REVIEW: iGO North America 2006 - SD
By Thomas Chan - theunwired.net
I have the honor to review the iGo My Way Navigation Software 2006 All Region Beta version after publishing the TomTom Navigation 5 review couple weeks ago. The package arrived from GPS & More Ltd. in about a week. I have extensively used one in-car navigation system for 4 years, an older version of iGuidance on the second generation IPAQ for 2 years, and lately the TomTom Navigation 5 software on T-mobile MDA. This would be an interesting comparison, especially with the TomTom Navigation 5 software, since the other two are considered older generation hardware and software.
What's in the package:
iGo My Way Navigation Software 2006 in a 1 GB miniSD card
SD adapter
CD-ROM with user manual
Installation
One of the selling point of this software is its ease of installation. Plug & Go is the keyword here. There is no ActiveSync required, no need to download maps and no need for product registration. All you need to do is to plug in the miniSD or SD card with the provided adapter, install the software and you are ready to go. I believe this is to directly address the installation issues people have encountered when using TomTom and other navigation software. The even better news is that the installed program is about 9K, so it does not take up precious program store memory on my MDA. This is indeed an excellent install concept, except when I plugged in the iGo My Way miniSD card and installed for the first time, it got stuck at install status screen. Pressed the OK key and got no response. I ended up having to soft reset the device, uninstall and re-install the software again. This time, everything came up nicely. According to iGo, the PDA might have something conflicting in its memory, holding large part of it with some other program. The soft reset eventually cleared it up.
Because the iGo My Way program and map data took up almost the entire 1 GB miniSD card capacity (below), I could not put my usual 500-600MB MP3 files there and use both iGo My Way and TCPMP concurrently. This is one downside of having everything packed into one memory card and a typical case of trading install convenience with flexibility. One alternative is to backup and then eliminate unused maps on the card (for instance by using WM5torage http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2978 if you don't have a card reader handy), leaving enough room to store mp3 files. Since this software is restricted to the CID Register of the miniSD card, I cannot copy the entire content to a larger capacity card and use the extra memory for mp3 files. May be iGo My Way can, in the future, provide higher capacity memory card version for those who need the extra room for other programs/data.
I have the honor to review the iGo My Way Navigation Software 2006 All Region Beta version after publishing the TomTom Navigation 5 review couple weeks ago. The package arrived from GPS & More Ltd. in about a week. I have extensively used one in-car navigation system for 4 years, an older version of iGuidance on the second generation IPAQ for 2 years, and lately the TomTom Navigation 5 software on T-mobile MDA. This would be an interesting comparison, especially with the TomTom Navigation 5 software, since the other two are considered older generation hardware and software.
What's in the package:
iGo My Way Navigation Software 2006 in a 1 GB miniSD card
SD adapter
CD-ROM with user manual
Installation
One of the selling point of this software is its ease of installation. Plug & Go is the keyword here. There is no ActiveSync required, no need to download maps and no need for product registration. All you need to do is to plug in the miniSD or SD card with the provided adapter, install the software and you are ready to go. I believe this is to directly address the installation issues people have encountered when using TomTom and other navigation software. The even better news is that the installed program is about 9K, so it does not take up precious program store memory on my MDA. This is indeed an excellent install concept, except when I plugged in the iGo My Way miniSD card and installed for the first time, it got stuck at install status screen. Pressed the OK key and got no response. I ended up having to soft reset the device, uninstall and re-install the software again. This time, everything came up nicely. According to iGo, the PDA might have something conflicting in its memory, holding large part of it with some other program. The soft reset eventually cleared it up.
Because the iGo My Way program and map data took up almost the entire 1 GB miniSD card capacity (below), I could not put my usual 500-600MB MP3 files there and use both iGo My Way and TCPMP concurrently. This is one downside of having everything packed into one memory card and a typical case of trading install convenience with flexibility. One alternative is to backup and then eliminate unused maps on the card (for instance by using WM5torage http://www.theunwired.net/?itemid=2978 if you don't have a card reader handy), leaving enough room to store mp3 files. Since this software is restricted to the CID Register of the miniSD card, I cannot copy the entire content to a larger capacity card and use the extra memory for mp3 files. May be iGo My Way can, in the future, provide higher capacity memory card version for those who need the extra room for other programs/data.
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