Comments on: CoPilot Live For Android Now Available

By: Earl Wertheimer

Earl Wertheimer — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 03:59:54 +0000

I read the reviews and had doubts, but it was a great buy for $35. I don’t have a dedicated GPS, and I wanted the maps in my Android (Droid/Milestone) and not online. They sent me a step by step guide on installation that worked perfectly (but slowly). The North American maps are almost 2 gigs.
It seems to take a few minutes to locate my current position, but worked perfectly on a recent trip.

By: Chocolate Chin

Chocolate Chin — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:06:13 +0000

Buggy rubbish, uninstalling as I type. Installs ok. Crashes all the time, locks up phone, cant download maps via phone or their PC software. How this got released in this state I dont know. I’ll wait for better on my Hero, thanks.

By: Jae

Jae — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:25:38 +0000

I purchased this app. It’s complete garbage and a total scam. Google Navigator is far better and less buggy. My copilot doesn’t work, maps won’t download, and the site won’t offer a refund.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from this garbage app.

By: Lamar

Lamar — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:36:53 +0000

This is really the best GPS app on android by far. The reason why you could not download the map from central is because you need to mount your phone to the pc and use wifi. Once it is complete it rocks

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:33:46 +0000

Aren’t there any OpenStreetMap based applications yet? I haven’t got a Android phone yet (I need one with 720p video recording), but that’s what I’d do..

By: René

René — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:17:06 +0000

Andnev2 streams maps which sucks when there’s no 3G coverage. Also, in Denmark, where I’m from the maps suck. Honestly, you get what you pay for. It can’t even calculate the route locally but depends on the server. It’s a nice free service but like most other things that are free it’s not as good as what you pay for. This is an offline turn-by-turn navigation system and it simply works. It’s professional and has a nice GUI.

Andnav might get there at some point but when it comes to navigation I use it when I DON’T KNOW how to get where I’m going and on that particular field I don’t want to be a beta tester. GPS Navigation has to just WORK, simple as that.

By: The Sombrero Kid

The Sombrero Kid — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:11:03 +0000

never heard of andNav2? it’s free and it’s awesome.

By: René

René — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:26:08 +0000

Mine had problems downloading big maps, I ended up downloading a region. And I couldn’t download them from Central because they didn’t appear. I figured out why though, just log off central and back in with your phone hooked up and it works!

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:30:03 +0000

I just got my refund back from Google Checkout here in the US. I downloaded last night and never did any stage of the set up process go well. It was very stressful and I consider my self Technoable and this was just awful. I really wanted this app and it just did not work. It did not download the maps right, when it did, the map would not appear, when I downloaded Copilot Central 2.0 that did not work…It was a mess and finally after being on hold for 25 mins twice I said enough is enough…But I really wanted this to work out. Shame really.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:04:37 +0000

Yeah.. I guess that the mobile version would be better, but I would be hesitant to support software development companies like ALK after my other experience.

Companies who release products which have crap QA will probably only keep doing it. Also, despite their insistence downgrading would fix the crashes, it didn’t, so it sounds like rather then fix a buggy product they sold, that they preferred to take the easy/dodgy route and tell customers to downgrade their OS (thinking customers wouldn’t do so).

I’d rather see a new GPS company arise instead. But this is just a politics thing, so I’d rather see people make up their own mind