A Co-Pilot Live (Droid) Review.

Hey thanks for the review! I always wondered if there was a truck app for the droid. I'm downloading it as we speak... I got the North America one for $20. Sounds like a good deal.

Last week I went from Omaha, Ne to Sabetha, KS. My gps signal was non-existent for most of the trip. Have you had problems with the GPS signal getting lost?

 

I have been using the "Live 8" for Android. With the live search, it tells you what the names of the truck stops are. It's the car version, so I don't trust it completely.

 

The truck one is $149.99. Sounds like your running the one I am. As for the GPS, that happens sometimes. Restarting the phone will usually fix it. I'm running the Droid1, soon to upgrade to the Thunderbold (someday ).

 

Please keep posting about this app. I'm in the market for a truck gps and I'm curious to see if this app is working for you.

I'm wondering if having the truck gps as part of your phone/mp3 player/calculator/etc makes it harder to use.

I'm a student and am looking for a gps unit. I recently took a car road-trip from Florida to Kentucky and used the Google Navigation app. Having to take my phone out of the car each time I stopped, then re-starting the trip, was kind of a pain.

Also, my phone frequently lost the gps signal. Do you know if that happens with gps dedicated units?

 

###### now I see the truck one. Oh well, if this one works well, I'll buy the truck one. $150 is still a lot cheaper than the $500 stand alones that I was looking at. I tried restarting my phone several times and it took a while to work. Now it works fine. *shrugs*

Also I found a demo on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLHovEEfEzc


I wonder if there's a way to teather it to your computer, and use a laptop as a screen...

 

You could buy the laptop version and seperate gps receiver to plug into the laptop, here is the link to their site for the different download options, http://www.alk.com/pro/store/

 

http://www.dieselboss.com/travrout/CPTordering.htm

Would this work for using the laptop? It can have an add-on GPS antenna. Little more expensive, but the plus would be using your laptop screen instead of the phone screen.

 

Now I'm confused. I was doing a lot of research, and the 8 got a lot of rave reviews.

http://www.laptopgpsworld.com/323-review-alk-copilot

On one site it said to get a newer version, and that 8 was obsolete. I then looked at the 11, and it got nothing but poor reviews.

http://www.amazon.com/CoPilot-Live-...8DKM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298251199&sr=8-1

I can't find it anymore, but another review had two reviews of the 11, and only gave it an average of one star. Why would a newer version of the program be more buggy? What am I missing?

 

They seem to do a wierd thing and count down their versions. V11 was their first released in '07(It did have terrible reviews) and V9 was their last version and V8 is the current version. If V8 is obsolete someone forgot to inform the manufaturer since that is the only version they offer on their website, http://www.alk.com/copilot/