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Warning: Mapopolis is cheating customers! (car navigation / mapping software with Bluetooth GPS support ) August 09, 2004 [General] | By Edward J. R. UPDATE: clarification from Mapopolis about this situation is available here. Incredible but true: imagine that a company is giving away for free atrial version (it expires after nine days) of something and then, when user decides to buy the thing after trying it out, user receives inferior product, that lacks some important features that were present in trial version. This is scandal! Mapopolis is cheating customers big time. What a pity that they are now the only provider of mapping programs with GPS support for MS Smartphone.... but don't worry, in 1-2 months the excellent TomTom company is releasing a version of their mapping/navigation software for Microsoft Smarpthone, and then Mapopolis will (hopefully) die, as all companies that cheat their own customers... So how it works? For free, for testing user can download so called "Demo maps" but they expire after 9 days, so after purchasing (paying money!!!) the user is limited to so called "Platinum+GPS" maps that lack such very important features in car navigation as automatic visual and spoken prompts - so, after paying money, the program is not showing this dialog at all: 
... and is not giving acoustic tips where to drive - text to speech with description when/where to turn... Here is what Mapopolis itself writes: Platinum+GPS maps support GPS devices. Door-to-door driving directions are generated and current position is automatically plotted on the map but no automatic visual or spoken prompts are generated. Demo maps are time-limited Navigator maps. When used with a GPS device, Navigator maps generate door-to-door driving directions and automatically generate spoken and visual prompts before each turn and automatically re-route when a turn is missed. We recommend to all users to wait a bit (about 1 month) and purchase navigation/mapping software for Microsoft Smartphone from TomTom - it not only has more features (including 3D preview of area - click here to read about upcoming software from TomTom for Microsoft Smartphone) but it is a decent company, not like those con men from Mapopolis.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 13 Comments ]
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