my review and comparison of mobile geo and way finderaccess continued

From: "Roselle Ambubuyog" <roselle.ambubuyog@codefactory.es>
To: "'GPS: Mobile Geo Users List'" <mgeo_mailing@codefactory.cat>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [MGeo] my review and comparison of mobile geo and way
finderaccess

> Hello,
>
> Thank you very much for sharing your review. Just FYI:
> 1. There are settings in Mobile Geo that will configure the distance
> at which announcements about your approach or arrival at a location (e.g.,
> route waypoint like turns and intersections or your destination) are
> triggered, so you can set it such that you will get the announcements
> sooner. Go to Functions menu > Settings > Announcement Parameters.
> 2. There are settings as well that determine how soon Mobile Geo
> will calculate and inform you of heading changes (Functions menu >
> Settings
>> Advanced Settings).
> 3. There is an easy way of turning off LookAround announcements on
> the fly, apart from going into Settings > LookAround Options where you can
> check/uncheck the type of points announced automatically by Mobile Geo.
> This
> is the command to toggle LookAround mode on/off: Numeric hotkey Long#, MSS
> command Home+Long# in the Mobile Geo layout, or MSP command Ctrl+Tap3 in
> the
> Mobile Geo layout. If you don't remember the commands, go to Functions
> menu
>> Modes.
> 4. Mobile Geo has an extensive resource of POIs because not only do
> you have the ones that come with the map files, you can also download user
> POIs available from the Sendero website for free. Moreover, you can obtain
> user POIs recorded by other users of Sendero-based products. For this
> reason, the LookAround information Mobile Geo (like other Sendero GPS
> products) can provide will remain unparalleled. With the next version of
> Mobile Geo, there will be more options of obtaining recorded POIs from
> other
> sources.
> 5. As you can see with points 1 through 3 above, Mobile Geo has been
> designed to offer the user great flexibility, hence the more than 25
> settings and seven dialogs in Functions menu > Settings that you will find
> even with this first version, and to which we will soon ad more.
> 6. Further adding to the flexibility offered by Mobile Geo are the
> different ways by which you can set user locations (e.g., virtual
> position,
> destination, user POI). As you've mentioned, there is the setting of
> addresses by state, city, street and address number, as well as the
> ability
> to search for POIs either by letting Mobile Geo display the nearest POIs
> (basic search) or to look for POIs within a given area with a specified
> search radius, by POI category and name (advanced search), both of which
> have options for expanding the POI search. You can also set user locations
> by specifying the latitude and longitude coordinates, and to set your
> current GPS location as the destination and virtual position. A future
> version of Mobile Geo will also enhance user favorites to allow you to
> just
> select a previously set user location rather than re-entering or searching
> again.
> 7. Apart from the ability to calculate pedestrian and vehicle
> routes, Mobile Geo has a Getting Warmer function that will give you your
> heading and distance to your set destination as you move, even if you do
> not
> create a route. A future version of Mobile Geo will offer other route
> types
> that you can select.
> 8. Mobile Geo has been designed not merely to be a GPS solution to
> run on a phone. It takes into account the fact that it is running on the
> phone and mobile device and that this device has functions to offer which
> Mobile Geo can make use of to give the user more than what he would
> normally
> expect from a GPS product. For example, Mobile Geo on a Windows Mobile
> Smartphone like the HTC MTeoR has, in addition to verbal and sound
> notifications for events being announced, vibratory alerts patterned after
> the Morse code of the letter linked with an event (e.g., Morse code for
> the
> letter 'i' to indicate a waypoint intersection or 'd' for destination, and
> others for indicating turns or the loss of a GPS fix). You can configure
> which type of announcement you wish to get through Functions menu >
> Settings
>> Sounds and Vibrations.
> 9. Further to Point 8, Mobile Geo also lets the user select a POI,
> and if its details include a phone number, you can select the option to
> call
> that number if you wish.
> 10. IN connection with Point 6, about the ease of setting user
> locations, Mobile Geo also works with the Contacts application of your
> mobile phone so that you can go into your Contacts list, select a contact
> and if it has an entry in the "Home address", "Work address" or "Other
> address" field, you can select any of these three address entries to make
> Mobile Geo set them as your destination or virtual position.
> 11. Mobile Geo does not tie you to its screens just so you can use
> it. Mobile Geo can be minimized to the background by simply pressing the
> Hang-up key or selecting the option to minimize from the right softkey
> menu.
> Because the Mobile Geo commands are available globally through a command
> layout separate from your screen reader commands and to which you can
> easily
> switch, you can continue accessing Mobile Geo functions and querying it
> for
> information about your route or surroundings even while you are in another
> application (e.g., reading a book, checking your email, browsing the
> internet, listening to music, etc.). There is no need to worry about
> getting
> confused about the speech output you get because, as mentioned in Point 3,
> you can easily toggle the spoken announcements on/off.
> 12. Mobile Geo is powered by Code Factory's user-centered licensing
> system that allows you to transfer your product license from one phone to
> another, allowing you to upgrade or switch to another phone anytime, and
> you
> can do this on your own, without having to contact Code Factory and Mobile
> Geo. This, I believe, should also be considered when looking at the costs
> involved in getting a GPS solution.
>
> Many thanks.
> ________________________________________
> Roselle R. Ambubuyog
> Product Manager / Windows Mobile Division
> Code factory, S.L.
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