Time to change Satnav

Wow...thanks very much for that!

I have used Tomtom for years, when I became a delivery driver after retirement, I relied on the TT totally, never had a problem.  My present TT screen has become useless, press one character and the one next to it is displayed.  Another time, one press and 6 or 7 characters are displayed. 

Never heard of Gopilot....being on a PAYG phone, I might get a (tesco do a low budget one)small monthly account and use the phone.  Here in Norfolk the signal is crap which would be a problem.

I have a few weeks to decide.  I will look at all of the options you have kindly highlighted.

Thanks again!

Another +1 for Copilot - if you buy it off the company's website, they often have better deals than the play store price (I got Western Europe for £20 when they had an offer on last year).  If you sign up to their mailing list, I suspect they will email you within a day or two with an offer if there's not one on when you first look.

The maps are stored 'offline' so you don't need a phone/internet connection for navigation to work while you're out and about, but the initial map download is large (3GB ish, so do that on WiFi at home).  The traffic service (which you get free for the first year) does rely on an internet connection, but the data use for that would be very low I imagine and you can chose to turn it off.

I only have the 'normal' version rather than the caravan specific one, but even the normal version has a 'motorhome' routing mode, which seems to work pretty well keeping you off minor roads and all the road preferences and average speeds by road type are tweak-able within the app.  I particularly like the ability it has to 'drag' the calculated route to where you prefer to go in the preview screen which is handy if you have a CL's directions or a particular route you prefer.

Satnavs are completely a matter of personal preference, of course, but CoPilot is the easiest and best I've used by some margin.

Had a chance to look at options and have decided to stay away from Tomtom type satnavs and think we will go for Copilot.

I think Copilot displays current speed, like Tomtom, something I use all the time.

Looking at the views on here, Copilot seems to do all we want.  Downloading the maps at home on Wifi seems sensible.  I have a new phone coming this week and Plusnet are offering 5G for £7 per month.  So I think this should cover me for navigation when away from home.

I'm 72 and technology leaves me far behind....wish my son lived closer.

Many thanks for your help.

Still not made the leap into having Copilot on a phone.  I have decided to get a new phone. Samsung J4 plus ...with a monthly Sim deal from my Broadband provider...Plusnet.

I have one question (If it has already been answered and I just can't find it, I apologise), does Copilot display your current speed on the road?

I have asked Copilot, but they just can't grasp what I want and keep referring me instructions that do not help.

I have 3 weeks before I need Copilot.....

Any use?

https://support.copilotgps.com/en/support/discussions/topics/19000021015

MM

Thanks for that, but I have been here before and can't find anything about current speed.  It may be I'm just not looking in the right place, it wouldn't be the first time.

I'm pretty sure I posted a question on this forum, but have no idea how to find it.  I have been through many pages, but no find.

It is a simple request to Copilot, can't understand why the person directing me to the same list of options, can't just say 'Yes or No'!

Sorry to be a bore.....about now I have to get a workable satnav.

I was about to get Copilot and read some reviews on the Copilot app site and to a man they were  very p..... off.

They all said that in years passed Copilot was brilliant, but now any upgrades had removed some of the features and made a very poor system.

Have any of you Copilot users found this?

I promise this will be the last time I mention it.  I am about to search the web for some info.

Tom Tom do have a caravan friendly model. I have one. If you do a google search for caravan sat nav you will find it. That's how I found mine.

GL, below is a screen shot from Copilot, the excessive speed alert suggests the App monitors your speed, that further suggests the option to display your speed & it should be in ‘settings’ good luck👍🏻

i wouldn't believe all you read. Not sure you can display speed but you do get speed limit warnings according to the type of vehicle you are driving. I have been using Co-Pilot some years now having previously tried others including TT and remain very satisfied with both the truck and the caravan versions which I run on rather old tablets. If you can let me know what versions they are criticising then perhaps I can do a comparison and give you more feedback but you may have by now taken the plunge for one?

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