has anyone tried r66 mobile 8 yet. i have used my last copy on so many fones that my activation cade has reached its limit.:frown:
it looks ok. thinking of buying it. :con?
also i have just got a copy of wayfinder speed alert.
and all i can say is.................................... its not great.😡😡
Ive heard its quite good, since they have improved the routing. Havent had a chance to try it though.
However, I strongly recommend holding back till I review the latest version of copilot. Its out soon (April for definate) and looks to have very good features.
How about free speed camera updates for starters?
Go here to see the features: http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/default.asp
Could well be the best one for symbian yet.
now that is interesting.
r66 have always missed out on the speed camera band-wagon.
i do like the auto switching from day to night.
and at about �80 its not to far out of reach.😊😊
i got a reply to my question about mobile 8 about its saftey cams. ant at about �7.60 its not bad.
Dear Sir,
Please note that there are several extra options available for Mobile 8, including the Safety Camera option.
In order to use this option, the customer has to purchase the licence via the Route 66 Sync application that comes on the Mobile 8 CD/DVD.
A 1-year subscription licence for Safety Cameras UK costs 9.95 Eur.
Kind regards,
Adrian BERBECE
ROUTE 66 Customer Support
I have used Nokia Maps, Navigon, CoPilot, Garmin Xt, Sygic and Route66 Mobile 8 on my Nokia N95 8GB All legit bought and paid for ( except Sygic )
I'm a sales rep and use my phone and sat nav to find customers houses.
In my opinion Route 66 M8 is by far the best.
The routing is spot on and I have never been sent anywere silly. It locks on to the sats immediately as against Navigon which would take up to 10mins. I really like having the next turn info displayed at the top away from the main display bar at the bottom. the voice instructions are loud and clear. I especially like instructions like " take the second turn on the left"
I subscribed to the Safety camera alerts and was very impressed with the fact that like on tomtom you can assign your own voice warning files, so I get " warning Gatso ahead - Speed limit 40miles an hour " etc. The only negative is that you get RedLight Cameras, Gatso by speed limit, specs by speed limit but NO mobile camera locations.
Would recommend to anyone.
You havent used navicore and tomtom then, I got you beat 😉
I havent however used the latest route66. Since I have the navigator, I need nokia to release the firmware for my model, as it apperently has the better routing fixes.
I have been hearing nothing but good things about the latest route66. So come on nokia, release it for my Rm please.
As for mobile cameras, I find there to be far to many repprted to make sense anyway.
mgreen21 wrote:has anyone tried r66 mobile 8 yet. i have used my last copy on so many fones that my activation cade has reached its limit.:frown:it looks ok. thinking of buying it. :con?
also i have just got a copy of wayfinder speed alert.
and all i can say is.................................... its not great.😡😡
BUY IT! NOW You can purchase the UK CD Online at 66.com for 60 Euros (£45 UK) inclusive of P&P and that will give you the program and latest UK & Ireland MAP. If you have already sourced the program and UK map elsewhere you can activate the map via GPRS for £33 UK. Either way, that's a bargain...
Don't wait for TomTom to support the N95 internal GPS - which might be never! Route 66 2008 is a major advance on previous versions, and I after a week of using it, I can say that TomTom may as well cancel any plans to release an N95 version of their product, because it won't be any better than R66 v8 and it will definitly be considerably more expensive.
R66 appears 100% stable, and quick to lock on to GPS signal using the internal GPS (I don't use Assisted GPS, so lock-up is usually 30 seconds to 2 minutes).
The MAPS are beautifully rendered, with very smooth rotation and what appears to be quite high frame rates - and a feature I really love (simple things please simple minds?) is the way the map zooms in automatically when you approach a turn point (roundabouts etc) then zooms out again afterwards to show you more of whats around your current position.
The limited navigation I have tested in Scottish Borders is spot on accurate, and has always calculated the optimum route, and of course R66 quickly recalculates a new route if you deviate from the turn instructions given.
Some people will argue that the maps used by R66 are not as detailed, updated less often (the latest UK map is still Q2 2007) and that POI/Speed Camera support is not as easy to install (I refer to free of charge/downloaded POIs) but I think the low price of the product compensates for this, and both POI and Speed camera are available on a subsciption basis.
Activating the maps illegally appears currently to be impossible, so those of you with large overdrafts and moths in your wallets will need to go without at present. However, once again, can I say that for £45UK for the official UK CD, everyone really needs to fully support 66.com for the hard work they have put into making R66 v8 a genuine TomTom killer (at least on the Smartphone platform).
Dez
mgreen21 wrote:now that is interesting.r66 have always missed out on the speed camera band-wagon.
i do like the auto switching from day to night.
and at about £80 its not to far out of reach.😊😊
Only £45 UK for an Online order of the UK/Ireland version. (Including P&P). Visit http://http://www.66.com/route66/products.php?cid=UK&sec=0&ssec=0&prodid=5391
Also as someone else has already mentioned, Speed Cameras warnings are available for a small annual fee.
One thing worth emphasising is that R66 have made a serious effort to prevent piracy of their products, so if you want all R66 features you need to officially license the maps and the speed cameras, etc.
Very well said Des, and I know you have been waiting for a decent satnav as much as I have. Anyone asking for route66 cracks will be banned, I warn you now.
For everyone who has V8, I know the routing has been made vastly better, but does it still have the 'Turn slightly left/right' issue?
At the moment Im wondering if I can simply use the installation sis for V8 on my phone. I have unlocked maps from my initial route66 installed on the firmware, so would it work? Hmmm.
bartmanekul wrote:Very well said Des, and I know you have been waiting for a decent satnav as much as I have. Anyone asking for route66 cracks will be banned, I warn you now.For everyone who has V8, I know the routing has been made vastly better, but does it still have the 'Turn slightly left/right' issue?
At the moment Im wondering if I can simply use the installation sis for V8 on my phone. I have unlocked maps from my initial route66 installed on the firmware, so would it work? Hmmm.
sorry but no. v7 maps wont work with v8.
r66 will run but u can only use the world map.
Bear in mind I have the navigator version, which was supposedly 8. Its listed as version 8, but it still has the bad routing of 7, as nokia refuse to release the firmware update for my product code.
So it remains to be seen if I can run a seperate installation of Version 8.
at that price i just couldnt resist.
arrived yesturday. ran for three hours today no problems.
currently using a south african voice for hilarity, as a gordey this is amusing (no offence to any south africas) but with comedy and reginal dialects coming soon this could get even more funny. havnt payed for speed cameras yet. bit sad there are no mobile ones but anything is better than speedalert.:mad😞only uses 3 sats and if it looses 1 it takes afew secs to find another mean while it doesnt work plus if your not moving it wont tell you anything)
its a bit sad that you cannont move it to a new phone if you get one, only to a replaced phone with a letter from the service centre but you cant realy blame r66 for this with the amount of hacking that went on with there last one.
map unlock is tied into the registry with an encripted file so it should be a while before that is hacked. so people can pass the progarm around as much as they like but u still have to pay. which is good for them!!!😊😊
bartmanekul wrote:Bear in mind I have the navigator version, which was supposedly 8. Its listed as version 8, but it still has the bad routing of 7, as nokia refuse to release the firmware update for my product code.So it remains to be seen if I can run a seperate installation of Version 8.
i it might be worth a try. did you have to unlock just the map?? i havnt used that version be4
If someone wants to send me the sis file, I'll have a go.
bartmanekul wrote:If someone wants to send me the sis file, I'll have a go.
Glass Houses & stones come to mind here
someone give me a sis so I can try my old maps is ok but if you dare ask for a crack on here I will ban you !!!!!!!
I guess you believe cos youre doing it just to see if it works its ok ,just a little grey area, but you others better not try it
fiddles wrote:Glass Houses & stones come to mind here
someone give me a sis so I can try my old maps is ok but if you dare ask for a crack on here I will ban you !!!!!!!
I guess you believe cos youre doing it just to see if it works its ok ,just a little grey area, but you others better not try it
Not at all. The program is not locked, anyone whom has route66 knows its the maps which are locked. Also, its pretty well documented that I have a navigator, which has route66 and your region maps FREE.
I have let people ask for the garmin application, and post links to it. I daresay route66 might have a link to it themselves, if they do an update.
All Im after is the new routing algorithms. This is in the new version of route66, or the firmware update for the 6110, which I cannot get because of my product code. And nokia do not look set to release it.
This is not piracy or illegal in any shape or form.
However, proclaiming your using pirate software, or asking how to obtain cracks for protected things like Garmin maps (or route66 maps) is, hence my stance on it.