ALK GPS Reviews

"ALK announces CoPilot Live navigation now available for the Nokia N95...ALK Technologies has come up with an alternative to the N95's on-board GPS software, CoPilot Live navigation comes as a pre-loaded storage card for the handset...Supplied through T-Mobile, Carphone Warehouse and O2, the CoPilot Live storage cards are preloaded with detailed maps of the UK and Ireland from NAVTEQ...CoPilot Live utilises the N95's in-built GPS receiver to help coordinate directions whether by car or foot..." read more »

"7-digit postcodes plus predictive searching Clear, uncluttered maps Well-designed user interface...TMC via GPRS costs extra Cycling mode needs better-quality data...A market-leading position is all well and good, but it does pose problems when the next software upgrade comes around...CoPilot's developer ALK Technologies has tackled this question head-on with CoPilot Live 7, which addresses outstanding user interface issues and adds..." read more »

"We were especially disappointed by the POI selection screen, which doesn't list enough categories (there's no bank/ATM option, for example) and doesn't break up restaurants by cuisine...While CoPilot Live is the best notebook GPS option around, it doesn't even hold up against low-priced dashboard models...The product can receive live traffic info when paired with a wireless Internet data plan on your laptop..." read more »

"Make good use of the EEE PC Safe mounting for car..." read more »

"• Easy-to-use interface • Pinpoint accuracy • Very safety-conscious • Live messaging capability for larger fleet...• Took a while to acquire first signal...CoPilot Live Laptop 8 is the Media Center of GPS systems...CoPilot Live Laptop 8 is the Media Center of GPS systems, and that's a good thing...CoPilot would actually be a very good piece of Tablet or touchscreen PC software, as there is limited input and extremely large buttons for quick navigation......" read more »

"Two way communication and telemetry for tracking is great...Two way messaging for Internet connected units is very nice! So far, so good...Often tells you to turn right when it should be left, also tells you to bear left onto a particular road when you are already on it..." read more »

"gets you from a to b / works with microsoft mobile phones getting a gps fix sometimes take a few minutes..." read more »

"• Great interface • Safety View great for drivers • Male and female voice prompts...• Buggy installation • Route prediction can cause problems...One of the more innovative GPS products on the market, the ALK CoPilot Live Smartphone edition, uses a Bluetooth link to turn a Windows Mobile Smartphone into a rather sophisticated navigation system...We conducted our test on an Audiovox SMT5600...This worked, and when we tested the device, it provided accurate,..." read more »

"Conventional Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers have specialized processing chips containing multiple correlating processors for analyzing multiple GPS satellite signals and determining the devices position...ALK Technologies, a developer of GPS navigation, mileage, mapping and route guidance software, integrated Spot into their CoPilot Navigator 9 software...DELL are selling jl CoPilot Navigator 9 as a GPS capability accessory for their Inspiron notebook computers...Features a Philips designed USB 2.0 GPS antenna with faster time to first fix and higher overall satellite tracking performance..." read more »

"Two way communication and telemetry for tracking is great...Two way messaging for Internet connected units is very nice! So far, so good...Often tells you to turn right when it should be left, also tells you to bear left onto a particular road when you are already on it..." read more »