[mardukeme]

Originally Posted by ckl_88

I got a chance to play around with IGO8 this morning and I have to say that it's a pretty slick program. Few things that I like about this program is that it refreshes the information constantly including maps, compass, speed, etc. Constantly means that the map movement is very smooth and the compass moves like a real compass does... In contrast to Garmin, map updates are every second making it very jerky.

Text to speech is very slick too. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the voice wasn't robotic at all when pronouncing street names.

I haven't read the manual yet but one of the problems I have is making calls from the program itself. For example, when I found a POI, it shows me the address and phone number. Then along the bottom of the screen, it's got a toolbar like set of icons - one of which is a phone icon - but it's always disabled... hence I cannot make a call from there. I have to memorize the number, press the send-key to bring up the dialer, enter the number and press send to call.

The other thing is that when navigating, it shows a lot of POI's along the route. It's nice to show these POI's but how does one find out what the POI is? For example, I came across a POI with a cross in it. I figured it was some kind of medical thing which I didn't know existed there. I wanted to find out if it was a hospital, dental or whatever, but I couldn't find a quick way of bringing that information up.

Any IGO experts out there that can help me out here?


Thanks.

I am no expert but if you use the sys.txt file I have posted in the previous thread it will allow you to dial a POI #.