This past weekend I ventured to Boston, MA for a little retreat in the beautiful city. Not being very familiar with the city I made sure my CoPilot Live was packed—which is easy to do as it’s conveniently located on my iPhone and fits in my pocket! I thought I’d share a little of my experience with CoPilot Live guiding my way. Perhaps you’ll find it useful for your next excursion.
You can pretty much stick to walking when enjoying the sites in Boston, so CoPilot Live’s walking mode with turn-by-turn directions and pedestrian-specific routing was extremely useful. Wherever you stay in Boston, an array of pubs are in walking distance, so I made sure to use the Save Current Location feature at my hotel so I could always find my way back!
One of the must-sees in Boston is the Freedom Trail—a walking tour that leads you through 16 historical sites. If you’ve never been, I highly recommend it. A wonderful benefit of having CoPilot Live along was no matter where I was in the city; I could search and locate anything I needed. No need to stop and ask for directions. This proved useful for a caffeine pit stop mid- tour. I used Live Local Search to quickly locate a nearby “Dunkin Donuts” (my favorite) and CoPilot Live guided me straight there. I had remembered to Save Current Location before I veered off the trail so a quick tap on Favourites—where the GPS coordinates were stored—and I was back on the trail.
I’m a sporadic traveler so I didn’t plan a dinner spot ahead of time. I searched CoPilot Live’s immense Points of Interest (POI) database and found a suitable restaurant in the area. Being that I was in Boston, I was in the mood for some New England Clam Chowder so I selected “Seafood” and perused the list of choices. After settling on “Union Oyster House” I used CoPilot Live to preview the route, which quickly led me to believe that walking there was not an option! So I switched to auto mode, checked my trip time and called directly from within CoPilot Live to make a reservation.
After a short flight back to New Jersey I jumped in my car ready to get home, only to realize I had $1.50 left in my wallet. No problem. After setting my Destination to Home, I tapped Show Route and in Options selected “Always Avoid Tolls”. Within the hour I was home, with $1.50 still in my wallet and no time spent on the NJ Turnpike!
Copilot Live definitely made my journey smoother and most important when it comes to traveling—stress free. I couldn’t have asked for a better travel companion (besides my husband of course!)
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Shortcut Options
Itinerary View
A very useful feature that is often overlooked in CoPilot Live is the Shortcut button. With the Shortcut button you can easily and quickly switch between commonly used navigation options. Stopped at a light and want to see what you’re next upcoming turns are? Switch to Itinerary view. Decided to finish out the trip on foot? Switch to Walking Mode.
Continue reading ‘Tips and Tricks: Using the Shortcut Button’
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While traveling have you ever wanted to return to a specific location – only to realize you can’t quite remember the way?
It might be that perfect little restaurant tucked away on a back street or a secret hideaway cove away from the main beach. You might find it again…eventually. Or you’ll have to settle for something that just isn’t nearly as good.
Well with CoPilot Live, you have the perfect tool to find your way back to your newly discovered favorite spot. Our ‘Save Current Location’ feature saves the exact GPS coordinates to guide you straight back to the location. By using GPS coordinates rather than address details, it doesn’t matter how near or remote it happens to be.
To use the feature: Go to MENU > Save Current Location, enter the name of the location and hit OK
Note: In the MENU, use the blue arrows in the bottom right corner to navigate to the 2nd screen of MENU options
A record of the location will then be saved to your ‘Favourites’ menu. Now you’ll have guidance back to your favorite spot whenever you want—whether it is the next day, the next month or even the next year!
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Our own David Quin was recently featured in Peter Suciu’s Mobile Business Technology column on Allbusiness.com. David gives his thoughts on smartphone GPS navigation, including how it stacks up to dedicated GPS devices, social media’s foray into GPS apps and more. It’s an informative read of where GPS navigation on smartphones—including CoPilot Live— is headed!
Read the full interview here: http://www.allbusiness.com/media-telecommunications/13955015-1.html
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If this is your first time visiting us then welcome to the CoPilot Live North America Blog! If you’re a regular here on the blog, glad to see you again and thanks for your participation over the last few months. We’d like to take this opportunity to just remind everyone what this blog is all about. This is also a great time for you to tell us what you like and don’t like about the blog. This blog is not only for us to talk to you but for you to talk to us. We want to make this the best experience possible for you. Basically we want this blog to be a frequent destination for you and we want you to leave happy!
So to start, our goal for this blog is to provide you with unique and informative content on what is happening in the world of CoPilot Live. This includes a range of information from new product releases & features to tips and tricks to make your CoPilot Live experience better to general “fun” posts because honestly we like to have fun! Have an idea for a topic, then tell us and we’ll be happy to post about it.
As we mentioned, we’re trying our best to make this a great experience for you. So here are a few things we pledge to do:
- We will post all comments from readers, except for spam and remarks that are inappropriate, irrelevant or offensive
- We will reply to all comments as promptly as we can, when it is appropriate
- We will be respectful to all of our readers
Now in return, all we ask from you is to simply join the conversation and talk with us or other CoPilot Live users. Share what’s on your mind regarding CoPilot Live or things going on in the mobile navigation industry, ask us product-related questions and tell us your views and opinions on things. But please don’t post personal or private information as in case you didn’t notice…this is a public forum! And be respectful to us as we are to you.
One final but very important thing to mention: If you have a support related question, please contact our Support team. We are happy to answer inquiries related to the posts on the blog but general support inquiries should be directed here: CoPilot Live Support or to our CoPilot Live Twitter page. You can also find very in-depth FAQ’s and Manuals here.
So thanks for visiting us and if you haven’t already, subscribe to our blog today as we have a lot great stuff in store for you. And don’t forget to comment and tell us what else you want to see here or take the poll in the sidebar!
Thanks,
The CoPilot Live Team
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This week’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona has seen a number of eye-catching announcements. Here’s a quick round-up of some of the things that we found particularly interesting.
Windows Phone – 7 Series Microsoft finally broke cover with the public announcement of their forthcoming mobile OS – Windows Phone 7 Series. More of a preview than a full launch, it seems that Microsoft are at last likely to make-up some ground lost to the iPhone in the consumer mobile space, particularly in terms of usability, entertainment and aesthetics. We’ve always been fans of Windows Mobile – after all CoPilot Live was first launched on the platform – and it’s great to see it turning heads with some long-overdue innovation. Continue reading ‘Mobile World Congress 2010 – a few highlights’
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So the traditional weekend of romance is over for another year and with that CoPilot Love returns to Live. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our CoPilot Love theme over the past few days. We really could feel the love in the majority of posts – and where we couldn’t, you can be sure that the points made have been taken into consideration.
Congrats to our winners Markus & Randall! We hope you enjoy your CoPilot Live prizes.
We’ll be running more competitions and special offers over the coming months. Subscribe to our blog or hook-up via our Twitter feed so you’re always the first to know!
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Sure we’ve all heard it before but you know you have at least one story that goes something like this: You’re late for that really important event and you’re now passing that gas station for the third time— the one your male riding companion swears is not the one you saw 20 minutes ago.
Well now there is a simple way to ensure a smoother, better journey with the man in your life. Introduce him to CoPilot Live. If he doesn’t want to ask for help from the gas station attendant, the car next to you at the light or the woman walking her dog that you’ve passed 4 times, then CoPilot Live is for him. It even comes with different voices for him to choose from. Here’s a tip, introduce him to Frank, he speaks full street names!
So a special message to the all the women out there. This year instead of yet another heart-shaped box of chocolates or red tie covered with pink hearts, help that man in your life and ultimately avoid any arguments on future journeys by purchasing him CoPilot Live this Valentine’s Day.
Take it from us. He’s probably going to like it more than the adorable 50 page scrapbook you made for him of detailing every date you ever went on.
And don’t forget, tell us what you love about CoPilot Live for a chance to win today’s daily prize – Free Premium Live Traffic & Fuel Price Services for your CoPilot Live!
Send us a message here on our blog, or if it’s a brief encounter, send us a tweet on http://twitter.com/copilotlive_us
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Looking for a real life ‘CoPilot’ to help you navigate through life?
Maybe our Live Local Search can help you find true love by locating dating agencies, singles clubs and all sorts of places where potential partners may be. And once you’ve coupled up, our location-sharing service LiveLink™ will let you share your journeys and keep in constant touch – where ever you happen to be traveling.
We’ve made Local Live Search free for CoPilot Live v8 customers (free that is apart from the possible cost of a small amount of mobile data usage). It’s already available as standard in our latest Windows Mobile and Android software updates, and it’s coming to our iPhone app in the next app update.
Meanwhile if there’s something you love about CoPilot Live why not tell us about it? We’re offering Valentine’s Day prizes daily. Today we’re offering a $25 iTunes gift card!
Send us a message here on our blog, or if it’s a brief encounter, send us a tweet on http://twitter.com/copilotlive_us
Congratulations to our lucky winner from yesterday’s competition: Markus Gruber who wins a Godiva gift card!
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