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iGuidance Version 2.1.2 for Pocket PC
Routing
New! Enhanced memory management for longer distance routing
New! Improved bluetooth connectivity
New! 4 pre-defined map color themes
New! Single click POI navigation from onscreen icon (name/phone displayed if available)
New! Real time weather report (internet access required via LAN, BT, mobile phone, Wi-Fi, etc)
Turn-by-turn visual instructions with voice prompts
Search by city or street first, intersection, city center, POI, LAT/LON, contacts (PPC only), favorites, and recent
Over 21,000 additional POI destinations (ex. over 9700+ new restaurants) with subcategories (listed by alphabetical order, distance, or city)
Maneuver guidance screen
Route list display
Quickest, shortest, local, major, ferry, toll, and carpool route options
Automatic day/night map color switching
Record and play route/track
Detour by "avoid" roads
Customizable hot keys for quick command (for PDA)
Default (non-customizable) hot keys for quick command (for laptop)
Stopover setting
Automatic rerouting for wrong turns
Special safety features (speed and fog alert)
Status box displaying ETA, distance, remaining time, and speed
Easy to use keypad for name entry
Map
New! New digital map available from Navteq w/ expanded Canadian coverage including all provinces w/ most areas down to street level
134,316 additional navigable miles from v1.1
Easily select map region by state, region, or by city/radius
Detailed map display w/ street names
Zoom in and out
Trip information
Visual Display
New! Enhanced 3-D display
New! VGA & landscape view support
New! Full screen mode for laptop
Geo-features differentiating lands, body of water, airport, etc
Full screen mode for pocket pc only
Large finger accessible buttons
Intuitive menu options
Distance indication bar
Automatic color modes for day and night display
Bright colors for visual enhancement
Voice
Turn-by-turn voice prompts
Automatic voice alerts before each turn/exit
Multiple distance notification for each maneuver
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Overall this product is pretty amazing. But it's not perfect so that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
The good:
Set up was easy. Being able to put whole states on my pocket PC instead of picking regions out of the map is great. I don't have to piece meal my trip like with Microsoft Sreets. The maps are about 30 Meg to 80 Meg per state. But with 512 Meg sd cards going for less that $50 that's not a problem.
The voice prompts are excellent. You can navigate almost any route with just the voice which is how it should be since you shouldn't be looking at the map while driving. In some cases when the roads get tricky it helps to look at the maps. For instance sometimes it will tell you to turn even though you're staying on the same road if other roads intersect at an angle and the road is turning. That's OK as long as you understand what it means. The display is clear and the automatic zooming when you get close to the turn is an excellent idea. I found myself doing that manually with Microsoft streets and trips just to get by. All the pertinent information you need while driving is there and easy to see, the name of the road for the next turn, its distance, and the direction of the turn. I like how it speaks the route number and direction when entering a highway. For example it will say something like, enter route 30 East on the left so that you can correlate the information with the available signs.
Both the pocket pc and laptop version are included and operate identically which is cool. Learn one and you've learned both. Great idea.
The bad:
Some of the routes it calculates are not the quickest. I have Microsofts Streets and Trips 2005 as well, and while I think that product is inferior overall, it does appear to calculate routes a little better. It's also difficult with this product to influence the route by setting way points. You can only set one "stopover" as far as I can tell. So the way I use it is I set a stopover on the route I know is better so that it will pick that route. Then when you get to the stopover point you have to click a button to show the rest of the route. A little clunky. You should be able to set multiple points that it will route through to the final destination. It does allow you to pick detours to avoid specific routes, but when I tried that to influence the route, their directions got even worse. Then I tried to "detour" the second route it picked so that hopefully it would pick what I know is the better route, but instead it went back to the original route I detoured. It doesn't remember previous detours! How easy it would be to make this a much more useful program with just a little more thought and effort. I don't expect it to know the best route everywhere, but at least allow me to influence it. They do have various options for routing such as shortest and least amount of turns, avoid toll roads, etc. but these are not as useful as I might have thought. If you pick the shortest route, at least in my area, you end up on some roads that look like driveways. So this is not a viable alternative to influencing the route.
Being able to record your trip is an excellent idea but they don't have any options for retrieving the data other than playing it back at the original speed. If you want to review a trip you'll have to sit through the whole thing. How hard would it have been to put a slider bar or fast forward on this? Another "almost" good idea. The demo feature allows you to preview your trip. But it also only goes at normal speed. What use is that other than to show your friends how cool it is? Keep trying guys, I'm sure you'll get it right eventually.
The zoom feature could use some more controls on the PC. For instance, the mouse wheel should zoom. Or you should be able to draw a rectangle around an area to zoom to. Maybe Microsoft patented those ideas? Or that may make the PC and pocket PC version too different.
The ugly:
I didn't find anything really ugly about this. There are no blatent bugs that render some programs like Microsoft Sreets and Trips unuseable. But I'll speak of that in another review.
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iGuidance
We have loaded this product onto our laptop and our Dell Axim PDA. It is working great. We use a bluetooth GPS receiver. The voice prompts are very useful. I like the various options for mapping route (shorterst, quickest, etc). Very user friendly. I would reccomend this product.
Routing
New! Enhanced memory management for longer distance routing
New! Improved bluetooth connectivity
New! 4 pre-defined map color themes
New! Single click POI navigation from onscreen icon (name/phone displayed if available)
New! Real time weather report (internet access required via LAN, BT, mobile phone, Wi-Fi, etc)
Turn-by-turn visual instructions with voice prompts
Search by city or street first, intersection, city center, POI, LAT/LON, contacts (PPC only), favorites, and recent
Over 21,000 additional POI destinations (ex. over 9700+ new restaurants) with subcategories (listed by alphabetical order, distance, or city)
Maneuver guidance screen
Route list display
Quickest, shortest, local, major, ferry, toll, and carpool route options
Automatic day/night map color switching
Record and play route/track
Detour by "avoid" roads
Customizable hot keys for quick command (for PDA)
Default (non-customizable) hot keys for quick command (for laptop)
Stopover setting
Automatic rerouting for wrong turns
Special safety features (speed and fog alert)
Status box displaying ETA, distance, remaining time, and speed
Easy to use keypad for name entry
Map
New! New digital map available from Navteq w/ expanded Canadian coverage including all provinces w/ most areas down to street level
134,316 additional navigable miles from v1.1
Easily select map region by state, region, or by city/radius
Detailed map display w/ street names
Zoom in and out
Trip information
Visual Display
New! Enhanced 3-D display
New! VGA & landscape view support
New! Full screen mode for laptop
Geo-features differentiating lands, body of water, airport, etc
Full screen mode for pocket pc only
Large finger accessible buttons
Intuitive menu options
Distance indication bar
Automatic color modes for day and night display
Bright colors for visual enhancement
Voice
Turn-by-turn voice prompts
Automatic voice alerts before each turn/exit
Multiple distance notification for each maneuver
====================================================
Overall this product is pretty amazing. But it's not perfect so that's why I gave it 4 stars instead of 5.
The good:
Set up was easy. Being able to put whole states on my pocket PC instead of picking regions out of the map is great. I don't have to piece meal my trip like with Microsoft Sreets. The maps are about 30 Meg to 80 Meg per state. But with 512 Meg sd cards going for less that $50 that's not a problem.
The voice prompts are excellent. You can navigate almost any route with just the voice which is how it should be since you shouldn't be looking at the map while driving. In some cases when the roads get tricky it helps to look at the maps. For instance sometimes it will tell you to turn even though you're staying on the same road if other roads intersect at an angle and the road is turning. That's OK as long as you understand what it means. The display is clear and the automatic zooming when you get close to the turn is an excellent idea. I found myself doing that manually with Microsoft streets and trips just to get by. All the pertinent information you need while driving is there and easy to see, the name of the road for the next turn, its distance, and the direction of the turn. I like how it speaks the route number and direction when entering a highway. For example it will say something like, enter route 30 East on the left so that you can correlate the information with the available signs.
Both the pocket pc and laptop version are included and operate identically which is cool. Learn one and you've learned both. Great idea.
The bad:
Some of the routes it calculates are not the quickest. I have Microsofts Streets and Trips 2005 as well, and while I think that product is inferior overall, it does appear to calculate routes a little better. It's also difficult with this product to influence the route by setting way points. You can only set one "stopover" as far as I can tell. So the way I use it is I set a stopover on the route I know is better so that it will pick that route. Then when you get to the stopover point you have to click a button to show the rest of the route. A little clunky. You should be able to set multiple points that it will route through to the final destination. It does allow you to pick detours to avoid specific routes, but when I tried that to influence the route, their directions got even worse. Then I tried to "detour" the second route it picked so that hopefully it would pick what I know is the better route, but instead it went back to the original route I detoured. It doesn't remember previous detours! How easy it would be to make this a much more useful program with just a little more thought and effort. I don't expect it to know the best route everywhere, but at least allow me to influence it. They do have various options for routing such as shortest and least amount of turns, avoid toll roads, etc. but these are not as useful as I might have thought. If you pick the shortest route, at least in my area, you end up on some roads that look like driveways. So this is not a viable alternative to influencing the route.
Being able to record your trip is an excellent idea but they don't have any options for retrieving the data other than playing it back at the original speed. If you want to review a trip you'll have to sit through the whole thing. How hard would it have been to put a slider bar or fast forward on this? Another "almost" good idea. The demo feature allows you to preview your trip. But it also only goes at normal speed. What use is that other than to show your friends how cool it is? Keep trying guys, I'm sure you'll get it right eventually.
The zoom feature could use some more controls on the PC. For instance, the mouse wheel should zoom. Or you should be able to draw a rectangle around an area to zoom to. Maybe Microsoft patented those ideas? Or that may make the PC and pocket PC version too different.
The ugly:
I didn't find anything really ugly about this. There are no blatent bugs that render some programs like Microsoft Sreets and Trips unuseable. But I'll speak of that in another review.
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iGuidance
We have loaded this product onto our laptop and our Dell Axim PDA. It is working great. We use a bluetooth GPS receiver. The voice prompts are very useful. I like the various options for mapping route (shorterst, quickest, etc). Very user friendly. I would reccomend this product.
