POI-Warner and difference in costs SEE IN PLEASE

budgie55

Hi all

OK first of all would like to post a link to the ENGLISH front page for POI-Warner POI software http://www.navigating.de/Home_en/index.htm Should come in handy for the non German speaking of the board Mr. Green

OK on to my main question/point

Has anyone else noticed that there seems to be a difference in the cost of the POI-Warner software for the TomTom and the Medion PDA software/hardware. On their site the quote €29.9 for the Medion version of the software and only €19.9 for the TomTom version.

Now when you download the bundles the medion bundle seems to be version 2.3 and the TomTom version 2.4, I cant see any other differences in the actual software. In fact I was under the impression that the 2 were identical?

Can anyone enlighten me who has had experience with both of the packages concerned. On the face of it to me it seems that both packages are the same if not identical and there could potentially be a €10 saving for people here??

Any info would be appreciated

Cheers

Allan

lbendlin · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 3:48 pm Post subject:

Allan,

those packages tap directly into TomTom and Navigon software. For that you need a SDK , a Software Development Kit. The kit is extremely expensive (a thousand quid or so) and therefore the POI Warner application is also slightly more expensive.

The UI of the POI warner may look the same, but the DLLs to access TomTom or Navigon kernel APIs are different. So you cannot use the TomTom POIWarner with the Navigon software, and vice versa.

The more people buying the Navigon version the more likely it is that its price will go down. Right now the developer needs to cover the cost of purchase of the SDK.
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budgie55 · Posted: Tue May 11, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

Great info there thank you.

I should have really thought about it from that point of view however I have done so much reading into GPS and PDAs over the last week my brain hurts.

Learned soooooooo much from this site and always appreciate everyones help, its been a real learning curve Smile

Cheers

Allan Thumbs Up

DavidW · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 4:00 pm Post subject:

I suspect there's other economic factors at play, too - there's the free CheckPOInt for TomTom, as well as the commercial GPSAssist.

I don't believe there's any alternative, free or paid for, to POI Warner for Navigon users.

David

budgie55 · Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

yeah I agree David

Suppose they arent reall that expensive for either really given the functionality you get out of them I mean £20 or so not even 1/4 of a night out now days Smile

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