The main menu has 6 options: Find, Route, Manage, Settings, View Map and Turn Off. This works well and has prompted me to actually start saving addresses to my contacts! On first run it will import your phone contacts and alert you to any addresses it could not match up. After a couple of 'yes' clicks and a couple of minutes the software was ready to run along with a rather large and unmissable 'Nav N Go iGO 8' option on the Today screen. Installation was straightforward Windows automatically detected a new card and, after confirmation, ran the installation program. On some phones this may not be an issue if there is easy access to the SD Card slot but on the test device this involves shutting the phone down, removing the back cover, removing the battery, taking out the SIM and then you can change the card, replace the SIM, battery and back cover and then restart the device… For those devices with easier access, iGO 8 has an 'auto-run' option – when selected the software automatically loads on insertion of the SD card.

It is locked to the card so you cannot move it to a larger capacity card.

IGO 8 is provided on a 2GB micro-SD (transflash) card with adaptors for both mini-SD and full size SD. I was also told by Nav N Go that they recommend at least 28MB free program memory before starting iGO 8 – in practise there was usually between 18MB and 22MB free.

300 MHz processor (400 MHz recommended).

Microsoft® Windows Mobile™ operating system.

I was testing a standard retail version of the software albeit with a VIP license that does not allow for updates and does not include the Content Manager software.įirst up you should be warned that iGO 8 is very memory hungry! The test device is listed as compatible yet it doesn't quite meet the minimum spec stated by NavNGo as: The internal GPS receiver was used throughout.

I should point out here that the test device was a T-Mobile MDA Compact III (aka O2 XDA Orbit / HTC Artemis) with a 201Mhz CPU, 64mb RAM and running the official T-Mobile WM6 ROM.

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