ALK releases CoPilot app specific for RV's
ALK released their CoPilot app for RVers. It is $49.99. I bought it the day it was released and have been using it in my car to get used to it before does RV season. I've used the copilot brand of sma...
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One caveat about CoPilot I should mention, though not related specifically to the newly introd RV version. That being reliability?
At the recent FMCA convention in Perry, GA, I brought along only CoPilot on my Samsung Note smartphone, and not a dedicated GPS in my rental car. I had used CoPilot paid version 5 months earlier in Florida with no issues.
However, when I went to use CoPilot in GA, it prompted me to create an account which also enabled free traffic reports. When I did so, CoPilot then asked to me download maps, which I did months earlier and had worked fine previously? Nonetheless, it lost over 1G of maps stored on my device, or couldn't associate the file I already downloaded?
Luck would have it, I only had 2G/3G mobile signal on my Sprint phone, and no signal for my 4G T-mobile hotspot. So was not an option to download maps at my location.
Fortunately, or maybe not, my Cadillac SRX rental had GPS, though had a mind of its own? Taking me in the opposite direction.
Finally realized that the previous rental had input a military base location north of Atlanta. Whereas, the GPS requires to clear out existing routes before it would take you to your destination? What a pain in the donkey?
Bottom-line, you may want to consider if you can trust Co-Pilot as a primary GPS? Or, whether, it should be relegated as strictly a backup device?
At the recent FMCA convention in Perry, GA, I brought along only CoPilot on my Samsung Note smartphone, and not a dedicated GPS in my rental car. I had used CoPilot paid version 5 months earlier in Florida with no issues.
However, when I went to use CoPilot in GA, it prompted me to create an account which also enabled free traffic reports. When I did so, CoPilot then asked to me download maps, which I did months earlier and had worked fine previously? Nonetheless, it lost over 1G of maps stored on my device, or couldn't associate the file I already downloaded?
Luck would have it, I only had 2G/3G mobile signal on my Sprint phone, and no signal for my 4G T-mobile hotspot. So was not an option to download maps at my location.
Fortunately, or maybe not, my Cadillac SRX rental had GPS, though had a mind of its own? Taking me in the opposite direction.
Finally realized that the previous rental had input a military base location north of Atlanta. Whereas, the GPS requires to clear out existing routes before it would take you to your destination? What a pain in the donkey?
Bottom-line, you may want to consider if you can trust Co-Pilot as a primary GPS? Or, whether, it should be relegated as strictly a backup device?
