nav4all, really that good?

[brada]

Hey, i am searching for a gps system for my pocket pc and i have been browsing through the internet and a popular program is nav4all. But i am quite sceptic and i wonder if this program is really that good. Does somebody has some experience with this program

[ipaqczar]

I haven't used Nav4all - I just checked the website - it seems to be geared more towards phones. Is that what you have?

My PocketPC doesn't have a phone, but I do have a GPS compact flash card - the software I use is TomTom Navigator. I really love it.

[Jason Dunn]

Someone from nav4all has been spamming our forums lately, so no, I don't think I'd recommend it. ;-)

[DerekAbney]

I haven't used Nav4all - I just checked the website - it seems to be geared more towards phones. Is that what you have?

My PocketPC doesn't have a phone, but I do have a GPS compact flash card - the software I use is TomTom Navigator. I really love it.

I know the maps TomTom uses are supposed to be really solid. Tele Atlas is one of the primary mapping providers out there, and from my experience, they do a good job.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

One of the forum members at firstloox had a look at the software - his mini review is worth a read:

Some may have read the SPAM here, so i looked for the ******* application. This is in fact one of the worst applications i have ever seen. The application really sucks big time. It is so wrong that it would be fashionable to have it in the 70's.

I once wrote an article about what good mobile applications are, and this application clearly demonstrates what disasters happen if you do not follow these guidelines. My summary:

* There is no 3D view or any advanced usable GUI
* It is based on Java, so it requires a huge footprint just to get it working on a PPC. Getting Java to work on a PPC is a nightmare anyway. Stay away from Java on PocketPC's. THis is a match made in Hell!
* It's slow, calculations are much slower than TomTom and other players in the market.
* It is completely dependent on a GPRS connection. GPRS, when used continously, really drains your battery within hours (especially when you also have to use BT to the GPS) and costs a fortune when used for more intensive aplications abroad. Besides that, a good application should not be dependent on GPRS since GPRS is not a really stable connection medium (coverage certainly is not 100%).

I think people should be warned for use of this kind of applications.

Jaap

[uhoo]

They've really shot themselves in the foot with their spam campaign. I've been searching for something exactly like this for my mobile since my crummy hx4700 has serious issues and I don't want to chance upgrading to WM5. But I can't find any useful information about Nav4all cause it's all SPAM SPAM SPAM.