The competition heats up!
New Zealand just got a whole new load of GPS navigation love in the shape of CoPilot Australasia [iTunes Link]. Priced at $94.99, the app is another major GPS app in the same vein as TomTom and Sygic and features maps for both Australia and New Zealand. American and European versions of CoPilot have been out for a wee while with Gizmodo even naming it ‘Best Cheap GPS App’. We will be testing the app on the mean streets of Christchurch today and will report back with a full review either this evening or tomorrow morning, so keep your eyes peeled here is the review. In the meantime hit up the ‘read more’ link for the official blurb to whet your appetite!
Here’s the official blurb for CoPilot:
CoPilot Live is the award-winning GPS Sat Nav system that runs on your iPhone, with complete street maps of USA and Canada. It’s your personal travelling assistant that’s always at your side, ready to guide you with turn-by-turn directions and keep you better informed with useful live information about your route.
Every journey easier
CoPilot Live is packed with sophisticated features, previously only available on high-end dedicated navigation systems. It’s mobile GPS at its smartest. Street maps are stored on the phone – not downloaded each trip. There’s no need for extra hardware or monthly fees, just start CoPilot on your iPhone, enter a destination and go there.
Key features:
- Full spoken turn-by-turn voice directions
- Detailed street maps of Australia and New Zealand stored on your iPhone
- Clear 3D and 2D driving views with SmartZoom™ speed-variable zoom and street names
- Navigate to a house number, street, intersection or address book contact
- Automatic portrait and landscape display switching
- Comprehensive multi-stop pre-trip planning and preview
- Route optimizer works out the best way around multiple stops
- Intelligent navigation provides guidance in tunnels and underpasses
- Automatic day/night mode
- Text to Speech (North America version only)
- Navigate to thousands of Points of Interest
- LiveLink™ location sharing and messaging: keep track of your CoPilot friends, live on-screen!
- Live 5 day weather forecast for your location or destination
- Huge range of customization features to suit the way you travel
- Customized trip status displays, including eta, distance remaining and more
- … and much more
Update coming soon:
- In-app purchases for premium Live services
- Access to iPod controls and playlists from CoPilot
- Additional GPS performance improvements
- User control to dim or switch-off music during voice instructions
- Further enhancements based on customer feedback
– CoPilot Live Australasia
This is such awesome news, I used the US version when I was over there afew months ago, and it is by far the best GPS app I have used so far. Didn’t even stop to think before I got this for home
(muttys has made 9 comments)
G’Day,
After four months of research on which Turn byTurn was the best, I finally found the one!
CoPilotlive 8, I have had it for Four days and trial it around town and oh bliss oh joy it work like a charm. Only once it got it wrong in a turn I thought that was due to trees blocking the signal.
Anyway so far so good, I will write more when I have had it for a while,
Cheers.
(pineapplelump1 has made 1 comment)
“In-app purchases for premium Live services”
This makes me nervous. It’s an expensive nav app, what sort of premium content could there be? I don’t take well to being ‘nickeled and dimed’.
(moviemichael has made 49 comments)
No updates? Cant wait to hear how you get on… Thanks
(photomadnz has made 2 comments)
Yeah me too! @photomadnz
(nzlotrfan has made 11 comments)
@photomadnz – Review here
(Dan has made 358 comments)