Desire HD.
Hi,
I was after a pre-loaded map Sat Nav and looked at a few and finally bought NDrive for UK. (Latest Version 11)
Not too happy now but only done small amount of real life driving but on these few times, Every time I have had to use other maps to find my destination but these were quite rural areas in UK and really is a small test so don't let my post put you off,
I might have missed something, partly why I am posting so that perhaps others may point out what I may have missed.
The few post codes I wanted to Nav to were not listed (TomTom & Google found them OK)
A few road names I wanted were not listed, again TT & GN found them)
There is no navigate to Contacts
Does not seem an easy way to pre-add favorites, no manage fav's option. (although I have seen this ability mentioned when referring to NDrive but assume must be on a different platform).
The only way I can see is on the map, zoom & drag to the location and then tap & add, which can be handy but absolutely no use in most situations.
GoTo Google search, nice idea & one I quite like to use a lot. Seemed to miss a few thing I thought would be there. Also when showing matches only shows co-ordinates and not any part of the address. So as I found 3 matches but could not tell which one/if any were in the location I wanted, so you tap "show", try to work out on the map if it is the correct one, zoom out etc. if not, you can't seem to go back one step an try the other you need the goto/places/google and type the search again. Not often can be that specific to only return one result. Not a deal breaker.
As I have since read on android market, I also find it can stick on the old road despite turning off, perhaps for 10 to 20 yards, despite a v.good GPS signal. Most of the time it is pretty good with this but can be tiny bit laggy. Try to make exception for being a phone and not a dedicated unit.
Way too bright at night, have my desire on auto setting and fine otherwise, small issue & sure a way round this but seems odd no setting built it (Not that I have found)
ETA so far very optimistic, says will take 20 minutes on a fairly simple route, very unlikely to do in under 30 minutes. Not a big issue but is nice to get a rough idea, I suspect on a long journey take with a pinch of salt. Was spoit with TomToms amazingly good ETA, went 10 hours across France once and excluding stops was about 5 minutes out.
I Liked Google Navigator being free but tiny bit slow using data when signal not great.
Had for many years TomTom and were very good. But trying to avoid more stuff stuck to windscreen and with Desire HD nice to do it all.
What is odd is the overall feel & graphics indicate a really polished application but I can't get comfortable with it. I am going to persist but if I find any more postcode or address issues I will not be able to continue.
I really hope I am not giving a false impression of NDrive, please do your research on a trial. (which I did not, I read not easy to get a trial with maps, but again I might be mistaken, I just read reviews & just bought, think only