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Tips & Tricks: Make your battery last longer

By Christian | Published: May 17, 2012

Using apps like CoPilot Live which use the GPS receiver in your smartphone can cause your battery life to decrease quite rapidly. We’d always recommend using an in car charger for longer car journeys where possible. The greatest drain on your battery is caused by having your phone’s screen switched-on on all the time, as [...]

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Petrol Crisis? What Petrol Crisis – Keep one step ahead with CoPilot Live

By Tim Sergent // Marketing & Communications Manager | Published: March 30, 2012

With the prospect of a ‘may be/may be not’ tanker strike and the governments somewhat ambiguous advice to ‘use common sense’ but ‘top up’ anyway, a predictable rush to the pumps has ensued. Never the less, people still need to travel, so how about using some of CoPilot Live’s features to research your journey beforehand?  Use [...]

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Important information about map management for CoPilot Live Premium Europe (iOS only)

By CoPilot Live France | Published: December 14, 2011

As a consequence of our free map update for Europe customers, we’ve made a major change to the way maps are managed in our CoPilot Live Premium Europe app. The updated maps now exceed the 2GB maximum allowed by the Apple App Store. So to enable you to benefit from the latest maps, we’ve separated [...]

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Tip and Trick – Alternate Routing

By CoPilot Live France | Published: November 1, 2011

CoPilot Live will always try to find the best way to your destination. Since its introduction in the new version, CoPilot Live Premium, the concept behind Alternate Routes is to help our customers refine the way they want to travel by providing up to three alternative routes with details about the distance and journey time [...]

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Tip & Tricks – How to reinstall CoPilot Live after the iOS 5 update if the app appears to have disappeared

By CoPilot Live France | Published: October 25, 2011

Some of our customers have informed us of an installation issue and accessing CoPilot Live once IOS5 has been installed. In these cases, it would appear that the CoPilot Live app has disappeared. A possible reason for this is due to a back up error during the updating process and here’s how to recover the [...]

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Top Tip – CoPilot Live screen sizing – Upgrading from iPhone 3/GS to iPhone 4S

By Tim Sergent // Marketing & Communications Manager | Published: October 17, 2011

If like thousands of others this weekend, you’ve upgraded to iPhone 4S  from a previous iPhone,  you may  have noted that your CoPilot Live  display is a little on the small side. The reason why is that the 3 series of iPhone were not equipped with retina display, so restoring CoPilot Live on  a new iPhone 4S may cause [...]

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Tip and Trick – Using Bing™ local search

By Tim Sergent // Marketing & Communications Manager | Published: October 11, 2011

At CoPilot Live, in addition to getting you to your destination, we’re keen to give you the ability to find what you need, wherever  you happen to be. So, in addition to the thousands of POIs stored within CoPilot Live Premium, we’ve  integrated Bing™ Local Search – the intelligent, connected, search tool. Using the mobile internet, Bing Local Search [...]

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Tips&Tricks : CoPilot Live ActiveTraffic – How it works

By CoPilot Live France | Published: September 27, 2011

CoPilot Live ActiveTraffic – How it works 1) Choose the best route before you set-off (CoPilot Live Premium only) Simply enter your destination and CoPilot Live will display the route and estimated time of arrival in the MyRoute screen. Go into Menu>My Route> Active Traffic The impact of traffic delays will be calculated and displayed on [...]

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Top Tip – Using Wikipedia Places

By Tim Sergent // Marketing & Communications Manager | Published: August 25, 2011

Wikipedia is easily one of the world’s most visited websites and it doesn’t look like its popularity is likely to diminish anytime soon. Besides being the peoples own encyclopaedia, more location-based information is being added all the time… So why not have its  services available within your navigation? CoPilot Live thought it was time to [...]

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Tips and Tricks – Managing Favourite destinations.

By Tim Sergent // Marketing & Communications Manager | Published: August 11, 2011

Entering the same address details for the places you frequently travel to can be tedious, and thankfully, un-necessary with the Favourites feature in CoPilot Live Premium. Creating a Favourite There are  several ways in which you can turn any location into a favourite: 1) Tap on the Map In CoPilot Live Premium, simply tap on [...]

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