Destinator PN

jellied · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the potted review - very useful.

Just two questions:

1. When you navigate to a favourite (not a POI) can you order the items into distance ? So if you have added all Tescos into a favourite, can you find the nearest?

2. Is the post code routing still by the outer code and one character? For example EC1M 3 rather than EC1M 3JY?

efjay · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 29

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robinl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 10

jellied:

To navigate to a fouvourite you need to select the specific item. To answer the question if you set the Home button to point to the Tesco POI (possibly by selecting Tesco petrol stations) then you can anvigate to the nearest member of the POI. I do not think you can navigate to the nearest member of a Favourites category although you can try adding a new POI category with members.

Post code searching is outward plus the digit of inward ie EC1M 3. this appears find for streets with house numbers it is poor for streets with house names.

s93ncer

Display of the screen will be a PDA function. Mine is set to display when on external power and to turn off when on battery power. If the charger is not connected in the car it keeps turning off or going dim.

Robin

efjay · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 29

Can anyone comment on the voice prompts in PN? Have they changed to give more detail when to make a turn; eg do you get a prompt telling you what side of the road to stay on if you have consecutive turns coming up? I have found that with D3 i have missed some turns because i have been on the wrong side of the road after making one turn and then get a prompt to make another. I have seen the demo on OCN's website and it tells you to bear left or right with more than one turn.

efjay · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 29

Spudson · Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:01 pm Post subject:

Efjay,

Can you update your profile to at least divulge which country you're based in - although your responses suggest the US.

Within Europe, the www.destinatoreurope.com website details that the map data is Q4 2004, which is pretty recent in my view.

As far as the US version is concerned, I'm not so sure - you might need to post a message on the support forum (I don't have access as I don't have this software).

Enjoy...

S

mato · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 08, 2004 Posts: 12

My Destinator PN has finally arrived and I have one queston. It is not clear to me, if the destinator software itself can go on memory card, or it has to be in main memory?
The same question is for Text-to-speech engine. When installed on memory card, it was not working properly.

Mr_Walker · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 03, 2005 Posts: 2

Hello, i'm really interested in the update from comwave. But i dont understand any german. is there somwhere you can get that info in english (or swedish)?

I saw people saying that you has to return your copy of Destinator 3 to get the upgrade, will any version of D3 be ok. I got Destinator 3 scandinavia.

/Mr Walker

robinl · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 17, 2005 Posts: 10

efjay, some answers:

Voice Prompts. I find that they are reasonable with bear left or bear right before a junction. However when junctions are close together it can issue the bear ... command after the road has started to split. I had this problem in London this weekend.

You can use the pop up PPC keyboard (or presumably an external keyboard) for input.

The maps are stated to be Q4 2004 and appear to be upto date. In general terms they seem the same as Autoroute 2005.

Good luck

Robin

efjay · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 03, 2005 Posts: 29

Robin, thanks for the reply. I think PN is the option for me

Spudson · Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:32 pm Post subject:

Robinl

Thanks for the update. Can you advise whether your actual speed can be displayed during navigation?

Many thx.

S

travisb · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:16 pm Post subject:

Can confirm you can have your speed (velocity) shown whilst navigating, via the Route details button in the bottom left of the screen. This button can also show ETA, ETR etc
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Spudson · Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject:

Thx Travisb.

Can you tell me how you enable this? I only had the chance to review an off-line version of PN recently and it only showed the ETA and Distance to go.

Additionally, how visible is it?

Many thx.

S

travisb · Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 9:41 pm Post subject:

The button shows various options in rotation when you press it, as does the one above it. It's very visible, especially in landscape mode.
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Spudson · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject:

Travisb,

Apologies - what I meant was how visible is the information? Is it using small typeface or nice large fonts??

Many thx.

S

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