I've used Copilot fairly extensively over the past couple of days, and to be honest, it's buggy, ugly, lacking in useability and not even close in terms of reliability compared to Navigon which I also own. It has been constantly giving me dodgy directions, taking much longer than Navigon to recalculate a route, and displaying glitchy, screwy (for want of a better word) graphics.
I really wanted to like this app, but I don't like the map display, the contacts list - what is with that?! The menu navigation is hardly intuitive, the route navigation is far from smooth, much more jittery than Navigon.
Bugs I've noticed include:
a totally screwed up lane assist view, as if two images are overlayed over each other
when stationary the location indicator is huge and for some reason the 3D display focuses a few miles away, with my location off in the distance somewhere
when changing between landscape & portrait view it takes a good few seconds to readjust the image making it look really stretched
when the lane assist view closes it goes back to the map, but a few hundred yard from my actual location before readjusting
iPod music volume doesn't lower when the VoiceOver comes on, and there's no volume setting for the voice, and it's too loud when my music is at a good volume
GPS accuracy is not good, telling me to exit the motorway left in 1 mile when the road sign I pass tells me the exit is in 0.5 miles
2D map scrolling is way too sensitive, making it very annoying when panning around a 2D map
sometimes when going from 3D to 2D maps, the map centers on the most south-west point of the Europe map, even though this is the UK version
road names sometimes get overlayed over each other making them unreadable.
OK it has some features that Navigon doesn't have, weather, more voices, I dunno, I think there's a few others, but without basic functionalit and reliability, I can't compare it. Navigon is far superior in my experiences, more reliable, accurate, smoother route navigation, more intuitive menu navigation, much nicer UI and map graphics. Navigon is not perfect, but it's a solid app and does what it says on the tin.
I know most people don't appear to have had these issues, and the majority are happy, but these are my opinions of it, and I have found it to be more of a beta release and something ready for sale.
And yes, I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling/rebooting etc.
I really wanted to like this app, but I don't like the map display, the contacts list - what is with that?! The menu navigation is hardly intuitive, the route navigation is far from smooth, much more jittery than Navigon.
Bugs I've noticed include:
a totally screwed up lane assist view, as if two images are overlayed over each other
when stationary the location indicator is huge and for some reason the 3D display focuses a few miles away, with my location off in the distance somewhere
when changing between landscape & portrait view it takes a good few seconds to readjust the image making it look really stretched
when the lane assist view closes it goes back to the map, but a few hundred yard from my actual location before readjusting
iPod music volume doesn't lower when the VoiceOver comes on, and there's no volume setting for the voice, and it's too loud when my music is at a good volume
GPS accuracy is not good, telling me to exit the motorway left in 1 mile when the road sign I pass tells me the exit is in 0.5 miles
2D map scrolling is way too sensitive, making it very annoying when panning around a 2D map
sometimes when going from 3D to 2D maps, the map centers on the most south-west point of the Europe map, even though this is the UK version
road names sometimes get overlayed over each other making them unreadable.
OK it has some features that Navigon doesn't have, weather, more voices, I dunno, I think there's a few others, but without basic functionalit and reliability, I can't compare it. Navigon is far superior in my experiences, more reliable, accurate, smoother route navigation, more intuitive menu navigation, much nicer UI and map graphics. Navigon is not perfect, but it's a solid app and does what it says on the tin.
I know most people don't appear to have had these issues, and the majority are happy, but these are my opinions of it, and I have found it to be more of a beta release and something ready for sale.
And yes, I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling/rebooting etc.
