TomTom Navigation app for Android

[NitroFan]

Hi Louis2

I wont be waiting thats for sure! I have just bought CoPilot SUPERB sums their incredible product up in one word! It has ALL the features of TomTom and at the price I was asked to pay it makes my former symbian TomTom product  look like a total rip off at £80 plus!

[Louis2]

It is a shame that it had to come down to this. I thought TomTom was better than this.

[lakanooky2]

This may help people till Tomtom get there finger out

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pocketgpsworld.cameralert

[BarnOwl]

Agreed CoPilot is not bad but its GUI is NOT as good as Tomtom.

It wont bring up camera locations without a route being input

it wont do mobile Camera points

And although I have a Galaxy Tab why should I run a second application for that purpose i.e. pocketgpsworld cameralert.

I like many other Old Tomtom users want our much liked GUI of Tomtom and one application that does everything.

I just cannot understand why they are not jumping in to the "Android World" by the figures I posted in earlier posts it proves they could do with the business, unless there is some truth that Apple are behind it and threatening to block Tomtom from iPhones etc unless they do not make it for Android

[Louis2]

That could be true of Apple. It sounds like something that Apple would do or is capable of doing. But that was the case then it does not say much for what TomTom does meaning that it can be buyed by a company like Apple.

[BarnOwl]

who is the biggest seller of Android Phones & Tablets Samsung

Who has Apple got a on going fight over how their android stuff looks so much like iPhones Samsung

Android is beating iphones in to second place sales wise how to stop them ? make one of the most liked nav programs unavailable

[NitroFan]

Hi Barnowl,

After using CoPilot extensively this the weekend.

I am not sure I can agree with all you say, GUI is a very personal thing, I find Co Pilots interface very simple customisable and I certainly prefer it to the non existent TomTom Android variant!

I also LOVE CoPilot licensing, it seems CoPilot is licensed to the user NOT an individual device!! so I now have Co Pilot on my personal Phone my Business Phone AND my 10” Tablet which makes a great GPS device when mounted off my windscreen especially when in busy towns where the small screen devices including the TomToms fail so badly!

Mobile Cameras?
In all the years I had my TomTom I never once received a warning for a mobile camera so I am missing out on nothing there.

Pre Viewing Cameras?
As for showing not showing cameras until you input a route, unless the user is a road racer (and by default a danger to other road users) why would anyone want to know where a safety camera is located, unless your actually driving by one? I use GPS to give me the best route, not the one with the least cameras I think that defeats the object of GPS but that is just my opinion.

Not Jumping into Android?
I think I have an idea why I dont think its all about volume sales, I belive its about about compatibility with Apple IOS TomTom only has to work flawlessly with one set of Hardware and one reasonably stable OS (Nirvana for any sw developer) Android HW is diverse (it can make quite a difference too how SW runs) and the OS environment is fragmented “Vanilla” Android is far from the norm customised UI’s are.

I believe all that has a good deal to do with why TomTom when for what was back then THE benchmark for SmartPhones iPhone (I don’t like em but they sell loads and for the most part they do work right out of the box!)

If TomTom have decided to ignore Android for so long it’s for a reason, an exclusive with Apple may be the reason it makes sense to me however If TomTom made its products available on Android, of course I would take a look but they would have to be licensed as sensibly as CoPilot is and offer some very clear advantages over CoPilot before I would be prepared to part with any money for them now.

[BarnOwl]

Sorry if your not worried about speed / safety Cameras you must drive really slowly and be a boring driver.

I have been driving for 46 years and since the second half of my working life before becoming disabled (due to the first half) I drove Trucks for a living at one stage then became a transport manager so I think I speak for most "Professional Drivers" in saying that Tomtom's ability to show the mobile cameras helps to even up the odds for "Professional Drivers".

As for your comments about Android sorry but your either living in the last century or you have ignored all the previous posts and links that prove that Android is now the biggest OS for new phones beating Apple in to second place and of the Android makers Samsung who have a dispute on going with Apple the biggest of those.

Strike's me your a more money than sense Apple user secure in the knowledge that if you paid out more money for your iPad then its got to be better than My Galaxy Tab sorry but your wrong IMHO.

[NitroFan]

Hey there is no need to be aggressive or rude when someone disagrees with your statements.

I feel the need to put the record straight,

I did not say anywhere that I am not worried about safety cameras (show me if you think I have) its one reason I needed a better type of GPS than was available to me via my Samsung Galaxy s2 Android handset or my HTC Wildfire handset Android or my Asus TF101 Android Tablet! And use GPS! (Note no Apple products owned or used)

Sorry to disagree but if you read my post properly you will see the fact is in all the time I used TomTom it never once warned me of a mobile camera! not once and that is a fact.

No transport manger I ever worked for (I am also an ex HGV 3 “Professional Driver”) for planned a route on the basis of no cameras it would simply make no sense to do so.

Yes I do drive responsibly and keep to the speed limits if that is “boring” so be it but my licence is important to my current job, excessive speed is the cause in more accidents that almost any other factor, as a “transport manager” I would have thought you of all people would be aware of that fact.

But as a transport manger surely you would only want responsible drivers who stick to the limits working for you? It was drummed into us “your licence is your living” perhaps that ethos has changed?


I am well aware that Android has the larger user base but you seem to have ignored the reasons WHY I think TomTom are ignoring the android market at present! I suggest you read my post again properly this time as it makes almost every attack you make on it look rather silly.

This is a forum where people express their views you seem to think it is a place to attack anyone who does not take what you say as gospel and ranting like some adolescent Android “fan boy” gives you very little credibility. But as you have I will state again I do not own any Apple products I do not like the company’s “You do it our way or no way” ethos.

[BarnOwl]

I am not saying "PLAN ROUTES" around cameras but if Drivers are aware of them then they are better off for it and if your Tomtom never told you then either you didnt set it up or didnt get the POI updates (they do cost) for Speed Camera's and thats your own fault and loss. My old XDA still runs a old version of Tomtom and still picks up Cameras (You can get them for any Tomtom Nav system you just need to pay for them (gpsworld is a good place to start) but as I siad you need to add the POI's.

And I was HGV 1 and was a transport Manager for three different firms till I retired through ill health / becoming disabled.