CoPilot satellite navigation review.



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CoPilot live | Smartphone with Bluetooth GPS antenna is a powerful, ultra-portable and affordable satellite navigation system for Microsoft Smartphones that makes journeys by road easier and safer. Just reach for your phone, key-in your destination and CoPilot will take you there, providing detailed turn-by-turn directions on-screen and spoken right to the door.

The ultimate driver's assistant
Containing the same detailed maps supplied by NAVTEQ as used by the majority of in-dash sat nav systems, CoPilot Live contains detailed colourful address-level maps of UK and Ireland all easily accessible on a Smartphone. Whether planning a trip in advance, getting your bearings in an unfamiliar city or driving across continents, a CoPilot Live-enabled mobile phone gives you local knowledge, everywhere.

Incorporating award-winning, commercial-grade routing developed over 25 years by ALK Technologies, CoPilot live | Smartphone is the navigation system that you can trust to get you to your destination, wherever you need to go, whatever vehicle you are driving.

Easy to Use and install
CoPilot live | Smartphone's simple user interface and menus make it an incredibly easy Satellite Navigation system to learn and get driving with. Planning your route and entering trips is straightforward. Just enter in a street number, postcode, town, Outlook contact or one of thousands of points of interest and start driving. There's no need to input your starting point as a CoPilot-enabled Smartphone takes advantage of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Satellites to pinpoint your exact location and continuously calculates the route to your destination.

Setup is easy and quick. Just insert the supplied pre-loaded card into the phone and CoPilot Live will self-install. There's no need for lengthy maps downloads or complex configurations

Clear and safe Guidance
Designed with driver safety and adherence to legal requirements as the priority, CoPilot Live Smartphone avoids the need to touch the phone while driving, providing clear voice directions and at-a-glance turn instructions on-screen. Estimated time of arrival, distance to the next turn and destination is always displayed. Numerous customisable options include low-glare night mode, fastest/shortest route and avoid tolls.

CoPilot live automatically zooms to the appropriate level as you approach a turn. 3D map view, and night mode makes the display customisable to driving conditions, but without compromising driver safety. A large arrow emphasises junctions and highlights the road ahead in map view.

Switching between different map views is easy through an easily accessible menu. Choose from 'Driver Safety', 'Where am I', 'Entire Trip', 'Next Turn', 3D perspective and Turn by Turn Itinerary all at the touch of a button.

3D View

Night mode

Enhanced map

Map View optios

Live Communications
CoPilot Live Smartphone takes full advantage of the seamless wireless connectivity provided by Windows Mobile-based Smartphones. Live tracking, messaging and new destination sending is included as standard, enabling businesses to keep in touch with their mobile employees via a secure web site.

With CoPilot live | Smartphone you can send tracking Invitations to colleagues, family and friends from your phone, and enable them to track your progress, view your eta and even send you messages wherever you are!

CoPilot live | Smartphone also incorporates real-time route-specific traffic alerts, that not only warns about traffic incidents ahead, but automatically routes around hold-ups too.

Additional options and features
• Turn by turn guidance on-screen and spoken. Loud and clear female voice directions mean that you don't even need to look at the screen

• Dynamic route recalculation. CoPilot Live constantly works out the best way to your destination based on your current location. If you miss a turn, CoPilot Live instantly works out the best new route, rather than simply trying to get you back to the original route. Its impossible to get lost.

• The Latest Maps - Including the M6 Toll Road. CoPilot Live incorporates the latest street maps from NAVTEQ, including the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, as well as more detailed coverage of Ireland and continental Europe. Thousands of new and updated points of interest have been added and updated, such as cinemas, restaurants, car parks and golf courses. Unlike other navigation systems, CoPilot live | Smartphone includes the UK's M6 Toll road, and all of the many changed roads around it.

• Multiple driving modes. CoPilot live | Smartphone offers 4 navigational modes, including turn by turn voice-guided driver safety mode, planning mode that enables trip planning before travelling or for instances where no GPS signal is available; walking mode that draws an 'as the crow flies' line to your destination, and navigating mode that simply shows the current location on a detailed map.

• Route-over highlighting that highlights the correct road ahead clearly and visibly.

• Advanced desktop software that provides seamless custom points of interest management; updated maps, and ability to download entire regions using the data download wizard.

• Detour and Avoid buttons route around traffic congestion or known trouble spots with one-touch

• User adjustable features, including ability to adjust distance to turn and the ability to customise CoPilot Live's display.

Every CoPilot system is built around the same award-winning core technology: the fastest possible calculation of routes, best possible data compression, safe information display and the most accurate maps. Quite simply CoPilot provides guidance to depend on.

Borderless routing door to door across Europe*. Unlike other navigation systems CoPilot Live treats Europe as a seamless area. Calculating cross-border trips is effortless. CoPilot Live creates a corridor of data along the whole trip to download only the data you need.

Superior data compression means easy map management and faster data downloads. Unlike other navigation systems that need up to 7 separate CDs to store all the maps of Europe, CoPilot Live requires only 650MB for the whole of Europe, which fits onto one CD and can be downloaded to a single storage card.

The fastest route calculation and recalculation available. Unlike other navigation systems that can take over a minute to calculate journeys, CoPilot Live works out lengthy trips and routes across Europe in seconds, every time even on a Smartphone. If you miss a turn, Copilot Live immediately works out the best new route. Getting lost is impossible.

Pre-configured 256MB QuickStart card included. Unlike other navigation systems that require lengthy, complicated data downloads before use, CoPilot Live's QuickStart card with maps pre-loaded mean that you can take it out of the box install and start driving immediately

Powerful planning on desktop or mobile device
• Data download wizard makes selecting and downloading map areas easy
• Calculate journeys in advance from start to finish on mobile device or desktop
• Desktop software for planning, producing printed itineries, and downloading maps

Designed with safety in mind. By default, CoPilot Live only displays a map as you approach a turn, to avoid distracting the driver. It is however possible to view a full screen map at all times if preferred.

Takes you to the door. CoPilot Live even know the side of the road your destination is on.

Point of Interest and speed camera alerts. CoPilot Live tells you about POIs as you approach them. If you import the UK speed camera database, CoPilot Live will warn you as you approach each.

Customisable Display enables you to choose what information is displayed on screen to suit your preferences and the prevailing driving conditions.

Multi stop journeys just key in all the places you need to go to and start driving! You can leave CoPilot to work out the route.

Accurate Estimated Time of Arrival that takes into account road types along the whole trip.

Instant divert that finds an alternative route around congestion at the touch of a button. CoPilot knows all of the back streets and shortcuts!

One touch 'take me home' and 'take me to work' buttons. Navigate to the most common destinations at the press of a button

*License to download European maps to pocket PC available at additional cost

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