The COM ports on your device are listed in verbose mode which makes selecting the right port much easier. Since you don't do that too often it is only a minor annoyance. For you as the end user this invariably means you will have to manually set the GPS parameters, choosing the "Other receiver" type. This is reflected in the GPS setup which clearly favours their own receivers. Navigon were always supplying both software and hardware. "Radio Mute" is a nifty feature that will mute the navigation instructions on a Pocket PC Phone Edition while a phone call is in progress. The setup is exactly the same as on the Navigon Mobile Navigator (minus the TMC part), so I won't go into much detail here, and rather let the pictures speak for themselves. You can enter the setup dialog by "changing the preferences" - either from the startup screen or when you hit the "enter" hardware key in the map view. You need to do this only once though since that activation information is also stored on the storage card (if you installed the application there) and thus survives power drains and hard resets. It is linked to a part of the Pocket PC Device ID (here they call it "hardware-id"), and requires an internet connection to obtain the code (the device doesn't need to be connected). On the first run you will need to enter your activation code. Before you can do that you will need to run the RegKiller application that can be found in the "USB" subdirectory, and then do a soft rest. If your other programs cannot find the GPS port any more after the installation of OnCourse Navigator, have a look at the list of installed programs and remove the offending Prolific PL-2303 driver. (This USBSER driver is required for some of the Toshiba PDA's) In some rare cases the install routine will also attempt to install a special USB-to-Serial driver which, not unlike TomTom GPS, redirects COM ports - much to the annoyance of people that use more than just one GPS program. It also gives more problems during un-installation (something that application vendors try to ignore…) Some may like it because it allows you to start OnCourse Navigator quicker, but to me it's an unwanted intrusion onto my setup. (This is also the true reason why the install routine would like you to reboot – it has nothing to do with "error-free operation"). One thing that is not so nice is the installation of the Today screen plug-in. To recover from a total power drain, recharge the battery on your PDA or connect it to power, run OnCourse Navigator from its storage card location and navigate away. As a result the crash recovery is exceptional. Not only does it install onto and run from storage card without complaining, it also refrains from putting tons of DLL's into the \Windows directory. OnCourse Navigator impressed in this test. Primarily to save precious RAM for running programs, but also to be on the safe side in the case of a total machine crash. As you may know I am always installing all applications to storage card or iPAQ File Store. This review attempts to expand on the European review, and to show some of the US specific aspects of the Navigon engine that sits behind OnCourse Navigator 4 The following review is yet another "World Exclusive" as we are the first to review OnCourse Navigator 4. We have recently reviewed the new Navigon Mobile Navigator | 4 (Europe) here. Navigon in the US – Easy PocketNAV OnCourse Navigator 4
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