CoPilot comes to Windows Phone 8: free offline sat nav, £18 for premium features
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It can’t be easy, developing a Windows Phone sat nav app in the heavily publicized shadow of Nokia Here, but when we met the folks at CoPilot recently they were brimming with confidence. They’ve already counted 4.5 million downloads on Android and iOS, and today they’ve finally gone live for owners of WP8 devices too. The free app comes with CoPilot’s own, slightly different approach to laying out navigation info and options on a small screen, plus an offline map for the country of your choice, but you’ll have to scroll through directions manually. For the full works, which are only free for 14 days, you’ll need to spend £17.99 (the equivalent of $28) on an in-app upgrade that brings voice guided turn-by-turn instructions, a year’s worth of live traffic flow info, 3D maps and a few other features. You’ll find more screenshots and a growing number of reviews over at the source link.
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Mobile
Source: Windows Phone Store
CoPilot claims that approximately half of the 400 million iOS-powered mobile devices sold are of the Wi-Fi only variety of the iPod touch, iPad, and iPad mini, which also means the lack of a dedicated GPS receiver underneath the hood, and CoPilot intends to change that by transforming these Wi-Fi only devices into a full-powered voice guided, turn-by-turn navigation unit. This is made possible thanks to a partnership between CoPilot Live and Bad Elf, where merging together Bad Elf’s high performance GPS and CoPilot Live’s fully offline maps and routing, consumers can now use their iOS devices to the full potential – all without having to add on additional monthly data charges or require another mobile Internet connection.
