ALK’s CoPilot Live gives Nokia N95 some built-in GPS maps
By Will Park on Friday, June 8th, 2007 at 5:09 AM PST In Announcements, Services
ALK has announced their CoPilot Live system to augment the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) N95’s GPS receiver. While the N95 already comes ready serve up GPS positional data, the location maps need to be downloaded through the phone’s wireless data connection. ALK hopes to give N95 users a break on data transfers – and saving them money in the process – by storing GPS maps on removable storage cards.
The CoPilot Live system can provide real-time positional data as well as navigation information – with turn-by-turn, voice navigation, along with on-screen maps. The maps can be viewed in 3D, 2D, and itinerary modes and are only displayed when approaching a turn – otherwise displaying a simple direction prompt (to keep the driver’s attention focused on the road.
Whether on foot or on road, the CoPilot Live’s pre-loaded maps – courtesy of NAVTEQ – offer house-number accuracy in the UK and Ireland. “CoPilot Live for the Nokia N95 will be available through T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) and Carphone Warehouse stores
nationally and online.”
via: copilotlive
Really? Last time I looked, CoPilot for S60 3rd Edition needed 15MB of RAM to run….. The N95 is RAM-challenged…. I can forsee more than a few resource problems here.
Also, CoPilot’s routing (on my last 3rd Edition version) was as appalling as Nokia Maps’ …. 8-(
Where’s TomTom when you need them?
Steve
I agree that CoPilot may be memory demanding.
Still, I love them for their fleet management solutions (I think it’s called that way). For instance, one of my previous clients sells flowers online in London. We’ve found that CoPilot worked best for the job. TomTom wasn’t even close.
Then again for personal use, I would always go with TomTom.
Probably a lot of changes have been fixed since the last build, route calculation is way faster then Nokia maps