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Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 14:09 hour
By:
Wishlist
I bet the word "free" won't appear on the UK version for long!
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 14:22 hour
By:
Andy_P
Why not?
It's just MapShare....
P.S. I wonder how you get the black background that's on some of those screens. I've not found any way to do that yet....
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 17:09 hour
By:
Wishlist
C'mon it's TT we are talking about.
The black, maybe that's for night view?
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 20:31 hour
By:
plimo
Never mind updating the navcore icons, when are they going to improve the awful navigation screen?
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 21:46 hour
By:
oldbwl
QUOTE (plimo @ Sep 5 2008, 19:31) 
Never mind updating the navcore icons, when are they going to improve the awful navigation screen?
Actually, I find the Nav screen the one thing I would keep the same. I find other units have either too much info or it is scattered over the map. Being able to dock just what I want on the right side of the wide screen leaves an almost perfectly clear screen. Now if I can only get rid of that annoying Quick Menu green arrow thingy I'd be even happier.
Posted on: September 5, 2008 - 23:04 hour
By:
Calomax
QUOTE (oldbwl @ Sep 5 2008, 20:46)
QUOTE (plimo @ Sep 5 2008, 19:31)
Never mind updating the navcore icons, when are they going to improve the awful navigation screen?
Actually, I find the Nav screen the one thing I would keep the same. I find other units have either too much info or it is scattered over the map. Being able to dock just what I want on the right side of the wide screen leaves an almost perfectly clear screen. Now if I can only get rid of that annoying Quick Menu green arrow thingy I'd be even happier.
Just go to Change Preferences/ page 4 Quick Menu Preferences, and untick everything in it. It will then disappear.
Posted on: September 6, 2008 - 16:47 hour
By:
Andy_P
QUOTE (plimo @ Sep 5 2008, 19:31)
Never mind updating the navcore icons, when are they going to improve the awful navigation screen?
If you don't give any more detail than that, it's no wonder!
What don't you like? I FAR prefer it to the Garmin alternative.
Have you ever contacted TomTom and made constructive suggestions?
Posted on: September 6, 2008 - 23:06 hour
By:
Wishlist
QUOTE (Andy_P @ Sep 6 2008, 15:47)
I FAR prefer it to the Garmin alternative.
I could not agree more. It’s the only bit TT have not messed up (apart from the distance warning on the cameras….. and the daft 2 mile warnings on the motorway exits all being naff now). Don’t let those numptys in the TT sales dept tell TT that they need to change that bit, it's the only thing that stops me chucking them all out of the window. It's way better than anything else out there.
Posted on: September 7, 2008 - 14:18 hour
By:
DarrenUK
Love the new graphics, they're like the b***ard offspring of Google Maps and Apple. For those of us who use those products, it provides a reasonably familiar interface. I've had my map colourscheme the same as google for years. If I need to travel long distances I always double check googlemaps first. When you're driving along it's better to see a map design similar to the one that you are already familiar with.
It could be possible that you can now customise the background colour. Anything but that orange colour I've seen in screenshots of v8.
(Just noticed the orange on this forum
). (Cough) Orange here: good. Orange on satnav: Baaad!
Posted on: September 7, 2008 - 23:50 hour
By:
geocab
I wonder if the delay of getting Navcore 8 on my Go 700 is because they had 8.2 in development. Or maybe they just don't plan on adding it at all as the new maps just released are 7.25.
Posted on: September 8, 2008 - 09:49 hour
By:
bartwijnen
QUOTE (Andy_P @ Sep 5 2008, 14:22)
P.S. I wonder how you get the black background that's on some of those screens. I've not found any way to do that yet....
That's the menu after the user switched to night colours
Posted on: September 8, 2008 - 15:33 hour
By:
Andy_P
Ah that would explain why I never saw it, I just use day colours on reduced brightness at night.
Posted on: September 10, 2008 - 20:09 hour
By:
plimo
would just like the option to turn the big ugly status bar off, or at least have a reduced size one if you dont want all the info, all i have selected is street name and next turn, dont use ETA, distance remaining, time, speed, etc. also a partially translucent status bar would look much better.
Posted on: September 11, 2008 - 01:59 hour
By:
Andy_P
QUOTE (plimo @ Sep 10 2008, 19:09)
also a partially translucent status bar would look much better.
What makes you think there's anything underneath it to show!
Seriously, that (or having a smaller status bar) would mean having to generate and display more actual map data. Maybe that would increase processor load too much? I don't know...
But I can see the appeal of a "Full screen" display option.
09-03
The introduction of the TomTom GO x40 last week at the IFA fair in Berlin offered us the opportunity to take a peek at the latest version of TomTom's navigational software - NavCore 8.2. We were in for a nice surprise because we soon found out that TomTom had changed the look of the software and given it a completely fresh appearance.
