Sat Navs for Android 2.1

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I've heard of Google Maps being used with the voice add on, but is there any other software you guys can recommend for use on mobile phones?

I would prefer free software though don't mind paying if the recommendations are good.
 
Co-Pilot
Sygic Mobile Maps

Used both and they are more accurate than Google Navigation/Maps etc (at keeping the blue icon on the correct road but Samsung Galaxy's do have a problem).
Sygic won't work on my Darky 10.1 rom (Gingerbread)
 
If you don't have a problem with the requirement for a data connection imo Google Navigation is great, got Copilot as well as I bought it before google announced the turn-by-turn nav for free but keep it installed should I ever need nav with no data connection...
 
I personally prefer copilot over the google navigation as the voice for the google navigation drives me up the wall lol!!! It is so robotic and horrible, I much prefer the voices on copilot - you can download new ones as well which you can't on google navigation.
 
I've used Navigon, Co-Pilot and Sygic and they're all good but prefer Google Nav. The voice directions are more precise (it says exactly the exit to take, speaks the road/junction name and/or number and tells you which bearing to keep at a fork among other things. That and combined with integrated street view it made finding a lot of venues and houses easier for me. Obviously other people's requirements and uses might be different.

The voice is slightly robotic but it's very easy to understand after you've used it a while.

If you don't have a problem with the requirement for a data connection imo Google Navigation is great, got Copilot as well as I bought it before google announced the turn-by-turn nav for free but keep it installed should I ever need nav with no data connection...

Google Navigation uses little (or none at all) data. It caches the entire root including any possible wrong turns when you first punch in the destination and set the nav up from the starting opint (where you will likely be on WiFi anyway) and even if it does use data (traffic updates, lattitude etc) it's always a very small amount of data.

Mapping data isn't huge either, it's all vector based and on a 200 mile drive the last time I checked I used maybe 10MB of data but I had background app sync on so that was probably all of that combined.
 
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Yeah I am not bashing the navigation app, I have copilot because I wanted a navigation app and at the time google navigation wasn't available.
 
I've used Navigon, Co-Pilot and Sygic and they're all good but prefer Google Nav. The voice directions are more precise (it says exactly the exit to take, speaks the road/junction name and/or number and tells you which bearing to keep at a fork among other things. That and combined with integrated street view it made finding a lot of venues and houses easier for me. Obviously other people's requirements and uses might be different.

The voice is slightly robotic but it's very easy to understand after you've used it a while.



Google Navigation uses little (or none at all) data. It caches the entire root including any possible wrong turns when you first punch in the destination and set the nav up from the starting opint (where you will likely be on WiFi anyway) and even if it does use data (traffic updates, lattitude etc) it's always a very small amount of data.

Mapping data isn't huge either, it's all vector based and on a 200 mile drive the last time I checked I used maybe 10MB of data but I had background app sync on so that was probably all of that combined.

Indeed, although I quite frequently use google nav with no wifi and even over GPRS it's fine, my main point was if there was NO data connection, either due to being in the middle of nowhere or due to turning data off abroad thanks to rip-off carriers, for use purely in the UK it's almost perfect as it's rare to be completely without signal really.
 
I use sygic 10. It's good enough, but it pales into comparison compared to Tom-tom on the ruining on the s60 and that's 4 years old now.

I don't know why the main players don't make a proper standalone Satnav App for latest phones like they did a few year ago.

Google maps is no-no if you travel abroad and/or if you don't want to listen to a robotic computer voice. Other than that is looks good, but doesn't record trip stats.
 
I use CoPilot and think it is generally very good.
If I didn't go on business and need the car in continental europe and the US, as well as rural scotland for holidays I'd use google nav.
 
i used google nav too and it's good for free, although it has once taken me down the wrong route past loads of traffic, down a dead end and then said now do a u turn and go back the route you just gone past, the one with traffic! good fun
 
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Do any of them record and display trip statistics and allow you to combine trips into a larger journey?

I'd like stats like average speed, top speed, altitute, time stationary etc.. mainly for use on my European tours
 
You can run MyTracks or SpeedView that does log stats in the background and then exports to kml format for Google Earth/Maps which is overlaid and shows top speed, average speed, altitude, speed at each market etc.

It's quite good but it does mean you have to start the app alongside the usual app.
 
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