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ETEN Glofish M700 & Wayfinder / GPS Navigation
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Posted by: EnigmaticSoul

Hello, folks.

Recently upgraded to the ETEN M700, and was a little disappointed at the extremely basic GPS software. Looked around and came across Wayfinder. There seem to be a couple of others out there (nhGPS, PowerNavigation), but those only seem to exist for Symbian. I particularly like the concept of what Wayfinder offers, but can't get it to work on my M700. It seems to expect that you will be connecting to an external GPS unit via Bluetooth, and makes no allowances for integrated devices. Has anyone tried this yet? Any advice? Other software suggestions?

Thanks,
Shawn.

Posted by: EnigmaticSoul

For anyone that's interested, I came across the Odyssey Mobile Navigation Software by Infogation that seems to offer the same functionality as Wayfinder, and connected to my integrated GPS without any troubles whatsoever. Their subscription service is a lot more expensive than Wayfinder, but they don't require any cellular data connection. Wish their demo version was for a little longer than three days.

Cheers,
Shawn.

Posted by: rip

have a look at TomTom Mobile

also you may find more in the PPC forum

Posted by: EnigmaticSoul

Actually, I did come across TomTom and a whole wealth of others over at Pocket GPS World, including reviews and everything. I looked over a bunch of them, including prices, and I think that, like the author of the reviews, I've become a dedicated Mapololis fan. It's not "finger-friendly", meaning that you pretty much have to use your stylus or at least not be driving when you're using it, and it's actually pretty ugly to boot. All of that being said, it is FAST, and offers all sorts of great features that I haven't seen anywhere else. It's also considerably cheaper than most of the others out there.

The Odyssey software that I was looking at earlier wasn't bad - pretty graphics, very clear voice, but I found it very counter intuitive to use. Most of the buttons are unlabeled, and offer no in-program description without clicking on them, even though they were big and easy to access with only a finger. It was also painfully slow on my device, to the point where it would miss announcing turns until a minute or more after I had passed it.

Cheers,
Shawn.

Posted by: millenia

I am using iNav by iGuidance on my Torq N100 (Eten G500) with built-in GPS and it works flawlessly.

www.inavcorp.com