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Old 12-06-2007, 01:50 PM
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Smile What's your FAVORITE GPS/NAVIGATION software/solution for the 6800/Mogul/Titan...?

I know we've covered many different GPS/Navigation applications on different devices,
but now I'm curious to what everyone is using, specifically on the 6800/Mogul/Titan?

What is your FAVORITE GPS/Navigation software/solution...?
What makes it your favorite...?
What other software/solutions did you try, and what did you like/dislike...?

Since this is posted in the Titan forum, let's make sure all responses are using an external GPS, and not another device that has internal GPS already working.

Looking forward to some great responses on this subject.
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Old 12-06-2007, 01:59 PM
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I'll bite -
For routing and directions, I've used TT6 and iguidance 4 on my mogul and although neither is perfect, i find iguidance 4 a bit more pleasing on the eye and slightly better usability-wise.

For POI I prefer googlemaps over TT 6 or IGuidance because the database is better supported in terms of updates. Once i get to where i need to go, i fire up googlemaps and start searching for restaurants, shopping, etc. I always find the results to be more comprehensive.

I'm using a Holux m1200 BT GPS receiver. It's small and battery life is great - best thing is it's user-replaceable as it uses a standard nokia Li-On cell phone battery.
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:00 PM
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I use iGuidance 4 and strongly recommend it. I have tried many, including TomTom and Mapopolis. For me, iG is the most useful and intuitive of them all, the most visually pleasing, and the just-plain coolest.

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Old 12-06-2007, 03:25 PM
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I've tried TomTom, iGuidance, and iGo.

iGo is a nice application, very finger friendly. It looks pretty good visually as well and seems pretty polished. What I didn't like is it doesn't turn my BT on automatically (which TT does) One nice thing about iGo is it seemed to calculate and recalculate routes much faster than TT or iGuidance. One thing that did bug me was my contacts weren't entered into the POI correctly.

TomTom is also pretty finger friendly as well. Routing is pretty quick, finding POI is a lot more intuitive than iGuidance (much more options to find what you are looking for) Search is fast fast fast too. I liked how TT turned on my BT for me when the application opens as well, that way I don't have to leave BT on all the time.

iGuidance isn't as finger friendly as the others. Text-to-speech is sweet though. I don't like POI at all and the application doesn't seem to have many options. POI is straight up slow. Also doesn't turn BT on like TT does.

Overall I enjoy Tomtom the most.
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Old 12-06-2007, 03:44 PM
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I use TomTom when the place that I'm going is an know address, mostly because the GUI is layed out well, works better when driving. But when it comes to finding POI's there are a lot of things that it can't find and I hate the fact that you cannot look at where the POI is before selecting it, so I find myself using Live Search most of the time.


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iGo is a nice application, very finger friendly. It looks pretty good visually as well and seems pretty polished. What I didn't like is it doesn't turn my BT on automatically (which TT does)
There is a easy fix for that. Assuming your using the 2.08/09/17 ROM and not the 2.16
You just need Mortscript and ToggleBTh.
Here is the Script that I use.

Code:
B = RegRead ("HKLM", "Software\oem\bluetooth\" , "BTcomstatus" )

If ( B = 0 )
Run( "\Program Files\ToggleBTh.exe" )
Runwait( "Inset the path of your progam here" )
Run( "\Program Files\ToggleBTh.exe" )

Else
If ( B = 1 )
Run( "Inset the path of your progam here" )
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Which one announces turn by turn with the actual road name?

I know some just say "turn left" and others would say "turn left on <street name>" imo, thats the most important feature.
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Old 12-06-2007, 04:20 PM
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Which one announces turn by turn with the actual road name?

I know some just say "turn left" and others would say "turn left on <street name>" imo, thats the most important feature.
IGuidance 4 does this, pretty well too. But it's a little unusual in that it uses a computer voice for the guidance information, and then overlays a human voice for road names. Helps to insure pronunciation is correct, but some don't like the constant voice changes. I didn't mind it.

A question for those running this on the Mogul. Insurance just swapped me into the Mogul from my 6700. It was working fine there. When I dug out my disks and reinstalled it on the Mogul, it doesn't work quite right. It tracks everything, but doesn't accept a route properly. It goes through all the prompts, address, POI, whatever, but when I hit Nav (or Add) it just "pretends" to add it but doesn't. No route becomes active. Any clues? Was there an update I missed? I haven't really had time to dig into it.
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There is a easy fix for that. Assuming your using the 2.08/09/17 ROM and not the 2.16
You just need Mortscript and ToggleBTh.
Here is the Script that I use.

Sweet, thanks for the info. I'm going to check it out.
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Cool Re: What's your FAVORITE GPS/NAVIGATION software/solution for the 6800/Mogul/Titan...

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Originally Posted by mobilejray View Post
I know we've covered many different GPS/Navigation applications on different devices,
but now I'm curious to what everyone is using, specifically on the 6800/Mogul/Titan?

What is your FAVORITE GPS/Navigation software/solution...?
What makes it your favorite...?
What other software/solutions did you try, and what did you like/dislike...?

Since this is posted in the Titan forum, let's make sure all responses are using an external GPS, and not another device that has internal GPS already working.

Looking forward to some great responses on this subject.
Thanks!
iGuidance 4... secondary to....
fast response, decent memory management (never had an out of memory error or a crash, complete US/Canada on one Map 1.3GB, Works with external and internal GPS (with GPSgate), Text to Speech for street names and voice prompts are the best in the pocket PC GPS software, does not need active phone signal to work i.e. no data plan needed, Most accurate US maps (Navtech none the less), 3D view has street names visible at all times, POI database at 6 million, with TTS does not need screen in view to easily follow directions and I have now taken to leaving it in the front cup holder or dash and with the volume turned up can hear it clearly through the mogul speaker or via BT headset.

Have tried the following starting with my old Compaq Ipaq (circa 2000) and replaced all with iGuidance 4.....

iguidance 2, 3 No TTS
Destinator 2, 3, 4 Poor 3D views, no street names, so so voice prompts, no TTS, good UK maps
TomTom 5,6 Crummy and inaccurate US maps, awful voice prompts with major delays
Pocket Copilot Overall poor maps, sound
Pharos GPS Outdated and now out of date in most categories
iGo Slow, buggy, memory hog, no TTS when last checked
Garmin XT Nothing good to say
Mapopolis Out of business in 2008
Google Maps and Live Need an internet connection, not as smooth in use, great for address lookup or POI checks as they are the most upto date
Sprint Navigation Needs a monthly fee, needs and internet connection

I have spent quite a large sum of money over the years on Pharos, Destinator, iGuidance and TomTom purchases and can attest that unless you have run each of these and tried a long or even a short trip in an unfamiliar setting, you should not rave about the only one that you have purchased. Each is pretty good in its own right. It is just that when I have run each of these over the last 8 years that I have settled on iGuidance 4. I keep checking to see if a competitor ups the ante with a new feature set or better programming, but to date nothing has surfaced.

iGuidance install cab and maps now resides on my 6GB microsd card, and is an autoinstall following any ROM update that I do, as I find it indispensible.
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