I have the Nokia N80, and am reliably informed that I can add the Route 66 Mobile 7 software to it (along with a GPS bluetooth receiver) for cheap(ish) sat nav. According to http://www.66.com their software DOES work with the Symbian 60 OS of the N80.

 

Has anyone here used the Route 66 software on a mobile? If so what did you think? Any good? Pants? Waste of space? Dogs danglies?

Opinions please :D

 

TIA :bow:

Hmmmm, OK then!

 

I take it no-one has it then ;)

 

Well I've gone for it anyway, so I'll post a report anyway, once it turns up and I've given it a test run or two. Should be a good run down to Trax next weekend. :)

Well it's finally turned up (don't even ask :headvswal )

 

Set it all up and taken it round town a few times, and it's performed very well so far.

Voice instructions, over my Bluetooth car kit as well (both Bluetooth car kit and Bluetooth GPS receiver work together at the same time) 3D & 2D visual display and night colours (full details from http://www.66.com)

 

3D view, day colours.

(You can set the language to your appropriate one)

 

On the whole, so far, I'd recommend it for anyone with the Symbian 60 operating system (contrary to various forums around, it DOES work perfectly well with the N80) There are 32 various models of phone, from various manufactures that will work with this software. There are other versions of this software for other applications as well (No, I'm not on commission ;) )

How does it compare to TomTom?

How does it compare to TomTom?

I don't know anyone called Tom :confused: And as for his map reading abilities, I wouldn't know!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :confused:

 

Sorry Graham, I've no idea, don't know what the Tom Tom can do. I deliberately took a couple of wrong turns, and it instantly recognised this and gave me an alternative route straight away. At the end of the day, you only have a screen that is 1 1/2 x 1 3/4". I do have a windscreen mount for my phone that is positioned so that it is hanging just below the rear view mirror, so it's in my eye line without having to look down or anything.

 

HTH

Missed the original post, sorry to say that I've tried both and TomTom blows 66 away imo (on a 7610), TomTom6 is availible through non-retail channels now so n80 compatible, not seen it in the shops yet though :rofl:

Took mine to work with me last night, and for what I want out of it it was the dogs!! And we were fooking around with it as well finding places on the railway that you wouldn't expect to find. Like I say, I've never used the Tom Tom, but have heard reports that it does send you to the wrong places sometimes :confused:

 

Well the more user interfaces the better, gives people the choice, but for it to be usable on the N80(and others), it has to be on the Symbian 60 operating system, and according to Nokia, it isn't! (so far at least)