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Can CoPilot (or any of the iPhone GPS apps) relay the audio turn-by-turn directions via bluetooth? I ask because I have a bluetooth helmet that I use for my motorcycle, and with my previous phone (MotoQ), the Garmin software would route audio via bluetooth which made it very usable on the bike.

I was just wondering if the iPhone GPS apps were the same before I dropped the coin on one.
 
mac-slap-happy said:
Can CoPilot (or any of the iPhone GPS apps) relay the audio turn-by-turn directions via bluetooth? I ask because I have a bluetooth helmet that I use for my motorcycle, and with my previous phone (MotoQ), the Garmin software would route audio via bluetooth which made it very usable on the bike.

I was just wondering if the iPhone GPS apps were the same before I dropped the coin on one.
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CoPilot does (that's the only GPS satnav app I have)
 
A few minor annoyances:

Routes don't cancel once you arrive at your destination. I have to go in and select "cancel next stop" or else it will continue to guide me back to my destination.

Maps often show streets that don't exist.

Several times I have started up CoPilot and have had my phone in landscape mode during startup. When pressing the X to exit out of the little menu on startup, it would bring up a keyboard on top of that menu with no way to exit out of that. Why it brings up the keyboard there, I have no idea because there is not even a text input box. I would have to press the home button to start all over again. I've reinstalled the app and it doesn't seem to have happened since then.

I mainly use CoPilot to be able to read the street names for my job. I have used it to help me find an address about ten times. It has only been able to find an address 2 out of 10 times. The other times, it would just come up with a nearby address, say 7750 instead of 7749. Other times, it would not find the address till I tried searching by zip code instead wasting minutes that I don't have.

All in all, the app is still useful but needs some work.
 
hexonxonx said:
A few minor annoyances:

Routes don't cancel once you arrive at your destination. I have to go in and select "cancel next stop" or else it will continue to guide me back to my destination.

Maps often show streets that don't exist.

Several times I have started up CoPilot and have had my phone in landscape mode during startup. When pressing the X to exit out of the little menu on startup, it would bring up a keyboard on top of that menu with no way to exit out of that. Why it brings up the keyboard there, I have no idea because there is not even a text input box. I would have to press the home button to start all over again. I've reinstalled the app and it doesn't seem to have happened since then.

I mainly use CoPilot to be able to read the street names for my job. I have used it to help me find an address about ten times. It has only been able to find an address 2 out of 10 times. The other times, it would just come up with a nearby address, say 7750 instead of 7749. Other times, it would not find the address till I tried searching by zip code instead wasting minutes that I don't have.

All in all, the app is still useful but needs some work.
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Most GPS programs subscribe to Navateq, the leading mapmaker and U.S. based. TomTom uses Teleatlas, a European company and Copilot uses Mapsure for North America, but Navateq for Europe. I've read that Mapsure gets its maps from Tiger maps, which is the Census Bureau's mapping service. Mapsure's maps then are based upon the last census in 2000, which is why their maps appear to be old. They do add addresses users submit, but that has not been enough to keep the maps current. I wish they would subscribe to Navateq, then they would have the best navigation app for the iPhone. Navigon has beautiful 3D maps and subscribes to Navateq, but their app is plagued with problems holding a GPS signal.
 
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