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CoPilot Live 8

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 US zip code or CA postal code, it's the smarter, more convenient way to navigate.
  • Address. Find an exact house number or street name.
  • Points of interest. CoPilot Live v8 contains thousands of Points Of Interest such as restaurants and gas stations. You can choose to navigate to a POI or make a phone call.
  • My Places. Enables you to quickly navigate to commonly visited locations, including Home, Work, Favorites and Recent places
  • Quick Stop. The easiest way to search for one of the most commonly used POI categories
  • 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
  • New User Interface. v8 is a pleasure to use, with new intuitive menus, flickable lists and fluid, finger-touch sliding maps.
  • Speed based map zooming. CoPilot automatically zooms-out from the map at higher speeds. Available in 3D mode only
  • Shortcut button makes it easy to access commonly used controls
  • Check for updates. Automatically or manually check for software updates from within CoPilot
  • Hide CoPilot*. Minimize CoPilot to make a phone call or access a different app at the touch of a button
  • 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 License 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
  • 2D and 3D map and POI displays with the route highlighted clearly and a turn arrow to highlight which way to go at junctions
  • Turn after Turn Indicator - Map view shows the next turn and the one after, making driving more predictable
  • 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
  • Guidance in Tunnels
  • 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 customizable 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

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:
  • Walking mode with 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, minivans and Recreational Vehicles. RV routing favors 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.
  • Border control. Displays useful local information when you enter a new country, including speed limits and currency information
  • Multiple stop trips and optimization. Enter-in multiple stops for a single journey. You can select the most efficient route to take using CoPilot's unique 'Optimize' 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
  • 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.
  • LiveLink™ Location sharing. a free to use service which lets you see the location of CoPilot friends real-time on your handset.
  • Live Weather. Displays up-to-date, five day forecasts at the touch of a button
  • Live Traffic - Premium service offers high quality, constantly updated traffic information about your route. Part of the Premium Live Services package for $19.99. Available for purchase here.
  • Live Fuel Prices CoPilot Live v8's premium fuel price service can instantly guide you to the closest or cheapest gas station. Part of the Premium Live Services package for $19.99. Available for purchase here.
  • Live Local Search. Use Internet search to find local products and services, for example, a favorite nearby coffee shop, a local business or a restaurant. Part of the Premium Live Services package for $19.99. Available for purchase here.
  • Share location details. Send your current location to friends and family via SMS, MMS or email

Personalized 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 favor specific types of road
  • Toll road avoidance feature
  • A choice of map colors. Pick from a range of preloaded map styles, including familiar industry-standard road color 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 customizable 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.

* Not available in CoPilot Live for iPhone