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4 replies · 2,130 views · Started 14 July 2007

So I bought a Month of Smart2Go Navigation to give this a run today. With the new method of Triangulation I was hardly 100 Meters down the road when the GPS Kiced in and Calculated my route and since I was going to a place Id never been to before I thought it did really well. I accidentally missed a turnoff because I thought I was right lol. Shouldve listend to the GPS. It automatically recalculated and It got me there. I was impressed. Arrived at my destination perfectly. However when I tried to leave GPS wouldnt Triangulate i restarted the phone it still gave me grief so I left it since I knew the way back. When I got home I went outside Kicked off GPS and 15 seconds later it had a lock. So other than that little nuisance i don't know want went wrong I was fairly impressed with the Unit. I have tried Route 66 but I was very disappointed with its map coverage and Im not going to buy the software if it doesn't have map coverage of my area. Smart2Go was very good with map coverage so far and thats why I have purchased it. Just to rate the Navigation I figured i Would give you guys a run down.

Easy of Use - 8/10
Accuracy - 8/10
Voice directions - 10/10

One problem I did face was while on the Highway it said Keep left, I glanced at the map and it was clearly take the offramp so It would've been nice if it had said take the exit but I'm not going to critic it for that because Thats why there is a MAP as well. Overall Superb product I would highly recommend purchasing the navigation Option.

The Maps app has had a lot of bad comments made but I'd have to say that for someone who thought GPS on a phone would be an unusable gimmick I find it perfectly competent and fit for purpose.

You are all right, it is useful for sure. Nevertheless I observe a lot of bugs in this software that needs correcting. I'm still waiting for next versions.

Could anybody tell me if we can expect in the nearest future a new version of Nokia Maps. I observe that both versions are still buggy and the results of routing are very offen strange, even worse in case of this newest beta version which appeared on smart2go web page for a while.