PowerNavigation Pro (S80) 1.0 review (mobile)

PowerNavigation Pro will let you use your GPS receiver for all kinds of navigation tasks as effectively as possible.

License: Trial OS: Symbian File size: 0K Developer: Rock Your Mobile!       Price: $23.00 User Rating:   Currently 0.00/5 1 2 3 4 5

PowerNavigation Pro (S80) 1.0 is gps software developed by Rock Your Mobile!.
PowerNavigation Pro will let you use your GPS receiver for all kinds of navigation tasks as effectively as possible. You can use custom maps with the help of PowerNavigation Pro. It will also let you watch direction, movement speed, level of GPS signal and satellites' monitoring, record passed way, create waypoints, tracks and different sound events.
This program requires a separate GPS receiver. It's not supplied with your device!

PowerNavigation has four views: Track view, Navigation view, GPS info view and Information view.

Basic terms and concepts:

- Bluetooth GPS receiver - a device that receives signal from a satellite and sends it via bluetooth to your device. You can find a list of some GPS receivers here. To choose and activate GPS receiver, select view Settings, then General. In dialog General check on GPS Active and select Address ;

- Map - a map is prepared in a special program - MapEditor for PC . A map corresponds to some actual place. Maps can also be calibrated on your device. When you create a map, you can create POI and routes;
All imported maps stored in folder DocumentsMedia filesotherPNMaps;

- POI - points of interest;

- Route - several linked waypoints representing a route. Routes can be created in PowerNavigation or received with a map. To perform navigation along a route select dialog Routes, press button ">" and select Activate;
All imported routes stored in folder DocumentsMedia filesotherPNRoutes;

- Waypoint - a point with coordinates and an icon. Waypoints are joined into groups. If you need to set a waypoint as a destination point, you should open dialog Waypoints, select a necessary waypoint, press button ">" and select Activate. When a waypoint is reached PowerNavigation can play a sound in case it is set;

- Track - a totality of waypoints that are automatically saved during movement. A route can be created from a track, in order to do this select dialog Routes, press button ">" and select Add from track. A track can be played;
All imported tracks stored in folder DocumentsMedia filesotherPNTracks;

Track view

In this view you can perform navigation along a map, POIs, a track, a route and waypoints. You can also create and edit routes and calibrate a map. For scroll you can use cursor arrows for smooth scrolling hold Shift key use cursor arrows.

In this view you can see information:

- Coordinate;
- Altitude;
- Speed;
- Bearing;
- Distance;
- Scale;

Operations:

- Send position (SMS/MMS/E-Mail/Fax);
-Autoscrolling (On/Off);
- Home (Jump to point there you are);
- Mini-compass (On/Off);
- Zoom In/Out;
- Add waypoint;
- Edit route;
- Save track as;
- Clear track;
- Play track;
- View POIs;
- Calibrate map(previuosly map has to be loaded);

Track player:

- Previous point;
- Play;
- Pause;
- Stop;
- Next point;

Map POIs:

- Search;
- Goto;
- Info;
- Create waypoint from POI;

Navigation view

In this view you can see the compass and detailed information:

- Coordinate;
- Altitude;
- Speed;
- Bearing;
- Heading;
- Distance;
- Odometer;

Compass types:

- Rotated;
- Fixed;

Navigation types:

- to waypoint;
- by route;
- by bearing;

GPS info view

The following information is shown in this view:

- Coordinate;
- Altitude;
- DOP - Delusion Of Precision;
- Fix 2D/3D/Not valid/(If GPS turned off: last fixation time);
- SNR-indicators (Signal-To-Noise Ratio);
- Satellite position;
- Odometer;

Information view

The following information is shown in this view:

- Speed or altitude chart;
- Coordinate;
- Altitude;
- Average altitude;
- Speed;
- Average speed;
- Track length;
- Position accuracy;
- Odometer;

CBA keys:

Settings

General:

- Font size (Small/Normal/Big)
(Hotkey in view: Ctrl + Up, Ctrl + Down);
- Track line width (1px./2px./3px.);
- Transparent labels (On/Off);
- Show grid (On/Off);
- Datum (WGS-84/As in loaded map);
- Coordinate format (ddd mm.mmmm` / ddd.dddddd / ddd mm` ss.ss`` / UTM);
- Measure (Metric/Statute mile/Nautical mile);
- Backlight settings (Always on/On if GPS or charger/On if GPS/On if charger/Off);
- Alarm diameter (in meters);
- Save point severy (1-60 sec.);
- Track smooth (0-100 %);
- GPS log (On/Off);

GPS:

- GPS Active (On/Off);
- Bluetooth address of GPS receiver;
- Baud rate of receiver;

Sounds:

- GPS activated;
- GPS deactivated;
- Waypoint reached;
- GPS fixed;
- GPS fixation lost;

Color themes:

- Activate;
- Add / edit / delete;
- Import / Export;

Maps's operations:

- Activate/Deactivate;
- Send via (Bluetooth/Infrared/File);

Waypoints:

- Waypoint groups: Add/Edit/Delete/(Un)Mark/Export;
- Waypoints: Add/Edit/Delete/Mark/Unmark/Import from GPX/Export to GPX/Goto;
- Group properties: Name; Sound; Icon; Color;
Waypoint properties: Name; Latitude; Longitude; Group; Sound; Icon;

Route's operations:

- Set destination;
- Add new route;
- Edit route name;
- Delete route;
- Add from track;
- Send;
- Import from GPX;
- Export to GPX;

Track's operations:

- Add new track;
- Edit track name;
- Delete track;
- Clear 'Default' track on exit (On/Off);
- Send;
- Import from GPX;
- Export to GPX;
- Play;

Supported NMEA commands:

- GPGGA
- GPGSA
- GPGSV
- GPRMC
- GPGLL
- GPVTGLimitations:

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