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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?

when sygic works(ed) on the n900 it worked well. nice easy interface etc. routing seemed fine to me, directions etc were ok. it even pauses and unpauses the music playback tidily

problem is that for me it often doesnt work, or hangs or randomly loses the gps signal. loss of the gps signal is not the os or the hardware cos i can fire up nokia maps and have an instant lock.

i have found sygic to be too unreliable for day to day use. thankfully i took advantage of an offer and got it cheap so it didn't cost me loads.

trying to get the voices working with nokia maps, but would really like traffic on there as well. wife's due a phone upgrade soon so ki may steal her N97 for the maps.

Yeah on the N900 Sygic crashes from time to time, and more annoyingly stops updating the position (need restart). Apart from that, I have found it to be on par with dedicated gps software/hardware.

If your copilot knows how to restart sygic on a N900, you absolutely fine.

I have tried Sygic on the Galaxy Tab, and the maps are evidently more recent than the last one I got with my registered N900 version.
I paid good money for that.
Sygic should update the N900 maps asap if they want to be fair. If they don't want to be fair, I won't either.

Which version did you have on the galaxy tab? I guess it runs on Androids.

If there is a way to use the android version file on Maemo, that would be cool.
I also paid for it last November and I am actually happy with it. How ever If I dont get what I pay for, I am getting angry.

Sygic gps navigation 11.0.1.
On the android device, the maps directory has .cam and. pak files like the maemo version, plus many other files. I will try to graft android's cam & pak files to maemo and I'll report the results.

EDIT: didn't work Android pak and cam files aren't read by maemo application.

ok, what choises do we have now? sygic aside

Best free open source app is Modrana imho. But needs to be online for showing maps and downloading routes.