But we still remain unconvinced by this feature. So there is now a model for Wembley Stadium, for example. The S100 also includes Navman’s 3D Landmark system, and as the maps are TeleAtlas 2008.10 rather than 2007.10, this is more complete than the one included with the S30 3D.
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In the past, this could be a process of trial and error, putting in a few possible towns until the right one was found. So if you’re not sure which town an address is in, you can still find it quite quickly. But the S100’s new keyword approach lets you enter any part of the address you can remember. Normally, you would need to drill down through an address, starting with the city or town, then street. One of the most useful is the ability to search by keyword. The S100 does have a few unique features other than its design and interface, but not that many. Of course, none of this affects the core functionality. It’s a shame Navman didn’t round off the S100 with the kind of cradle found in top-end Garmin and now TomTom devices, where you can simply slip the sat-nav on its mount and head off. The cradle feels flimsy, and it’s fairly easy to miss the notches either side which secure the device in place. The car adapter power connection still uses USB, and must be attached prior to slipping the S100 into its screen mount. However, although the S100 itself is a design tour-de-force, Navman hasn’t focused its renewed flair on other aspects of its functionality. The body is made from brushed aluminium, and is thinner than you would expect for a device with a 4.3in widescreen. The S100 itself is probably the sleekest sat-nav design yet, again clearly with more than a small nod towards Apple.
The Navman S200 will include this, but hasn’t been released in the UK yet. There is also no FM transmitter or audio mini-jack, making the S100’s MP3 playing abilities mostly pointless. There is also an icon to find the nearest petrol station, but no other POI categories are given such direct access, unlike TomTom’s earlier devices which include cash machine and food options, among others. But this isn’t obvious, so you might initially miss the bottom two icons, which list nearby parking facilities and call up the media playing app. This also scrolls up in the same way as other menus. This does take some getting used to, however, and we regularly managed to re-dock the menu rather than scroll it upwards.Ī touch of an innocuous blue line in the bottom right corner of the device calls up an iconographic menu which provides access to the main sat-nav features. In order to reach portions hidden below the bottom of the screen, you touch the edge again and motion upwards to reveal the remainder, in a similar way to an iPod touch or iPhone. Touch this and the menu pops out ready for use. The menu docks behind one side of the screen, with a small edge peeking out.
Now even sat-navs are following the lead, in particular Navman’s new S100, which sports the Spirit interface it has developed in tandem with Mio.įor those familiar with previous versions of SmartST, Spirit (aka SmartST 2009) will be quite a shock. The iPhone has had a huge impact on what people expect from the interfaces on their mobile devices. The app looks a lot nicer than TabLauncher, bearing much greater resemblance to the default dock, but is pretty slow when opening and closing the dock.The Apple effect is reaching far and wide.
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ActiveDockĪctiveDock is a lot like the Windows taskbar, featuring a “Start Menu” that’s relatively well-featured but feels a little clunky. Their paid version is $4 on the App Store and removes this limitation. TabLauncher has a lite version with all of the features shown above but is limited to three tabs. However, you can make TabLauncher even faster by setting it to open right when your pointer touches the edge. There’s also a bit of closing delay when you move off, which you can turn down as well. It’s also positioned on the right side of the screen by default and doesn’t appear to have any options to change it in the settings, but you’re able to move it by dragging it around (even positioning it at an offset, or in a corner).īy default, there’s a delay for opening it, because it’s configured to open when the pointer “rests” at the edge of the screen, which is how the default dock works. The default theme looks a bit out of place on newer versions of macOS, so changing to the “Simple” theme along with a light gray color makes it blend in a little better:
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