Kris Kumar
09-09-2004, 08:30 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.alk.eu.com/alk/pr_smart.asp' target='_blank'>http://www.alk.eu.com/alk/pr_smart.asp</a><br /><br /></div><i>"ALK Technologies Ltd, leading developer of navigation systems, today announced the worldwide availability of CoPilot Live GPS Navigation for mobile phones. The new system transforms a compatible Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphone into a powerful, ultra-portable in-car Sat Nav system, integrating the same award-winning CoPilot technology as is currently available for Laptops and Windows Mobile-based Pocket PC PDAs. CoPilot Live takes full advantage of a Smartphone’s colour screen, powerful processor, and loud speaker to provide drivers with accurate and dependable door-to-door guidance turn-by-turn both on-screen and spoken. Intelligent route recalculation instantly works out the best new route if you miss a turn. Bad news for paper maps, great news for drivers, with CoPilot Live Smartphone driving anywhere is like driving around your home town. It’s impossible to get lost...CoPilot Live Smartphone is compatible with all Bluetooth-enabled Microsoft Windows Mobile-based Smartphones, including the new Orange SPV C500 and forthcoming Motorola MPX 220. Its available to purchase through authorised CoPilot Live dealers from £150 for software-only versions, and £299 for complete kits."</i><br /><br /> <img src="http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/images/CoPilot1.jpg" alt="User submitted image" title="User submitted image"/> <br /><br />The software developer ALK Technologies claims that <i>"CoPilot Live takes full advantage of the awesome communications, computation and memory capability offered by a Windows Mobile-based Smartphone platform".</i> Apart from the 2D and 3D navigation views, the feature that impresses me the most is its ability to fetch live traffic reports and send out the current coordinates using text messaging. Wish the ALK web site had provided more screen shots of this product. Another piece of information not mentioned in this press release is the availability of this product for the US customers.