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ALK CoPilot Live 8 for iPhone video review

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ALK’s CoPilot Live 8 for iPhone was already shaping up well merely because of its extremely keen price. But it’s also comprehensively featured. Even with a year’s subscription to the Premium Live Services, it’s still cheaper than the alternatives from TomTom and Navigon. If you only want occasional navigation, CoPilot Live can turn your iPhone into all the sat-nav you will ever need for much less than a standalone unit, even when you factor in the cost of a screen mount and car power cable. Add in the Live extras, and it’s almost as powerful as devices costing closer to £200. Read full review

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By James Morris
Reviewed 12 January 2010
Updated 12 October 2011

Price as reviewed

£26.99

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ALK CoPilot Live 8 for iPhone details

Value
10/10
Features
8/10
Design
8/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£26.99

Manufacturer

ALK Technologies

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Ofer

11:58 AM on 12 January, 2010

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What about a review of the iGo My Way for iPhone, it is an excellent navigation application





http://www.igomyway.com/en/

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12:25 PM on 12 January, 2010

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@Ofer - They review products that are sent to them, they don't buy products for review. It would cost them hundreds of thousands of pounds ;-)





CoPilot was the first Nav program I bought for my iPhone 3GS and found it to be terrible. It cannot string instructions together properly so if you leave a roundabout and there is another turning within the next 5 seconds it does not bother telling you about it. The routes it takes you on are also bizzare.





My second program was Navigon. Instructions were better but routing was even more bizzare than CoPilot.





My third purchase was TomTom 1.2. Instructions and routing are excellent. The only problem is that TomTom's maps are not as up to date as the other two programs and POI are terrible. This is the program I use every day as I find the routes it sends me on are much better than the others.

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1:01 PM on 12 January, 2010

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You seem to imply the TomTom came out before Co-Pilot, I remember it been the other way round.





I've been using Co-Pilot since it came out, and I have to say for £26 it's a bargain. Some people complain about lock on, but I've never had any troubles (Iphone3G).





They has also been a number of updates since buying, one thing I didn't like about the original version was it's proprietary keyboard, nice to see it now uses the default Iphone one.





Also for a nice quick way of getting Music & powering your Iphone in the car, I've used the Griffin RoadTrip, works really well once you hack it into US mode, as the EU has some stupid law were the FM frequency changes every-time you power on. Please Please at the next election can some anti-EU party win, or at least have a referendum like was promised from the current set of scam merchants.

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1:05 PM on 12 January, 2010

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They dont come cheap and Den, you're the perfect customer for Apple.





For those who dont have a external speaker/tomtom kit etc, xmi mini2 I believe is a perfect partner to boost the sound on iphone for satsav nevigation... works on battery lasting over 7hours & really portable & loud

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1:30 PM on 12 January, 2010

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I must admit that I was pretty surprised to see CoPilot get such a high score. I had it on my 3G and found it to be pretty lacklustre (probably more due to the poor hardware) and no where near as intuitive as *any* other sat nav program. Cancelling a route was a convoluted nightmare and the refresh rate of the iPhone satellite receiver is shocking...even with a full signal, most it's instructions were retrospective!





TomTom trounces it in terms of usability and the iGo software i'm now using on an HD2 is even better than the TomTom equipment I've been using for years. I just spend too long trying to figure out how to permanently remove the CoPilot software from the HD2 - annoyingly it's cooked in to the official ROM!





It is amazing value though and it will get you to where you want to go, eventually - I found it favoured some crazy long routes through London at peak times, that were just stupid. Just a shame Copilot won't allow people to transfer their licences from one device to another, ie iPhone to WM, which I think is pretty mean.





10/10 for value and a 3/10 for performance on the iPhone (i'd give it 6/10 on the HD2 as the hardware is so much more sensitive that it can get a full solid signal anywhere, even inside sometimes).

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2:17 PM on 12 January, 2010

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@lifethroughalens: I'm sure not all IPhones can be made equal, it sounds like yours had lots of problems. Co-Pilot on my Iphone certainly doesn't tell you after the event, the screen updates are as smooth as silk, the routes it picks seem fine (but this could maybe be area specific) and this by the way is on a 3G, not a 3GS. The only other thing I can think of, how often did you do a hard reset?, I've found the 3G likes a hard reset every now and again (not just a soft reset). Also I've never Jailbroken my Iphone, and I believe you did so maybe they could have been issues there.

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3:40 PM on 12 January, 2010

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@xbrumster - my moto is buy cheap, buy twice. In this case 3 times lol.

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3:49 PM on 12 January, 2010

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@ Keith - yes it was jailbroken and I hadn't done a hard reset in ages. That may be something to do with the poor experience I had with the CoPilot software.





I'm glad it works so well for you. The final straw for me was the continual crashing of the software. I'd be driving along for 20 mins or so and then wonder why it was so quiet, only to glance down to see that it had crashed ages ago and when I re-booted it the route was no longer active. It did this almost every time I used it for long (1+ hour journeys) especially when it was pulling mail in the background and if I was taking calls / texts whilst using the Bluetooth connection. All of which should be do-able on a non jail broken phone.





I just got the distinct feeling that with all that going on that the hardware just wasn't up to the job...not by a long shot. It was all too slow and unresponsive. I am a much happier bunny with the iGo on the HD2 and as I said the CoPilot Software was much better on a more powerful platform. Good job I sold my 3G for loads of dosh :)

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4:03 PM on 12 January, 2010

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@lifethroughalens: ALK do allow transfer of licences. I have a WM licence which I transferred to my Android (Hero) with just a phone call to ALK. Really easy.





Although I have never used Co-Pilot on an iPhone it runs quite nicely on the Hero and I am very happy with it. It doesn't always make the best choices with routing (the old Sat Nav in my Renault is better) but the instructions are clear and timely.

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@Den: I had a similar experience. I bought Co-Pilot due to its lower cost. But I found I was getting some strange routings. More importantly, a lot of the people I visit are in industrial estates, and Co-Pilot didn't seem to cope with these.


I had used TomTom on a WM phone, so I though I would give it a go, even though on principle I disagreed with the whole cradle fiasco (I bought an £8.00 cradle that fits the iPhone brilliantly, and I have the sound coming through the stereo via an FM transmitter - no line in in my car).


Since moving back to TomTom, its as good as the WM version, with updated maps, and finds all of the postcodes I enter on industrial estates!


The POI's on TomTom are rubbish though. Good thing Google Maps is also installed on the phone!

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