s far more useful than my Garmin Nuvi and has a much more responsive screen even though it has a plastic protector.
Set to quickest it selects motorways over A’s and A’s over B’s. And this is just normal mode, I didn’t even try RV mode. You can customise what type of travel you want, what type of route, and what information you want on the screen too. I don’t believe there is a truck version for Android yet but the route is so easy to customise so if you know where you want to go to get around something it’s not a problem.
Picked up my cousin in Bexley Heath and continued my journey. Direction was to go through central London and 13:30, so we ignored that and went back to the M25, it quickly adjusted and went with us. We only struggled right at the end with finding my other cousins house on the Barbican. It did turn out to be an address only a postman could know.
Got me back to London with no issues. It actually took the M25 route isntead of central London unlike on the outward journey. From Bexley Heath to Enfield, the fastest route was M25, but the shortest was over to the Black wall tunnel and then up to Enfield, 1 minute difference but 20 miles shorter, and at 20:00 I obviously went with the central route.
Route selection is fantastic. It’s very accurate. If you don’t know the address but know where it is you can pick the point on the map and save that as a favourite. I don’t know if the voices are any good, they drive me nuts on any device and I prefer music. But I was able to run the sat nav, my music and receive calls all on my phone with out any issues. On the way to Plymouth my phone did switch itself off twice but I don’t know if it has anything to do with the sat nav, as essentially it is a small computer and therefor has these moments. It had no problems on the way back though.
The GPS finds my location quicker than any sat nav I used so you are up an running in no time. Plus it knows tunnels, so it doesn’t panick that you’ve disappeared off the face of the earth and spend 15 minutes finding you again. If you do lose gps, go to the power widget, switch off gps and turn it back on again, go back to copilot and you’re off.
I think it’s the best sat Nav I’ve used and I’ve used a couple of versions of Tom Tom, Garmin, Road Angel and some others not worth remembering. Copilot is my favourite. £27 I think for UK and Ireland. £40 for all of Europe.
Buy a cradle, run your phone through your stereo and you’ve got everything on one device right in front of you. Just don’t forget to buy a charger (make sure the cradle leaves room for the charger, lots of bundles on amazon don’t actually go together).
In short I’ll be selling my not so customisable, less responsive, far more expensive but not as expensive as tom tom - Garmin Nuvi
Hope this helps. For use on Iphone I guess it’s the same.
