Odyssey Mobile V4 North America for Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone | 
 enlarge | From: Infogation
Category: Software
Buy New: $39.95
New (1) Used (1) from $39.95
Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5134
Format: Dvd-rom
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Pocket PC
Model: Odyssey V4
UPC: 804879048732
ASIN: B000K7ME98
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 2-D and 3-D map display with built-in compass | | • | Support multiple resolutions including landscape, portrait, and 240 x 240 | | • | Street level coverage for USA and Canada | | • | On-board NAVTEQ map database (SDAL V1.8.5) with 6 million POIs | | • | Multi-mode guidance includes route list, filling turn arrow or close-up map view |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Infogation's Odyssey Mobile is an award winning full-featured GPS navigation application that provides accurate vehicle positioning and turn-by-turn directions. Its intuitive user interface and patented input methods allow quick destination entry by address, crossroad and points of interest. Odyssey Mobile incorporates industry leading SDAL Format developed by NAVTEQ to provide better route calculation, smooth map display, advance search function, and superior voice guidance. Industry support for SDAL Format includes Magellan, Microsoft, Clarion, Infogation, Panasonic, and Pioneer. # Smaller memory requirement for faster loading # Simpler installation procedure # Display two immediate turns # User selectable skin # Auto adjust PDA time based on satellite time # Discernible map zoom levels # Accurate vehicle positioning and map matching # Approaching cross-street display # Destination entry by Address, Crossroad and Point of Interest # Instant recalculations when off-route # Multi-mode guidance includes route list, filling turn arrow or close-up map view # Specialized and intuitive user interface # Ready for in-vehicle use # Predictive text entry using statistical and probability analysis # Context-sensitive menus # Advance search function allows search without knowing category # Find local favorites such as Starbucks, McDonald's, Best Buy, etc. # Simple installation with map loader # Access map on DVD or online System requirement: # Pocket PC or Pocket PC Phone running PPC2002 or later OS # 166 MHz or greater Processor # Minimum RAM: 20 MB, Recommended: 32 MB # Storage capabilities (built-in or external storage card) at least 128 MB # NMEA compatible GPS Device Software is not refundable. To test drive the Odyssey Mobile, please download free 3 day trial. Click here to download trial version http://www.infogation.com/download/index.html
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| Customer Reviews:
Are they even still around? November 9, 2008
Mike in San Diego (San Diego, CA USA)
This is actually a pretty good product. I bought it over a year ago for my AT&T Tilt at a good price. It was easy to install and easy to use. The maps were a little out of date but the company promised a new version with new maps on their website. There were a lot of feature requests on the website that were to be included in the next update. The website with its promises are unchanged in over a year and I suspect it may have been unchanged for a year before that.
Pro: It works without having to have a constant internet connection
Con: See above
Too bad, because it had a lot of potential.
Navigation For The Budget Conscious January 4, 2008
P. Heath (Hurst, TX United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
QUICK REVIEW: This navigation software is a step up from the DeLorme or Microsoft offerings for Windows Mobile. It gives decent performance for basic routing and navigation, but it does have some drawbacks. If you already have a PDA and GPS receiver, this is a fairly low budget navigation solution. My detailed usage based review follows:
SETUP: I used this software with my Dell Axim X51v and Mobile Crossing Bluetooth GPS Receiver. Installation of Odyssey Mobile on my Axim was fairly easy although not the most intuitive. The main gripe I have relates to the maps. They are ~2.3 Gb so you cannot get the entire set on a 2 Gb SD card. I selected the states that I was least likely to go to and removed them from the set to be transferred until I was below the limit. While this will probably never be an issue, it does slow down the installation process.
Configuration of the software to use the GPS is similar to any other Bluetooth Serial Port device and presented no challenges. As for the other "Settings", I only changed the "Map Settings" to use "Map Mode" of 3D View and "Day/Night" of Auto Mode. That was essentially all of the setup that I did.
NAVIGATION: You can select your destination by entering an address, selecting from history, POI, favorites, or cross road. When entering an address, Odyssey Mobile limits the available characters as you spell out street names, cities, etc. to only allow valid entries.
Once you have the address selected, you can begin navigation by selecting "Go", or you can select "Save & Go" to store the address as a favorite.
If you simply want directions between two places without using a GPS, you can also choose "Set Origin" the select a destination.
ROUTING/REROUTING: This is *the* feature that must work properly. I found that for the price this software does a pretty reasonable job. In driving to and from work and around town, the routes that the software generates are generally what I would normally take. Rerouting usually took 2-3 seconds, and it seems that Odyssey favors a simple algorithm that skips to the next logical street rather than using U-turns.
I did experience a couple of things worth mentioning. One day I had to take an alternate route home due to a traffic jam. This caused about six rerouting calculations. The sixth one locked up my Axim, and I had to do a soft reset. It only happened this one time, and it could have been a combination of factors such as time since last reset and other apps used in that time.
The other is thing that is more of an annoyance involves losing track of the current position. I found that in "mix master" areas where you have multiple highways coming together, Odyssey could not discern which road I was on and recalculate the route. This could be an issue in an unfamiliar place.
GRAPHICS: This is an area where Odyssey is average. I installed the software in "Portrait" mode because my vent mount for my Axim would not secure the device in "Landscape" mode. This is where my biggest complaint with Odyssey comes in. The next turn, distance to turn, destination arrival time, and distance to destination are valuable information to be sure, but they take up a large portion of the map on the right hand side. It totally obscures the street name of the cross street when you are at an intersection. This may be less of an issue in "Landscape" mode, but most PDA users will be running in "Portrait" mode.
This is a QVGA application so it does not take advantage of the better resolution that my X51v has to offer. While the rendering is a bit jagged, it is not so bad as to be unreadable. It is more aesthetic than anything.
Otherwise the graphics are pretty good. Along the bottom of the display is the street you are currently on while the top displays the next turn. I tried both 2D and 3D modes and found that the map moves fairly smoothly. One other thing that could be better is "Night Mode". Most other GPS software that I've used uses a black background for night mode, but Odyssey uses a darker blue. I found this to be a little bright, but not so much as to make the software unusable.
SOUND: Being budget software, this is an area where Odyssey cut corners. While the quality of the sound is good (although somewhat device dependent), there is no Text to Speech. For the price I found this an acceptable trade off. However the directions are a bit more extensive than just "turn left". Odyssey tells you the difference between "make a left turn" as you would on a city street and "enter the highway to the right". It also uses "keep to the right" and "veer right" to distinguish lanes that can go either way at a fork vs. lanes that must take a fork when highways split. The final nice feature is that when you arrive at your destination, Odyssey tells you which side of the street it is on. This is handy for areas where street numbers are not easy to find.
CONCLUSION: If you are considering a budget GPS solution such as DeLorme for your Windows Mobile device, this is definitely a step up. Other software packages cost a bit more, but you also get more features. This is not TomTom or iGuidance to be certain. For the budget minded or those looking for an entry level software package, this is probably a decent choice.
 Doo not buy - please read December 2, 2007
rsrsrs (Texas, United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have had this for over a year. Have used it only 10-15 times - spent most of the time debugging / getting thinge to work. Peeves:
(a) outdated maps
(b) Repeatedly locks up with Axim x51v
(c) Infogation website boasts "award winning" -- try googling and you will see this is a ogus claim
(d) their website claims v4. Again, google it and you will realise this is v1 - branded as v4. If you use the software, you will see that if this is v4, they must be very very poor developers as most companies get things right by v3.
(e) A year ago, their support (responsive in autoreplies but useless in solving real issues) e-mailed me saying new release will be in a few weeks. It has been a 11 months now.
I tend to give very reasonable reviews but this company stinks. Please try things really well before you buy. Or, stick with known brands like Garmin. I thought I was saving bucks last year when the $200 gps+software package was on black fri for $100 - ended up wasting $100.
Cheers!
 Great product BUT March 20, 2007
biggestbamboo
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great product BUT what year's edition is being offered here? This year (2007) or left overs (2006). Buying maps for your GPS is like buying a record books -- who wants the old edition?
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