Ok, why is everyone buying TomTom & not CoPilot?

Sun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 13

I've been waiting for the last few months to buy GPS for my SPV C500, at the time TomTom wasn't out for the SPV but now it is. I have read both reviews and my own personal preference would be CoPilot as there are no additional GPRS costs for updates etc and it has that nifty thing where people can track you and send you questions.

What I don't get though is how that forum is now practically dead whereas this one has posts everyday.

So can you guys explain what is attracting you to TomTom over CoPilot, have I missed something?

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ZrednaZ · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 21, 2004 Posts: 10

Hmm... well for one thing it won't run on my Nokia 6600 - I guess that's the obvious reason Laughing

Also I've never seen it in any online shops... Guess it just isn't popular enough to get a good share of the market for these products...

The choice of which one to buy was rather simple in my case... My three options were Wayfinder, Route66 and TomTom Mobile. I didn't want to be dependent on GPRS coverage, thus ruling out Wayfinder.
This left me with Route66 and TomTom, so I checked out their websites. Turned out that Route66's Danish website was translated very, very poorly, and I can't bring myself to take a company like that seriously. Also I couldn't seem to find Wayfinder or Route66 in any online stores. These elements combined made TomTom the natural choice... Smile

(not that I've actually bought it yet, I'm getting it next week)

lbendlin · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject:

Copilot is less controversial than TomTom - that's why the forum there is quieter. CoPilot Smartphone just works...
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gstenson · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 5:13 pm Post subject:

A number of my work colleagues are very disappointed with CoPilot and after seeing my TTM want to buy it instead.
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Sun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 13

I guess it could be that copilot has less issues, you could be right there.

Gstenson I'm curious to know what your colleagues feel is better about TT and why you chose TT yourself.

Skippy · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject:

babybob · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:12 pm Post subject:

Here's my two cents

1) TomTom has more users, therefore more people posting

2) TomTom seems to have a stronger developer community and therefore more tools / ideas to discuss, TomTom from what Ive seen have more developer resources which may explain this

3) Its considerably cheaper!

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lbendlin · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 10:38 pm Post subject:

gstenson · Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:44 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:43 am Post subject:

CoPilot Traffic does incur GPRS costs and will require subscription just as TomTom Mobile does.

Personally I find CoPilot Mobile's interface less intuitive and the application is less stable than TT Mobile. It also requires adjustment of the handset settings to prvent the screen saver appearing when CoPilot is active which is a pain when it is not and the screen does not switch off! TomTom manage to handle this automatically.
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zeroknowledge · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:15 pm Post subject:

The traffic upfdates are delivered via GPRS for which there is a cost that your Cellphone Service Provider will bill you as well as a subscription fee payable to the Traffic Data Service Provider to be able to access the updates.

This is exactly the same as TomTom Mobile.
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Skippy · Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject:

Sun · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 18, 2004 Posts: 13

Ok, I'm slipping towards TomTom more now as a result of further research and this thread, plus it's cheaper :o

A few Q's

Realistically what kind of GPRS costs are people incurring with the traffic master update?

Is that the only thing GPRS is used for, so if I don't get it I'll be making a single payment for the TT setup and that's it?

CoPIlot gave others the ability to track where you were, your expected etc etc via a url you could publish to them, does TT?

With use of the above, people could send you simple YES/NO Q's to your phone while enroute, can TT?

I've seen TT on GlobalPositiong for £168, is there anywhere cheaper?

Cheers

babybob · Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:14 pm Post subject:

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