Sygic Navigation: 2 for 1 Christmas Offer

MaFt

Sygic have today launched their 2 for 1 Christmas offer for Android users on top of their 30% discount. Simply purchase any of the Android versions of the app from their own E-Shop to receive an extra license that you can give to a friend. iOS users can only take advantage of the 30% discount due to the way the AppStore is run.

tomjerrycan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 03, 2012 Posts: 4

This is a no-brainer in my opinion

I got this offer last year it was £17.99 then too, I split the cost with a friend £8.99 each and got 2 licenses through in separate emails, turned out to be a brilliant deal as you can swap between devices as many times as you like, comes with free Speedcams and POI's built in which are really very good..
Lifetime map updates and the maps are stored on your SD card for complete offline useage, Sygic uses Tomtom maps too and they are smooth and look great, Sygic have also added a new HUD display for in-car use against your windscreen although I haven't upgraded to that as its a paid for upgrade..

Love using Sygic..even when out walking in Cambridge in the summer it didn't put a foot wrong and pointed out many things I never knew were there!

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

Good find MaFt.

I downloaded the 7 day trial this morning and have been using it most of the day.

I'm very impressed, Sygic appears to have come a long way since I tried it and dismissed it on Android a couple of years ago. Best of all it works on my Moto Razr whereas TT doesn't and its easy to import 3rd party POI's such as the PgpsW camera data base.

I'm probably going to get the World version as a Christmas present to myself. It's much cheaper and more useful than the set of OS maps I was contemplating for my SatMap A10.

EDIT - Decided not to buy after all. It doesnt appear to fit me as well as I though it would.
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K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Unfortunately they're not including Truck in the twofer deals, at least I couldn't find it.

Truck is ideal for use in Motorhomes, due to the height and width limits.

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Has anyone managed to convert the ov2 files into upi I've tried doing it and it just crashes.

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 9:39 pm Post subject:

what are you using to convert the files?

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

I downloaded something but it kept crashing so I got rid of it, I cleaned my history afterwards, (do it daily) so not sure what it was called, so still looking for something which is known to work.

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 10:45 am Post subject:

What OV2 files are you trying to convert. If PGPSW cams, then download the right file, not the OV2 and use the Sygic converter.

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Yes I realised that, but it's my own POIs created over many years which I have only just managed to retrieve that I would like to convert to upi.

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 11:09 am Post subject:

Presumably you have tried converting OV2 to CSV then using Sygic's converter to make the RUPI file?

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Err, no, I didn't know I could do that Sad

sounds complicated to me, I hoped POIEdit would do it, but it seems not, there must be a program which will do a straight convert, but Google is struggling to find one.

M8TJT · Posted: Sat Dec 21, 2013 12:40 pm Post subject:

You probably won't find one. The .RUPI seems to be a Sygic 'thing'. I haven't tried it, but I think the POI Edit should convert OV2 to CSV??? Can someone confirm this.

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

Long term I could simply go to the ov2 place and then create upi POI, but that might take years.

I like the app very much but they may have shot themselves in the foot by making it difficult to transfer POIs which some of us might have taken years to accumulate, which is a shame.

But it seems to OV2 to CSV to UPI is apparently possible, so I'll have to look in to that route for now Smile

AliOnHols · Pocket GPS Verifier Joined: Oct 15, 2008 Posts: 1936

K13ehr · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 286

I'm just glad I decided call on the combined wisdom of the forum.

I think I may pass on it, until they decide to join in with the rest of the planet and use either a compatible file format or at least provide a conversion program that does it one hit and works once it has done so.

Shame, I liked the app more than any of the others I've tried so far, quite logical to use and a clearly defined navigation screen.

Mayb ethe next issue will have sorted these little but important issues.

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