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ALK CoPilot Live 8 for Windows Mobile video review

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Overall, ALK CoPilot Live 8 shows why this has been the leading smartphone sat-nav app for a while. Although the Live Services are not new compared to standalone sat-navs, CoPilot leads the pack by providing the most comprehensive interactive options yet available in a smartphone app. It's almost ludicrous not to offer Live Search in a device which is clearly going to have mobile data built in, and this is a genuinely useful facility. Currently, only the Windows Mobile version of CoPilot offers this, too. So whilst the rush to capture the iPhone sat-nav market is on, ALK has saved its most fully featured offering for Windows Mobile, making CoPilot Live 8 currently the best navigation smartphone app. With a single-region download version starting at £25.99, and the whole of Europe at £59.99, it's great value too. Read full review

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By James Morris
Reviewed 17 August 2009
Updated 10 January 2012

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£25.99

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ALK CoPilot Live 8 for Windows Mobile details

Value
10/10
Features
9/10
Overall
9/10

Price as reviewed

£25.99

Manufacturer

ALK Technologies

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mmemmory

9:00 AM on 17 August, 2009

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Will you be reviewing the Android version separately as I'm definitely interested in getting that for the HTC Hero.

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Martin Daler

10:50 AM on 17 August, 2009

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I use CoPilot 7 on my iPaq PDA, its definitely the most used application, so its great to see continued support for the product (unlike HP themselves). The lack of QWERTY is a real pain however and seems inexplicable given that ALK make the specific claim to have improved the UI. On the plus side, they have kept the great choice of destination input methods, including OS grid references, which I used recently to navigate to a location I found in a guide to swimmable rivers - much more appropriate than a postcode.


ALK also seem confused as to whether CoPilot Central 2.0 (the desktop companion software not mentioned in your review) will be compatible with WinMo (it says Android only on the download page) and with 64-bit Vista (Central 1.0 is only 32-bit compatible). Perhaps TR could dig a little deeper and find the answer?


I do find that CoPilot 7 makes the occasional slip of the tongue, for example telling you to take the wrong number exit on a roundabout (go the the end of the A55 on Anglesey, all in the name of journalisitc investigation of course, for one example) and has a tendency to take me on some strange routes sometimes, so I was hoping TR might have had more to say on the actual routing engine in this review, but I didn't really get the feeling from the review that you had done much more than rephrase the speil on the back of the box and maybe try out the demo mode. Be honest guys/gals - how far did you drive?

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11:11 AM on 17 August, 2009

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@Martin Daler: Did you even watch the video review? The app is quite clearly in use while James is driving.





As for finding all the quirks of a particular routing engine, that can be very dependent on where you happen to be driving. We only have devices/apps/whatever it may be for a short period of time so to find and point out all these issues is sometimes just not possible.





@m_memmory: I doubt we'll be reviewing the iPhone and Android versions seperately (though that's not a definite) as for the most part they seem to be pretty similar. Certainly, comparing this WinMo version to my iPhone version, they seem near identical.

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11:21 AM on 17 August, 2009

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My street in a new development in Essex where development started in 2004 and finished in Dec 2007 is missing from Copilot Live 8.





I have a slight problem though. I have screen lock set up on my phone (HTC Touch Pro 2) at 5 mins. When Copilot is running I expect the screen to stay unlocked as the phone is in use but it still locks out at 5mins. This definitely didnt happen when I used Copilot 6 on my previous phones (Charmer or TyTN 2). Anyone with a solution to this problem?

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My street in a new development in Essex where development started in 2004 and finished in Dec 2007 is missing from Copilot Live 8.





I have a slight problem though. I have screen lock set up on my phone (HTC Touch Pro 2) at 5 mins. When Copilot is running I expect the screen to stay unlocked as the phone is in use but it still locks out at 5mins. This definitely didnt happen when I used Copilot 6 on my previous phones (Charmer or TyTN 2). Anyone with a solution to this problem?

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Martin Daler

11:38 AM on 17 August, 2009

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Actually Ed, I was going to ask where was the video review, I just get a blank page!


See here to see if you get what I get:


http://www.trustedreviews.com/video/ALK-CoPilot-Live-8

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11:42 AM on 17 August, 2009

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Ed - it could be a little local difficulty with AdBlock Plus, I have now found the Video!


Cheers!

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12:55 PM on 17 August, 2009

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Hmmm, I thought everyone at TR hated the TG01?! :P

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12:58 PM on 17 August, 2009

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Does the Detour/Avoid function actually provide an alternative route in this version? It never seems to work at all for me in V7, especially when trying to avoid traffic - it just gives me the same route as originally planned.

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I see ALK has cleared up my confusion by adding the words "and Windows Mibile" to the download page for Copilot Central 2.0. So it is now billed as working for both Android and WM, for both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista. Good news!

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