Copilot GPS for Droid X

 

I have a Droid X with Verizon. I would like to know if I download Copilot GPS to my phone if I will have to pay a monthly fee like Verizon charges?

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wilber012 wrote:

I have a Droid X with Verizon. I would like to know if I download Copilot GPS to my phone if I will have to pay a monthly fee like Verizon charges?

No. Copilot will work without the phone being connected. Enjoy.

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Copilot GPS for Droid X

Thanks for the information.

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wilber012 wrote:

... will have to pay a monthly fee like Verizon charges?

Are you referring to VZ Navigator? If so, you can use Google Maps navigation which is free. Or you can purchase CoPilot. I use both. Mostly Google Maps, but also CoPilot which I purchased in case I'm ever in a situation where I might lose my data connection.

Yes I was referring to VZ

Yes I was referring to VZ Navgator.

Nope, the $4.95 is a one-time fee.

wilber012 wrote:

Yes I was referring to VZ Navgator.

I can state (having used CoPilot for Android and loving it) that (unlike VZ Navigator) you don't need to pay a monthly charge, nor do you have to have the phone on at all to use CoPilot--at least you don't with the G2 and other phones.

Also--and just as important--I've not heard any reports of Verizon deliberately crippling the GPS in its Android phones. (Fortunately, the Android is rather harder to cripple in this way than WinMo phones. Verizon DID have a nasty habit of deliberately crippling WinMo and Blackberry devices to only use VZ Navigator till they got sued over it, and the "correction patch" for the Omnia never did quite work right in my experience.)

I've actually successfully used CoPilot Live in airplane mode where EVERY radio source was turned off with the exception of the GPS receiver (yes, you can actually leave the GPS on whilst turning off everything else--something I love with the Android phones that I dearly wish WinMo had included) and it worked perfectly fine.

The biggest thing re CoPilot Live (in my experience) is waiting for all the maps to download when it's started for the first time (took a bit on mine, then again, it also downloaded 1.3GB of its own maps to the SD card). After that, pretty much you're golden--you can even put your own POIs or POIFactory POIs (in OV2 format) on, and you're good to go. grin

(And yes, I am with a different provider (T-Mobile) that supposedly gives unlimited data--but they DO start throttling at 5GB/month traffic, and I'd rather save my gigs for things other than downloading maps--at least for road traffic. It's also handy if you're in an area with poor cell coverage, like, oh, most of eastern Kentucky grin)

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kusuriurikun wrote:

The biggest thing re CoPilot Live (in my experience) is waiting for all the maps to download when it's started for the first time (took a bit on mine, then again, it also downloaded 1.3GB of its own maps to the SD card).

CoPilot has a free PC companion program called CoPilot Central. http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/central/

It allows you to download the maps to your computer and then transfer the maps to your phone. MUCH quicker than downloading the maps directly on the phone.

In the "And knowing is half the battle..." department...

GadgetGuy2008 wrote:
kusuriurikun wrote:

The biggest thing re CoPilot Live (in my experience) is waiting for all the maps to download when it's started for the first time (took a bit on mine, then again, it also downloaded 1.3GB of its own maps to the SD card).

CoPilot has a free PC companion program called CoPilot Central. http://www.alk.eu.com/copilot/central/

It allows you to download the maps to your computer and then transfer the maps to your phone. MUCH quicker than downloading the maps directly on the phone.

Indeed--and I found about that app after I'd already used CoPilot Live to download maps grin At least I know about it now, though, which makes stuff easier when maps need updating in future...

(Just to clarify--in my particular case, I actually used the wifi on the phone to download the maps, not the data connection. So it'd probably be as slow either with computer or with phone--but at least I could let the computer idle. This is one of those things I do wish I'd known about starting out...)

Of course, this also makes life easier for folks starting out for the first time :3

Android Vs I-Phone

Would there be much different using an Android Vs the I-Phone for the Copilot. Ready to make the big jump and not sure which one to buy.

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1997 Triple E Empress, Freightliner CAT 3126B, Allison MD-3060, 6 Speed 2001 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, Blue Ox tow bar And I am loving it. God -> Men -> Government. Proud member of the Tea Party. “In God We Trust;” in Liberty we thrive.

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OneRVer wrote:

Would there be much different using an Android Vs the I-Phone for the Copilot. Ready to make the big jump and not sure which one to buy.

Hard to say without doing a direct comparison, but I would guess the two versions are similar if not identical.

As far as iPhone vs android, I'd say go with your gut. Despite what fanboys will say I don't think one platform has a clear advantage over the other.

Android

My gut says Android. Thanks for the honest answer.

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1997 Triple E Empress, Freightliner CAT 3126B, Allison MD-3060, 6 Speed 2001 Jeep Wrangler Sahara, Blue Ox tow bar And I am loving it. God -> Men -> Government. Proud member of the Tea Party. “In God We Trust;” in Liberty we thrive.