chocolate_o_brian

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Right, rather than go out and spend mucho dollah on a seperate device, I'm gonna take advantage of the built in GSP on my iPhone 3GS. I wanna buy a good SatNav app from the app. store but I'm unsure of what to get.

My requirements are simple really...

• Cheapish
• Simple to use
• Instructions before they happen
• Good screen layout
• Only need UK maps really
• Cheapish

Now I've found three apps...

• NDrive UK & Ireland (4* rating [216 ratings] and is only £9.99)
• CoPilot Live UK & Ireland (4* rating [538 ratings] and costs £26.99)
• TomTom UK & Ireland (3.5* rating [185 ratings] and costs £54.99)

Obviously interested in the NDrive one for a tenner, but will pay a little more for a decent and reliable SatNav.

What has everyone else got?

JackClark

The only thing that would bother me would be the volume, I'm just not sure it's loud enough, the Tom Tom car holder thingie solves this but it's £100 on top.

Jaybird-UK

CoPilot live is awesome - I have full euro version and use it everyday.

I have also used tomtom on iPhone and prefer the copilot, at £26.99 worth every penny and you can get quidco back from the itunes store so thats a further 4% off the price

chocolate_o_brian

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Luckily I have a quite little 106 to drive But I know what you're saying. My old SE W960i had TomTom and I could never hear George Dubya talking to me. iPhone's speaker is louder I'm sure.

Very tempted now you've said that. But why such differences in prices though?? £10-£26-£55

r32

Go to Halfrauds or on line and buy a proper Tomtom, your almost there on price any way.
Remember the old adage "you only get what you pay for" (works most times)

Jaybird-UK

Copilot on Techradar
TomTom on Techradar
For me £26 is a steal, £60 on the other hand is fast approaching a dedicated SatNav and quite frankly a rip off from TomTom since you are providing the hardware and they are only delivering by download so their actual costs are much lower than a physical device.


Finally this will help make your mind up, a side by side comparison of them both

copilot live vs tomtom/

Mus

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a mate of mine has his iphone jail broken and it doesnt cost him a thing

JackClark

That's because he's stolen the software, which makes him a thief. Not something to be proud of and I would hope he wouldn't want you telling everyone.

chocolate_o_brian

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Super, thanks for sharing that.

Now I would prefer a legitimate SatNav application if thats ok with you and your mate.



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I'm looking at paying a little more than the cheapest and getting the CoPilot as it seems a very good app. with decent feeback (reviews being something I always look for when purchasing).

Markus

Don't forget to look at Navigon as well. It's not cheap but it may tick all your boxes. I've used it a couple of times and found it pretty accurate.

ScoobyDoo555

FWIW, TomTom on iPhone is rubbish. and FAR too expensive once you include the cradle as well.

For £25 you would be a FOOL not to look at Co-Pilot Live 8.

Imho, it's better than than TomTom. And for the money, can't be beaten. Speed cams/limits are all up-datable too. And the sound is very loud.

Fantastic package. The *only* picky thing is the lack of integration to the iphone qwerty keyboard (got its own proprietary system)





Gotta be worth a punt.

Dan

ScoobyDoo555

ps - got Co-Pilot Live 8 on my iphone.

Torquemada

Nah, not true, had Co-Pilot for free on an old HTC phone and it was excellent. Sometimes you're just paying for a name

ScoobyDoo555

Gotta agree. £25 is the BARGAIN of the Century.

Granted, I had it on Wifey's Android phone as a free download, and yes, it was shyte. But in all fairness, it was a early version.

Chucked "8" on my iphone, and it quite happily navigated me home from the ar$e-end of Bristol back up to the countryside of North Herefordshire.

Sweet.

chrisowe

I have Co-Pilot on my Iphone and it seems to take ages to get a fix, and gets stuck on determining satellite position which makes it unusable. I'm not saying it's a bad bit of software just that the GPS in the Iphone is probably to blame.

Mikej857

Ive got to add my 2p's worth...

Ive got both Tom Tom and Copilot on my phone and have to say after using TomTom initially I found it tended to take you in the wrong direction and when using it recently it just ended the route 3 miles before the right destination!!!

I found that Copilot is reliable and has every feature that TomTom does and is very easy to use.

lordharding

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I think tom tom on the iPhone is so overpriced and the trouble is it's just too small maybe I'm An old git and eyes are fading
that's. Why I personally would go out and get a tom tom. Xl for the bigger screen for around about £119 as it's better if you use it a lot

Co pilot seems good for the money though but when you are lost And driving

Get a big screen

sparkykev

I was looking at the NDrive satnav for my iphone, it has great reviews, but with the rubbish volume from the phone, i'm not sure if its worth a punt.
There's no way i'd pay £100 for a cradle, you can get a good tomtom for that (which i have anyway)
Does anyone use iphone satnav without the cradle and be able to hear it at motorway speeds?

chocolate_o_brian

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As I mentioned earlier, I don't think I'd need a cradle/speaker for it as when my SE was hooked up to it's GPS reciever/cradle, it never used to use the cradles speaker unless on a hands free call. I could hear it just about even when I had the straight through exhaust on the 205 @ 70mph.

The iPhone speaker is slightly louder so I don't think i'll struggle too much.

For the record, I bought this off eBay to hold/charge the phone whilst driving - bargain http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...=STRK:MEWNX:IT

JackClark

Hmm, £54 for the Tom Tom holder, now I'm tempted, it's easily the best mount out there.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002YMGE1...SIN=B002YMGE16

Scotsman

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Another vote from me for CoPilot live - superb piece of software.