Thread: Sygic no longer available for maemo/N900 ?
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2011-05-30 , 10:36
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Originally Posted by bockersjv View Post
Just seen this. I bought Sygic whne it emerged. The latest version 10 was an embarrasing pile of pooh. A typical hour long journey involved the application crashing 2-3 times. Signal getting lost and never re-connecting unless app was re-started. Re-starting it required stopping that car as there are two or three screens to get through,

Then there is the routing. OMG, it took me down unmade roads and accross fords and was frankly useless if driving in rural locations. A recent journey involved it taking me round in a big circle of urban roads TWICE only to appear in at the same spot.

I now have it running sometimes just for fun to see how convoluted a route it would take me on for journeys I am familiar with. I even paid for the traffic add on, what a waste of money.

I've gone back to using my Tom Tom
I actually gave Sygic a chance on my Samsung Galaxy Tab. There were some things I really liked (nice big icons, big text, nice layout, very understandable voices, etc) and MANY things I really hated (routes were terrible, the traffic updates were often wrong, it almost never knew which way I was facing--clearly not using the hardware compass in my tablet, there was only ONE voice for US and it was incredibly annoying--in fact, just about every voice recording was obnoxious, it absolutely TOOK OVER the system and ruined multitasking, it also lacks an option to allow the Android OS's notification/status bar at the top to remain there in case I needed to access it--it was awful!, etc.).

I think overall I was left with the sense that this was a mapping application with a LOT of great potential, but none of it realized. Ultimately, I went back to Google Maps and found that it felt far more responsive, better written and most importantly, provided me with a far more direct route while accurately avoiding traffic hold-ups (a recent feature!).

I'm assuming it probably looks and operates the same way on the N900?
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