Here Wego GPS App vs TomTom Go (the missing features)
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Hi all,
I have been using TomTom Go for a few years with live traffic - it is generally pretty good and that it re-routes automatically if there is new traffic updates on your journey is a valuable feature. It is great in and around London.
However, it is missing (on an iPhone anyway) one key thing. All the sound from the app goes to your car's speakers if you have the iPhone's bluetooth turned on but you'll only hear the app's sounds if you happen to be listening to a media stream from the iPhone at the time. So if you are listening to the Radio/DAB or a CD/AUX -in/SD Card. (2014 VW system), you'll miss the TomTom instructions / warnings completely.
The only solution is to turn off bluetooth, so the app plays through the phone speakers (which is pretty rubbish as it can't always be heard and means you have now lost the ability to use the car's hands free system, listen to iPhone media etc. etc.).
There is also a cludge where you start the app, start the car, then change the output to the iPhone speaker but leave bluetooth on - this is hit and miss and as soon as call or something comes in you have stop the car and do it all over again - too much distracting hassle.
So (apologies for the lengthy explanation above!) I have been looking at alternative systems.
Nokia's Here Wego App looks promising. It is also free (unlike the TomTom subscription). It has the correct way of dealing with app instructions / warnings. You can just leave bluetooth on and the app will interrupt whatever is playing in the car (Radio/Media anything) as required. This, I believe, is how satnav and bluetooth should work.
The Here Wego app also has live traffic but I can't find anywhere if the app will also automatically reroute mid way though the journey... Limited testing hasn't confirmed this one way or the other.
Does anyone use this app and know this to be the case (or not?)
Any other suggestions for better IOS Satnav apps with both the correct sound settings and live traffic rerouting (and proper offline maps - not google maps partial solution for this) also appreciated.
Message to TomTom as well - the Go IOS app is good but users have been requesting the correct sound settings for bluetooth equipped cars about 3 years now... I wonder why this is not possible when other apps can do this without any problem?
Cheers.
I have been using TomTom Go for a few years with live traffic - it is generally pretty good and that it re-routes automatically if there is new traffic updates on your journey is a valuable feature. It is great in and around London.
However, it is missing (on an iPhone anyway) one key thing. All the sound from the app goes to your car's speakers if you have the iPhone's bluetooth turned on but you'll only hear the app's sounds if you happen to be listening to a media stream from the iPhone at the time. So if you are listening to the Radio/DAB or a CD/AUX -in/SD Card. (2014 VW system), you'll miss the TomTom instructions / warnings completely.
The only solution is to turn off bluetooth, so the app plays through the phone speakers (which is pretty rubbish as it can't always be heard and means you have now lost the ability to use the car's hands free system, listen to iPhone media etc. etc.).
There is also a cludge where you start the app, start the car, then change the output to the iPhone speaker but leave bluetooth on - this is hit and miss and as soon as call or something comes in you have stop the car and do it all over again - too much distracting hassle.
So (apologies for the lengthy explanation above!) I have been looking at alternative systems.
Nokia's Here Wego App looks promising. It is also free (unlike the TomTom subscription). It has the correct way of dealing with app instructions / warnings. You can just leave bluetooth on and the app will interrupt whatever is playing in the car (Radio/Media anything) as required. This, I believe, is how satnav and bluetooth should work.
The Here Wego app also has live traffic but I can't find anywhere if the app will also automatically reroute mid way though the journey... Limited testing hasn't confirmed this one way or the other.
Does anyone use this app and know this to be the case (or not?)
Any other suggestions for better IOS Satnav apps with both the correct sound settings and live traffic rerouting (and proper offline maps - not google maps partial solution for this) also appreciated.
Message to TomTom as well - the Go IOS app is good but users have been requesting the correct sound settings for bluetooth equipped cars about 3 years now... I wonder why this is not possible when other apps can do this without any problem?
Cheers.
Tomo1971 said:
Samsung Galaxy s8 and 9 have a feature to divert one app’s media to the phone speaker yet continue to use BT for voice calls or music.
That is, if you ever want to change phones.
The Android Tom Tom Go app lets you choose the sound channel in its setting so any Android phone would work. The Go Android app is just better than the iOS app with more features. That is, if you ever want to change phones.
(I use Waze now however...)
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