Kane still in business???

[gyro]

Anyone know why Kane Technical Support don't answer the telephone or why the Kane Gear web site is falling over?

Gyro

[pmcl]

Apparently Kane Wireless Ltd have been put in receivership. The support number is on answerphone but they will return calls to a landline. They are only there between 10.00am and 2pm.

If you want support advice for a product that is already registered it would be worth leaving your number as they do ring back. If you are trying to register/unlock software to use with a Palm, (like me!) you are out of luck as they can no longer do this.

If you are considering buying Kane software to use with a Palm, don't!! unless it is pre-registsred and you already have the unlock code.

Typical that having taken ages to decide which system to buy I choose one just as the company goes down!

Hope you are luckier than me.

pmcl

[SpeedCam]

Yep Kane are now Bankrupt, I'm glad I didn't upgrade to the new version.....

[NeilM]

I had a registered copy of CarPilot Plus (Destinator based, which I fortunately got pretty cheap) - product was pretty flaky but I got reasonable support from Kane.

I didn't find the new-version upgrade pricing very attractive, however, but the Product it was based-on (Navigon MN4) looked good and received good reviews so I checked-out the Navigon site. Navigon themselves offer a 'Competitive Upgrade' for €99 plus postage, substantially less than the Kane pricing. They honoured this for return of the Kane CD, the product is a vast improvement on the original (Destinator based) Kane product and have been extremely responsive and he lpful on support so far.

[neville]

Hi Everyone,

I just bought a Kane Kit off of ebay and thought I was getting the Ipaq too. Stupid me.

Now I am stuck because I don't have a lot of money and can't get a refund so could you please let me know what is the cheapest Ipaq I could use or which ones are compatible for the software and kit I have.

128mb Flash Memory Card, Car Mount, In-Car charger(3800/3900) and GPS/Sat antenna and software upgrade (3D Software & Maps optimised for the UK.)

I was also wondering is the 3800/3900 the only ones compatible because I found a site with lots of Hp ipaqs and the cheapest was a 3630 or something but how can I find out if that will work with this software and kit. Please I am a complete idiot when it comes to this sort of thing and I need someones help real bad as I do not have a number for Kane Gear and it sounds like they are gone.

Would really appreciate anyones help

ATB

Nev

[phantom]

I (until recently) was using Kane on an iPAQ 3970 and within the limitations of the Kane software it worked well. I also happened to have an iPAQ 3630 so tried the Kane software on it (using a TDK Bluetooth jacket) and found that it worked within the small (around my home) area I tested it in, it was slower but still acceptable but then I got bored and went back to the 3970 which I still use but have switched to Destinator PN software which gets over many of the Kanes shortcomings.

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