iGuidance v.3 - teaser picture(s) - Page 6

Fusion-One · 06-18-2006, 05:14 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Silentbob343

I do find it funny that we still use a keyboard layout invented for the typewriter in 1868 to prevent the typebars from binding. I think ABCD... is fine for a touchscreen

Some of us use dvorak, actually.

b8bboi · 06-18-2006, 05:51 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by 0l33l

I doubt that igMon will work with iG v3.

yeah, I'm pretty sure that it won't work out-of-the-box. they've probably changed a few windows around.

0l33l · 06-18-2006, 06:42 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by b8bboi

yeah, I'm pretty sure that it won't work out-of-the-box. they've probably changed a few windows around.

Yes, lots of the windows have been changed. But it is now very hard to browse using the keyboard, alsmost impossible unless you're playing around with the mouse too

b8bboi · 06-18-2006, 07:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by 0l33l

Yes, lots of the windows have been changed. But it is now very hard to browse using the keyboard, alsmost impossible unless you're playing around with the mouse too

WTH? You mean they removed the arrow key shortcuts for browsing the menus? That's seriously retarded. Why would you remove features from your app?

Between this and the non-qwerty keyboard and who knows what else, i'm not upgrading anytime soon. Did they even do usuability studies?

0l33l · 06-18-2006, 07:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by b8bboi

WTH? You mean they removed the arrow key shortcuts for browsing the menus? That's seriously retarded. Why would you remove features from your app?

Between this and the non-qwerty keyboard and who knows what else, i'm not upgrading anytime soon. Did they even do usuability studies?

iG v3 is very usable using the mouse. Unfortunately not so with the keyboard

Marvin Hlavac · 06-18-2006, 07:46 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by 0l33l

iG v3 is very usable using the mouse. Unfortunately not so with the keyboard

...and in my own setup I've always used my trusty old keyboard. Now, for the past few days I've been agonizing over what I'm going to do next. I may need to radically change how I use my setup.

Silentbob343 · 06-18-2006, 08:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Fusion-One

Some of us use dvorak, actually.

I was refering to those *****ing about the lack of QWERTY, chances are is you are using DVORAK then you aren't *****ing about lack of QWERTY

JagPuter · 06-19-2006, 11:32 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by gizak

Looks pretty, bud damn, $79 for upgrade?? I paid 99 for the entire software, at the MAX it should be like $50 bucks... i think the norm companies charge was 50... Anyways, some nice changes, but from what I can see, it lacks a search function. That's all I want, a search. I'm on the road and I want Taco Bell, let me type in Taco Bell and have it route me to the closest one... easy. Don't make me have to drill down to destination/poi/food/mexican/scroll to T.

So what is being said is I can no long type in a name of a restaurant or store or an POI, and have to scroll.
I may just keep 2.1 installed. Who the hell thought of taking away that feature. Makes using POI's allmost to difficult to bother with. I guess I can allways tote along the yellow pages.

Marvin Hlavac · 06-19-2006, 11:52 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by JagPuter

So what is being said is I can no long type in a name of a restaurant or store or an POI, and have to scroll.
I may just keep 2.1 installed. Who the hell thought of taking away that feature. Makes using POI's allmost to difficult to bother with. I guess I can allways tote along the yellow pages.

I don't think there has been any change in that particular feature (if I understand what you are asking) so sticking with 2.1 will not help you there, I don't think.

justintime · 06-19-2006, 02:51 PM

Version 3 is definitely on the right track, but as far as I can tell it will not yet be the ideal CarPC gps solution, because:

1) The windowed mode has top/bottom grey bars meant for Windows mouse click etc... useless if using TouchScreen. And the fullscreen mode leaves you without a resizable window, hence it may not be embedded in some frontends when in fs mode. (i.e., CentraFuse)
2) Overall buttons and windows are way too big for a Xenarc/Lilli. Furthermore, once embedded into a Frontend, the available screen area will be even less.
3) They added a bottom bar with some extra info (ETA, Speed, etc.) Nice, but it takes away more precious vertical space. They should have placed that on the left or right instead!

justintime · 06-19-2006, 03:15 PM

From the iNavCorp website:

(http://www.inavcorp.com/products/iguidance21.html)

New Features v3:

New GUI (larger font & finger-accessible menu buttons)
New Navteq map (including Alaska)
New UMPC/Car PC version software
Multiple stopover
Itinerary planning (trip order manually arranged by user)
Detour by distance or avoid road
Bordered roads and railroad & major roads marking
On-screen trip info
Trip stats recording
Enhanced 3D display
Shortcut buttons to "home" (user defined) and "POI" subcategories (program default)
240x240 resolution support (as well as 320x240, 240x320)
Now compatible w/ HP HW6500, HW6900, & Treo 700w

Marvin Hlavac · 06-19-2006, 03:20 PM

Justintime have you tried the Laptop/PC version instead of the UMPC/CarPC version, too? Do you think that is more usable?

In my setup (15" LCD) in the UMPC/CarPC version everything is _HUGE_. The Laptop/PC version is quite okay, perhaps just the very bottom line could have been a touch bigger so ETA, REM, DIST, etc is easier to read.

ShawJohn · 06-19-2006, 03:46 PM

If both US & Euro version both use same format Navteq maps then why does there have to be two versions

Why not one version, and an option of the maps to buy with it ????

justintime · 06-19-2006, 03:47 PM

The Laptop version has overall slightly large buttons etc than 2.x, but still too small to make it touchscreen friendly. In particular, the OSK is still a bit too small.

I think the UMPC/CarPC version should have been maybe 40% larger than Laptop version, instead of what appears to be 80% larger...

ShawJohn · 06-19-2006, 03:51 PM

I can only find screenies of the PPC version