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Sygic is pretty expensive so it better be a lot better than CoPilot. I have both and it is a *lot* better. OTOH, I thought that for less than ten bucks buying CoPilot was a no-brainer. Still do... -- Pete Cresswell |
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On Thursday, November 28, 2013 8:16:35 AM UTC-5, wrote:
https://www.google.com/#q=COMPARE+CE...+TO+GARMIN+GPS ................ I use Streets/Trips plus Garmin nroute in topo. Cell phone storage ! S/T has serious visual problems needing rethink. I complained, answer was: no disc space left....so where's the 8gb card stupid ? The distance to go bar and viz info should be vertical on left for driving laptop use age. But how does Anroid mapping show direction of travel in real time ? If the vehicle symbol has directional shape, does the shape change when your speed decreases to stop ? Change shape is unnnngh expletive as I'm occupied in stopping not screen watching then bloorup no direction indication... no disc space, he said. |
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On Thursday, November 28, 2013 9:42:53 AM UTC-5, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per : https://www.google.com/#q=COMPARE+CE...+TO+GARMIN+GPS If I had known about that when I bought Sygic, I might have gotten the Garmin product instead - being familiar with it's UI on the dedicated device I had. One little thing about Garmin over Sygic is how they handle route re-calculation. Garmin says straight-up "Recalculating Route". Sygic tells you to make a U-Turn, then starts telling you Turn Left or Turn Rite with the obvious intent of getting you back on route. After about a half mile, it just quietly recomputes the route. No announcement... the route just changes. I like Garmin's approach better. OTOH, a few things I like about Sygic: - Tunable turn warnings. I've got mine set to announce pending turns/exits a half mile in advance, then a quarter mile, and then just before. - Tunable speed limit alarms. Somehow Sygic knows what the speed limit is and I have it set to go "Ding" when I go more than five mph over the limit. - Specific exit descriptions. CoPilot will just say "Exit right" just before an exit. This is problematic when several exits are close together. Sygic says "Second Exit..." and gives a description like "Route 30 East". - Browse-friendly map. CoPilot wants to know where you are planning to go and you have to kind of fight Mother Nature to just browse a map. With Sygic, you can go right into using it as just a map presentation device... and the screen redraws are *fast* - unlike Osmand+ which seems to take forever to render a screen as you move around on the map. - Fuzzy destinations. CoPilot wants a street address...period. Tough luck if you don't know the exact house number. Sygic has a number of options including just a street name. -- Pete Cresswell ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and what is the vehicle symbols onscreen shape...does shape change when stopping/stopped ? if shaped, does the shape point with direction of travel ? voice instructions with S/T vary with year of issue. Tho we expect refinement, that isnot herd here. as you experience varied attempts at traffic/road engineering, hear more misleading voice directions. regional differences in accuracy are apparent...eg San Diego is AAA but not Seattle. / |
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