Hi all,
as you know from the other thread this is now released, and today I took a test drive using GMN instead of my usual copilot.
My test drive was from central south london, to Birmingham, and back to east London, through very congested roads.
The interface and integration with search (not surprising) are great, for instance put in a postcode of a business and itll usually give you the business name, which is nice reassurance.
When driving it doesnt always want to let you see the non-navigation (ie overview) view nor does it automatically show the streetview before turnings - however after playing with this it actually seemed a bit pants, as the viewpoint wasnt quite right.
The fluidity of the turns is brilliant.
The colours arent that great however, and sometimes its hard to see the route vs the road.
The voice is ok, loud, but not too pleasant.
All in all better than copilot + tomtom for all things from my test apart from two killer things:
1. No integrated speed camera database
2. POWER - this is a MAJOR issue! My phone was plugged in at all times to my 12v car adapter, at the start of the journey the battery was full, on arrival to Birmingham it was @ 30% (it was charging all the way!!), and on the way back to london the phone ran out of power.
In essence on a long run and in my case it seems the navigation app is pulling more power than the car socket can provide - madness!
Anyone have any thoughts yet?
as you know from the other thread this is now released, and today I took a test drive using GMN instead of my usual copilot.
My test drive was from central south london, to Birmingham, and back to east London, through very congested roads.
The interface and integration with search (not surprising) are great, for instance put in a postcode of a business and itll usually give you the business name, which is nice reassurance.
When driving it doesnt always want to let you see the non-navigation (ie overview) view nor does it automatically show the streetview before turnings - however after playing with this it actually seemed a bit pants, as the viewpoint wasnt quite right.
The fluidity of the turns is brilliant.
The colours arent that great however, and sometimes its hard to see the route vs the road.
The voice is ok, loud, but not too pleasant.
All in all better than copilot + tomtom for all things from my test apart from two killer things:
1. No integrated speed camera database
2. POWER - this is a MAJOR issue! My phone was plugged in at all times to my 12v car adapter, at the start of the journey the battery was full, on arrival to Birmingham it was @ 30% (it was charging all the way!!), and on the way back to london the phone ran out of power.
In essence on a long run and in my case it seems the navigation app is pulling more power than the car socket can provide - madness!
Anyone have any thoughts yet?