Their support is also awful – they take 2-3 weeks to answer emails. As I said, avoid.

g

1st of all, the traffic most of the time not connecting to the service, and hardly notice it never changed it’s routes (even the traffic is very bad) TOMTOM used to take me different way to work almost everyday, saving me at least 20 mins each way to work every day. Traffic on this is nothing compare with the tomtom one.
BTW, if you want to see where the traffic is on the map, it’s joke.

2ndly, whenever you have a call, the app exits, and when you finish the call, the app starts again, and you will be lost …. windows phone can do 20 things at the same time, this one does one thing at a time sadly.

3rdly, fuel prices are way out, I went to add some fuel yesterday, you guessed what happened, I went to the most expensive one but this app seems to believe it’s the cheapest one around.

it’s a joke, and NO NO NO everyone……

Moving from a WInMO device with Tom Tom to iphone forced me to buy a new satnav package. Reading a couple of great reviews and being wowed by the aggressive pricing of the Co-pilot, I decided to take the plunge.

My high hopes bolstered by an impressive presentation were soon dashed by discovering the limitations of the software. I can no longer display the current time, travel time remaining, ETA, current speed and speed limit simultaniously. I can only select 2 things to display or loop through a limited selection.

The GPS performance has let me down repeatedly on trials (luckily on familiar roads), for example, when I reach turn marker points slowly in traffic, the software thinks I have stopped and displays me as stationary even when I have passed the turn marker by upto half a mile. If I decide to veer off the selected route, the software gets confused and will continue to show me on its selected route for upto half a minute, then hang for another half a minute until it works out where I am. It has occasionally thought I have missed a turn and recalculated a different route when I am still approaching the original turn.

The current speed is not real time. It appears to calculate it over an average over a 20 second window. This means I can accelerate from standstill upto 40mph and it thinks I am doing 5mph. Then If I start to break and slow down it thinks I am speeding up. This is not currently a major problem as the speed camera warnings are not working yet. Even if they were, I could not trust the device to warn me against breaking a speed limit.

I hope the GPS issues are not device related so they can be fixed with software updates. Incidently, I mount the iphone to the windscreen to get the best satelite reception without having to fit an external GPS receiver.

I really want to like this software, but until the GPS issues are fixed I am having to use my old phone for satnav which works perfectly.

@Sean:
In a YouTube video review of the TomTom cradle, the reviewer said it does indeed work with other sat nav software such as Navigon and CoPilot. In fact, he proved it by dong so in the video review. So you’re good to go

My problem is that CoPilot seems to have hijacked my Outlook contacts from the iPhone contacts app into the CoPilots contacts, leaving me with a blank list of contacts on the Iphone. I have tried re-syncing, re-set and restore. I have removed and re-installed Itunes, all to no avail.

Som y contacts are all listed in CoPilot, but not in the Iphone contacts folder.

i have just this morning emailed Alk customer support for advice!

Cheers and Beers.

Terry in Sunderland

I’m contemplating buying co-pilot. Is it £26 flat rate all inclusive or do you have to pay subscription charges?

Also, is it any good for countryside? I live in London but my parents are in the sticks.

Thank you.