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iGuidance 2009 includes the highly accurate 2008 digital map from Navteq Corporation, and most importantly, adds several useful features such as traffic pattern, pedestrian walk routing options, as well as 3D realistic junction/exchange view as an eye candy. iGuidance's built-in safety options also expanded from the original speed & fog alert to incorporate school zone and fatigue alerts with this release.
Features:
# New! Program & map preloaded & shipped on 4GB microSD card (miniSD & SD adapters included)
# New! Navteq 2008 map
# New! Pedestrian route mode
# New! 3D/Realistic Junction/Exchange view (2800+)
# New! Parked car locator
# Text to speech (TTS) (street name in voice guidance)
# Extended POI listings (6 millions)
# Pre-generated seamless map for entire N. America (1.3GB)
# Automatic font sizing for POI's w/ long names
# Multiple stopover/itinerary planning
# Bordered roads and railroad/pedestrian & major roads marking
# On-screen trip info
# Trip stats recording
# Enhanced 3D display & map drawing
# Shortcut buttons to "home" and "POI"
# Turn-by-turn visual instructions with voice prompts
# Search by city or street first, intersection, city center, POI, LAT/LON, contacts, favorites, and recent
# Route list display
# Dynamic rerouting
# Street name in both 2D & 3D
# Detailed map display w/ street names & trip info
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Technical Details
- 1. Starting this year, PC and Pocket PC versions will be sold as 2 separate products. Please note that current batch of v2009 PocketPC version will only support wm5/6 PocketPC/PocketPC phones w/ 240x320, 320x240, 480x640, and 640x480 screen resolution. It will NOT work w/ 240x240, 320x320, 400x240, 240x400, etc.- 2. Compatible with Windows Mobile 5.0/6.0/6.1.
- 3. For full or upgrade versions, make sure your device is able to support the size of iGuidance data card you choose to purchase (4 or 8GB). Each order will be shipped on a standard 4 or 8GB microSDHC card kit including adapters to fit miniSDHC and SDHC slots. Customers whose PocketPC does not support 4/8GB cards may order 2GB microSD version instead (adapters included) directly from iNav Corporation.
- 4. iGuidance Pocket PC version will only run with the original data card shipped.
- 5. Choose from 4GB or 8GB version.
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By Brad A (USA)
The overall menu (GUI) is pretty good from my point of view. The menu buttons are for the most part self explanatory and with the HELP button (a very nice touch) it's not hard to find your way around this thing. The map display is pretty good and gives several options on how it's displayed. Another nice touch is the emergency feature of just touching the "Vehicle symbol" and getting local emergency info/directions on Police, Hospitals and the like. Options on the whole are pretty complete; enough that I'm not going to talk about most of them because I'm sure I'll ramble too much anyway. I will say though I haven't had a chance to see the real view junction thing, with only 3000 I didn't expect too much with that small of a %.
The different ways to search for something by alphabetical, distance and maybe City/State (sorry I can't remember for some reason how that worked) are ok and it even tells you what direction per a little arrow it is from you. It doesn't support searching along the route just what's near your current position. You really can't fault that, as far as I know there's only one that does it on PC. The restaurant search luckily has an ALL button to help with finding the ones you just don't know how to classify. Burger King would be listed under fast food but Angela's can be a little difficult to figure out when you're out of town and meeting friends there. This does bring me to one of my first disappointments about this soft. All the buttons are very finger friendly except when you get to the search area (I think this is just for the Alpha search), for some reason they left the on screen keyboard at full size and give you this tiny little window and even smaller arrow keys. I think the display window for searches will only show about 2 lines of 15~20 characters (think of an old calculator with a two line display). Something it does nicely during this search and other input modes, is the auto complete feature. Kinda sorta similar to phones but this one will also show you names and places with the letters in them. If you type "urg" and nothing in its database starts with that it switches to Burger King with urg highlighted.
By far the biggest cons for this soft would be' the card setup; POI handling; menu options that just don't work in a way that makes sense; and the routing has some issues too. I have an iPaq 211 used for work/play and thought this soft would be a nice addition sense I carry it around all the time anyway. With the program locked to the card I can't use any of the other much/bigger better ones I have already. On top of that sense the 211 has both an SD and CF card slot, I can't start this without pulling out both cards and just having the proprietary one in by itself. Apparently even though the program wont work without the original card in, it still looks to the CF card first and if its not the right one it shuts down with no errors (it took 2 days and several back and forth e-mails from i-nav to figure that out). The POI handling should have been done with some kind of update/add option. I haven't had any problems with missing or wrong streets but the POI databases is lacking badly. One instance was a recent trip to a large chain store that had been there for at least 3 years but was not listed. On the other hand a very, very out of the way local store was. The routing seems ok most of the time but it has sent me way of track. I've never had a problem eventually getting to were I need to go. On a resent trip (600+ miles) it took me on a 300 mile detour (the whole detour was 300 start to finish, I can't say how much it added to total trip mileage). I read somewhere it has historical data on traffic that can and will effect your routing. In my case it shunted me up to another interstate by way of back roads/old highways instead of going thro a major city. On the way back it let me go thro but that was a Sunday early morning. If this is the case and it was trying to save me then great, but either way it took 2 more hours going then coming back because of it. The destination handling is problematic under certain circumstances. This coupled with itinerary or stop over options can leave a bad taste. On one instance while trying it out I had it "stop over" at a local supermarket. When I arrived in the parking lot it had the destination target somewhere in the store, without physically reaching that I couldn't proceed to my next stop without starting the trip again. Another trip had the target on the large property but no where near the entrance so again I either had to drive around the back or just start the trip over (there maybe away around this but didn't look to hard for it). This brings up another menu problem. While on a trip its way to easy to cancel your whole route by accident if you don't complete the adjustments the way it wants. What I mean by that is if you try and use the stop over option to find a restaurant or gas and don't see one you want; exiting that search can exit the trip altogether. The fog alert is mostly useless. The idea is to warn you of any 4 way intersection that may have cross traffic. The problem is it sounds when you get to the intersection not before. On a highway doing 60 it would sound after it was too late to do anything about it anyway. The Route Demo is an unbelievable joke. It will show you in real time the whole trip with turns and voice props. To explain that further; if your planning a trip that will take 9 hours the Demo will take 9 hours too. It's completely worthless unless you're into watching paint dry then It may be worth something (if I'm wrong about this and someone can point out how to do it right let me know). I think the longest I let it go was 30 seconds.
All in all I'm still giving 3 stars for the many features that do work well and it has never gotten me lost. Plus with the possibility of update/fixes and some third party POI tools, there's hope for even the things wrong with it.
By M. NEGRON (Waterford, MI)
I have been using IGuidance since version 2.0. This software has been getting better and better. I combines a lot of the features that others have. In this revision they included Maps for Puerto Rico, USVI, Alaska and HI. I used to like the feature in past versions where you could create a mile radious for the are you where going to be at so that the maps were smaller and faster...but I guess sometimes something has to give. The fact that you now have all the maps stored in the card saves time. Which, by the way, forced me to give the product 4 stars instead of 5. Locking the software to THEIR card handicaps some of us... The card sizes are 4 and 8Gb but the bad part is that their cards are rated at class 4 and not 6... I use my PDA phone for Iguidance and I have a lot of data in it including my MP3 files and 8gb is cutting it short. I would rather have the option to have the software stored in a 16Gb class 6 card even if it comes at a cost. I called INav and asked if I could provide my own card and they said that they could not accommodate that request. In any event, Iguidance is still my preferred navigation program for the Pocket PC. Two cool things I like are; Turn by Turn navigation with side of the road indication of the destination and school zone warnings. The only thing that still remains in my wish list is the ability to edit FAVORITES in my Laptop/Desktop PC since the PDA phone keyboards are too small. I would highly recommend this product.
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