|   CoPilot Live v8 sets a new standard in mobile navigation. It's the most powerful CoPilot yet, bringing the latest navigation and mapping technology to your smartphone to make every journey easier - and every journey better. With maps stored on the phone and no monthly fees, it's your own knowledgeable and constantly informed companion by your side that's always ready to guide you to your destination. Equally as effective in-car or on-foot, it's as useful for driving to unfamiliar places as negotiating the daily commute or walking in town. Clearer guidance at junctions  Now its easier than ever to see where to go at complex intersections. v8's new Lane Indicator Display arrows show you exactly which lane you need to be in, while CoPilot ClearTurn™ provides a more realistic display of motorway exits and junctions. Elsewhere, Real Signpost Information means that what you see on the screen matches what you see on the road. |  | Guidance in Tunnels CoPilot Live v8 continues to provide directions and update your estimated time of arrival, even when you lose a GPS signal in a tunnel. Great for when you need to take an exit in an underpass or immediately after leaving a tunnel.
|  | Turn after Turn Indicator  CoPilot navigation has always provided clear directions on the approach to a turn. Now in v8 CoPilot shows the next turn and the one after that too - making driving a little more predictable. |  | Speed Limit Alerts Sometimes it's not always obvious what the speed limit is on a road, particularly when travelling abroad. Now CoPilot can help, with on-screen and audible warnings if you exceed the local limit. |  | 3D Landmarks Find the way more easily in selected major cities with photo-realistic 3D images of the main landmarks. Its an ideal way to get your bearings whether travelling in-car or on foot. Optional feature, available to purchase from CoPilot Central. Available soon in Western Europe only |  | Brand Name POIs  CoPilot Live not only guides you to your destination, but also knows all the useful places you might need along the way. New in v8 is the ability find and navigate to the nearest familiar brand. Logos for over 80 leading-brands including hotels chains, petrol stations and fast food restaurants are displayed on the navigation map and in POI search results. View all POI categories |  | All new touch screen UI Who says that dedicated navigation devices are the simplest! CoPilot Live v8's new menus and user interface have been designed to take advantage of the latest smartphone touchscreen technology. With 100% finger touch operation, flickable menus and fluid sliding maps there's certainly no need for a stylus. v8's redesigned menu structure make it easy to access the most common tasks, while a new on-screen quick launch button allows instant access to the main controls, such as portrait/landscape screen switching, mode of travel and driving view. |  | Text to Speech CoPilot Live v8 includes improved pre-recorded voices at standard, providing clear and accurate spoken directions at each turn. Text to Speech voice instructions are optionally available in certain regions, which provide detailed spoken directions, including town and street names. Premium speech option, available soon . Not available in all regions. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central |  | Voice Recognition v8 can also provide you with hands free operation though optional CoPilot Command™ voice recognition. You can enter a destination, change the view and operate many other controls hands-free. It's time to talk back to your navigation system! Premium speech option, available soon . Not available in all regions. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central |  | Full-featured walking mode A phone with CoPilot Live v8 is much more than just an in-car navigation system. It can provide turn-by-turn directions to find the way around a town or city on foot too, with pedestrian-specific routing, map display and directions along footpaths. An on-screen compass and a useful straight line indicator make sure that you'll always be heading in the right direction. |  | Photo Navigation Navigate directly to a photograph! You can browse your phone's memory for a geo-tagged photo and navigate to that location, all from within CoPilot. |  | Live Traffic information CoPilot Live v8's optional Live traffic service offers high quality, constantly updated traffic information about your route via your phone's mobile Internet connection. Available across Europe and the USA, it scans your route for problems and can automatically calculate an alternative route if any are detected. Premium Live service, available soon . Not available in all regions. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central |  | Live Search CoPilot Live can use Internet search to find your favourite nearby brand, a local business, a nearby bistro or ... anything! Whatever you are looking for, just type it in and the integral connection to local Internet search will list matching results close by. Select the one you want, and CoPilot will guide you straight there. Available in UK, USA, France, Spain, Italy only |  | Fuel Prices Running low on fuel? CoPilot Live will even guide you to the closest fuel station - or the cheapest - in the area. See how it works Premium Live service, available soon . Not available in all regions. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central
|  | Weather CoPilot Live will tell you the weather conditions on your route, at your destination or in your current location. You can also display up-to-date five day forecasts at the touch of a button. A data connection is required on your device for this feature |  | LiveLink™ Location sharing  CoPilot Live can use the mobile internet to help you to connect to your colleagues, clients, friends and family when you're on the move. You can even help your friends find you! New in v8 is CoPilot LiveLink™ a free service which lets you see the location of friends who also use CoPilot in real-time from your own CoPilot screen. You can also send an email invite to anyone allowing them to share your location live on an internet map, send you messages and even new stops, straight to your CoPilot. Visit LiveLink |  | CoPilot OnDemand™ CoPilot Live v8 is designed to make it easier to get the maps you need for navigation when on the move. CoPilot OnDemand helps you avoid becoming stranded without navigation by allowing you to buy maps online and download them directly to your phone via the mobile internet, WiFi or CoPilot Central desktop software. As with all of CoPilot's maps, once they are on your phone you can use them for ever - there's certainly no need to download maps every time you want to go somewhere. |  | The Latest Maps CoPilot Live v8 includes the most accurate maps and Points of Interest available from the World's leading map suppliers. There's updated coverage of Western Europe, USA, Eastern Europe, Australia and South Africa.
| | CoPilot Central 2.0 The free-to-download PC software companion for CoPilot Live v8 which is designed to help you manage and maintain your CoPilot Live navigation software. Central 2.0 is the easiest way to check for software updates, buy additional maps and premium content like traffic, text to speech or 3D landmarks. You can also use CoPilot Central 2.0 to import custom Points of Interest databases and import/export trips in industry standard KML file format for use with other applications such as Google Earth. Download |  | Taking you to the door CoPilot Live v8 makes it easy to go places. With step by step address entry and street maps accurate down to house number or full UK postcode, its the smarter, more convenient way to have your navigation - Address. Find an exact house number, street or full UK post code
- Improved: Points of interest. CoPilot Live v8 contains thousands of Points Of Interest such as restaurants and petrol stations. You can choose to navigate to a POI or make a phone call. Includes logos for familiar brands of hotels, restaurants and petrol stations in certain regions.
- New: My Places. Enables you to quickly navigate to commonly visited locations, including Home, Work, Favourites and Recent places
- New: Quick Stop. The easiest way to search for one of the most commonly used POI categories
- New: PhotoNav. Navigate directly to a geo-tagged photograph!
- Contact. Navigate to a contact in your address book just by selecting a name. (not currently available in CoPilot Live v8 for Android)
- Intersection. Find the way to a crossroads
- Coordinates. Enter latitude-longitude coordinates or an Ordinance Survey Grid Reference for the ultimate in precision destination entry
- Improved: Route preview View your entire route as a Turn List, as Turn Maps or even a simulation of the entire trip.
Easy to use navigation CoPilot Live is specifically designed to compliment the latest GPS-ready touchscreen smartphones. It makes navigation miles easier and miles more portable than a standalone system - Improved: New User Interface. v8 is a pleasure to use, with new intuitive menus, flickable lists and fluid, finger-touch sliding maps.
- New: Speed based map zooming. CoPilot automatically zooms-out from the map at higher speeds
- New: Shortcut button makes it easy to access commonly used controls
- New: Check for updates. Automatically or manually check for software updates from within CoPilot
- Improved: Hide CoPilot. Minimise CoPilot to make a phone call or access a different app at the touch of a button
- Improved: Change mode. You can switch from in-car to walking guidance at the touch of a button
- Automatic GPS setup automatically detects your device's built-in GPS receiver or configures an external receiver
Portrait and Landscape display with automatic and manual switching - Easy Licence transfer. Got a new phone? Activate and De-activate button makes it easy to transfer CoPilot to a new device
Enhanced Navigation Display Once you have hit the road, CoPilot Live will guide you to your destination with clear on-screen guidance and turn-by-turn voice directions all the way - Improved: 2D and 3D map and POI displays with the route highlighted clearly and a turn arrow to highlight which way to go at junctions
- New: Turn after Turn Indicator - Map view shows the next turn and the one after, making driving more predictable
- New: Map display widget. CoPilot's advanced graphics technology allows you to expand or reduce the size of the map display at the touch of an on-screen button
- New: Lane Indicator Display* clearly shows which lane you need to take at junctions
- New: Real Signpost Information* CoPilot's on-screen information matches real-life signs
- New: CoPilot ClearTurn™* Provides a realistic display of motorway exits and major junctions (landscape mode only)
- New: Guidance in Tunnels
- New: Speed Limit Alerts*
- New: 3D Landmarks (premium option available through CoPilot Central, Available to purchase from CoPilot Central) The ideal way to get your bearings in selected cities with photorealistic 3D images of major landmarks.
- Destination view - a 2D map showing the entire route from your current location to your destination
- Itinerary view - view complete turn by turn directions for your journey
- Driver Safety view - a customisable guidance mode that displays at-a-glance text instructions and a large arrow of your next turn. An autozoom map is displayed on the approach to a turn
- Day and Night Mode - manually or automatically switch between day and low-glare night map view *Available in Western Europe only
Every journey easier (not just driving) Because it runs on a mobile phone, CoPilot Live v8 is ready to guide you wherever you are, and however you are travelling. Its so much more than an in-car system: - Improved: Walking mode with footpath information in towns and cities, a custom map display and useful on-screen compass. A straight line indicator keeps you heading in the right direction towards your destination
- Cycling. Satellite navigation on your bicycle, with voice directions and cycling-specific routes
- RV mode. CoPilot Live v8 can calculate routes better suited to larger vehicles, caravans and Recreational Vehicles. RV routing favours main roads and avoids U-turns where possible.
Advanced navigation features CoPilot Live v8 is packed full of advanced features designed to make every journey better. - New: Text to Speech (Premium Speech option available through CoPilot Central, Available to purchase from CoPilot Central). CoPilot can provide detailed spoken turn instructions using the latest Text to Speech technology to pronounce full street names
- New: CoPilot Command (Premium Speech option available through CoPilot Central, Available to purchase from CoPilot Central). Operate many of CoPilot's menus hands-free with CoPilot Command voice recognition
- New: Border control. Displays useful local information when you enter a new country, including speed limits and currency information
- Improved: Safety camera alerts with FREE updates. CoPilot Live v8 has a pre-installed database of over 10,000 camera locations across Europe. As you approach a camera, CoPilot Live provides on screen and spoken warnings, The camera database is regularly updated and can be downloaded for free through CoPilot Central 2.0 desktop software.
Note: safety camera locations are not available in Switzerland, and customers are advised to deactivate camera warnings completely when traveling in Switzerland to comply with local legislation. - Multiple stop trips and optimisation. Enter-in multiple stops for a single journey. You can select the most efficient route to take using CoPilot's unique 'Optimise' feature
- Pre-trip planning. Work out an itinerary before you leave.
- Instant detour. Search for an alternative route around unexpected hold ups at the touch of a button
- Save current location. Find the way back to a specific location with ease.
- Save trips. You can import trips from CoPilot Central desktop software
- Congestion charge warnings, warns you in advance if your journey takes you through the London Congestion Charge Zone. It can also recommend an alternative route
- POI alerts. CoPilot can notify you when you approach a specific category of POI, for example a car park
Live Services - CoPilot Live v8 is the original 'connected' GPS navigation system, providing access to a range of live services via the mobile internet designed to make every journey better. Note: CoPilot's Live services require a mobile Internet connection, which may incur charges from your mobile provider
- New: LiveLink™ Location sharing. a free to use service which lets you see the location of CoPilot friends real-time on your handset.
- New: Live Weather. Displays up-to-date, five day forecasts at the touch of a button
- Improved: Live Traffic - optional service offers high quality, constantly updated traffic information about your route. Available across Europe and the USA. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central
- New: Live Fuel Prices CoPilot Live v8's optional fuel price service can instantly guide you to the closest or cheapest fuel station. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central
- New: Live Local Search. Use Internet search to find local products and services, for example, a favourite nearby coffee shop, a local business or a restaurant.
- New: Share location details. Send your current location to friends and family via SMS, MMS or email.
- New: Road Side Assistance. Summon help from a recognised provider of breakdown services from within CoPilot Live. Breakdown membership is required to utilise this facility.
- New: CoPilot OnDemand™. Don't get stranded without navigation. Buy additional maps online and download them directly to your phone via the mobile internet, WiFi or CoPilot Central desktop software. As with all of CoPilot's maps, once they are on your phone you can use them permanently. Available to purchase from CoPilot Central
Personalised Navigation CoPilot Live v8 is full of adjustable settings and features to best suit the way you travel. - A range of standard routing options including: quickest, shortest, economic and avoid motorways
- Create your own custom route profiles to avoid or favour specific types of road
- Toll road avoidance feature
- A choice of map colours. Pick from a range of preloaded map styles, including familiar industry-standard road colour schemes
- A choice of pre-recorded voices. A range of guidance voices are included as standard. Additional voices can be downloaded via the CoPilot Central Desktop companion or from third party providers.
- New: Fully customisable information display. Choose from: Destination, Current Road, Next Crossroad, Nearest Town, Estimated Travel Time, Speed and Distance, Altitude and Heading, Latitude and Longitude. Selected information can be shown in a single display or dual display at the bottom of the screen. Alternatively, trip information can be shown as a continuous loop on a single display
- Adjustable guidance. You can choose when and how far from a turn you receive spoken instructions
- Display road restrictions and 1-way streets
- Change the back light settings. You can choose to have your device's backlight on all the time, with GPS reception or conserve battery power and have it show only close to a turn.
- Heading-up or North-up map display
- Adjustable POI display. Choose when to display Points of Interest: always, never or when stationary
The CoPilot Live v8 Advantage As hundreds of thousands of CoPilot customers have already discovered, CoPilot Live navigation on a smartphone simply makes better sense - Maps and software onboard. Unlike many mobile navigation systems, CoPilot's maps are stored on the phone, so there's no need to rely on the mobile internet to download maps everytime you go somewhere. There are no on-going bills or hidden costs. Simply unlimited and dependable navigation
- Full featured navigation on your choice of mobile device. CoPilot Live v8 provides all the benefits, features and quality mapping of a dedicated navigation system but conveniently on your choice of smartphone.
- Smartphone-specific navigation. CoPilot Live offers useful features on smartphone that simply are not possible with dedicated systems. Example include: contacts integration, the ability to dial a point of interest and Live information services via the phone's mobile Internet connection
- Easy and Intuitive navigation CoPilot Live takes advantage of the latest graphics technology and hi resolution smartphone touchscreens to provide a navigation experience that rivals the most expensive standalone systems
- Calculates complicated routes in seconds. Using onboard mapping CoPilot Live v8 calculates journey routes in seconds on the mobile - rather than the minutes required by some smartphone navigators which are reliant on a mobile network.
- The latest digital street maps. Up to date maps from the World's leading providers, containing millions of verified street addresses and points of interest.
- Designed with your safety in mind. CoPilot Live v8 is designed to guide you clearly and without unnecessary distraction.
- Multiple stop itinerary and trip optimizer. Enter up to 50 stops or waypoints in an itinerary and choose optimize to calculate the most efficient routing.
* indicates features available in UK and certain Western Europe countries on
y. Sophisticated features are all very well, but ultimately a sat nav system is only as good as its maps. That's why we include the most accurate and up to date satellite street maps available. Sourced from the world's leading map providers, v8's mapping and Points of Interest are fully updated and cover more of the earth's surface than ever before. You can purchase additional maps licenses via CoPilot Central 2.0 desktop software or the CoPilot online store. CoPilot's maps are usually stored on a memory card in your phone, so you can hit the road with confidence, without having to rely on map downloads via the mobile internet each trip.  Western Europe (complete street level coverage) Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom Eastern Europe Albania (MRC), Belarus (MRC), Bulgaria (MRC), Croatia (CC), Czech Republic (CC), Estonia (CC), Hungary (CC), Latvia (CC), Lithuania (CC), Moldova (MRC), Montenegro (MRC), Poland (CC), Romania (Major cities + MRC), Russia (Detailed coverage of Moscow and St Petersburg region), Serbia (MRC), Slovakia (CC), Slovenia (CC), Ukraine (MRC) (MRC = coverage of major roads and cities, CC = detailed street level coverage) ◆◆◆◆◆ Stuff Magazine, April 2009 “STUFF HOT BUY: CoPilot’s finger-friendly icons are well suited to touchscreen smartphones. The menu system is intuitive and the map is clearly readable at the wheel. We can’t fault its on-road performance either. But it’s the live functionality that’s the clincher. Still the most comprehensive and user-friendly mobile solution on the road.” ◆◆◆◆◆ Auto Express, June 2009 “BEST BUY: A long time favourite, CoPilot has smart, clear mapping and was easy to use.” ◆◆◆◆◆ PC Advisor, June 2009 “PC ADVISOR RECOMMENDED: The software to choose if you’ve already got an advanced phone and want to add sat nav capabilities to it.” ◆◆◆◆◆ PDA Essentials, “BEST SAT NAV SOFTWARE: an unrivalled level of performance and features, the closest to a dedicated personal navigation device.” “An impressive update. The new features may be modest but the value is outstanding, 9 out of 10!” Editor’s Choice - Smartphone Essentials, September 2009 CoPilot Live v8 is currently compatible with Smartphones and PDAs running Windows Mobile 5, 6, 6.1 or Android operating system Full Compatibility List Here - CoPilot 8 On DVD (map of Europe)
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