Sygic Europe back in App store!

Darren · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject:

I've just loaded up Sygic and first impressions are pretty good. But why haven't they used the standard iPhone UI for navigating lists and menus and the much better standard keyboard?

It's already annoying the heck out of me having to peck at an up/down arrow rather than swipe to scoll and the keyboard is much less convenient that the standard iPhone version.
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3GGG · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:51 pm Post subject:

I agree Darren, it is clearly a port from another platform and not up to native iPhone app standards. I guess that they would have to totally rewrite it otherwise, so they have used this hardware abstraction layer instead.

I wonder how SatNav apps are going to be updated on the iPhone - does it mean another 1.8GB download every time they fix a few bugs or add a new feature - if so this will surely slow down development.

anothergpsmike · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:36 pm Post subject:

I believe a few posters and Sygic themselves have pointed out it is a port of their mobile maps app. Not surprising its not perfectly iPhone!. Maybe later it'll be tidied up

I finally gave in and got the euro one - after seeing how much cheaper the US one is against the "America" NOT, it didn't seem worth waiting for a UK one. Sygic still have made no mention. Possibly they're do a UK only mobile maps first?

BTW for anyone who has a fairly full phone - depite clearing some stuff so I had 2.6 GB free iTunes still said not enough space. Found out it needs something like 1.5GB for the installer (which is cleared after). I have about 6GB of music and 7 of bird id. video. and had to sync without music, and then again with, as the apps install first. Apple support is less than clear and talks about backing up everything and restoring the phone - you don't need to do that.

Did leave me with an hour and 50 to download and about the same again to sync Sygic and resync the music though!

Cheers, Mike

mikealder · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:58 pm Post subject:

I would like the Sygic installer to offer us the option as to which country maps you want installed, for example a full Sygic install with just the GBR is only 246MB as opposed to the full European build which is nearly eight times as large!
If cost isn't a factor between purchasing the European release or regional (if they ever release regional builds) storage capacity is going to be an issue, I have 16GB to play with but its rapidly being consumed by huge map files that often contain countries not required - Mike

anothergpsmike · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:18 pm Post subject:

Mike (A)/Darren et al. I've just found this. Look on the Navigon update out thread under iPhone and from Ashley Hinton theres a way to access the app folders etc. for mac and Navigon. I've just done the same on my PC for Sygic and have found the maps folder with all the different countries. AS Ashley says back up everything first. So back up the Itunes sygic folder then copy and rename (possibly hidden file extension) to .zip. Unzip and you can then access the sygic folders and files. I have not yet tried editing but I guess if you delete the unwanted maps/countries, rezip rename back to .ipa and then resave to the iTunes folder. Delete from iphone then resync you should have it. The GBR folder also contains cameras in a CAM folder - we may be able to do pgpsw in that?. All this without jailbreak but a bit of resynching. Should work but I haven't tried it yet. Anyone brave enough? I guess if you back up the iPhone first should be no problem. GBR is 181 MB!

Mike

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anothergpsmike · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:34 pm Post subject:

Oh well thanks Mike - I suppose it didt did seem a bit easy. And to FTP you need to jailbreak?

Mike

MikeB · Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:35 pm Post subject:

davast · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:21 pm Post subject:

Darren · Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

As reviewed by me here.
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grommit · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 06, 2006 Posts: 2

Hi

Just on the subject of pricing for the UK only version of Sygic, I wrote to them and they advise that the price will be £49.99 - so I bought the full European kit which seemed a much better deal.

They also advised that maps will not be changeable, so if you buy the UK one you will not be able to add maps, rather you will have to purchase a whole new system.

On a positive note, routing from contacts is a planned addition as I think was mentioned earlier in the thread.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Mark

3GGG · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that update, I don't feel so bad about paying what I did for the Europe version now, however the problem with the European version is that it is too large - there needs to be a way to only load the maps you need at any particular time - and the maps need to be separate from the application, so that updates and bug fixes can be supplied without having to download and install the maps again.

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ttrevor · Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

£50 , a rip off you must be joking, thats a good price in my opinion Rolling Eyes

soon as Uk maps arrive I shall be the first downloader to get a bargain!!
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