Not suitable for N95 8Gb!

You'll notice from the photo provided to advertise this product that it shows the phone in the holder - that's fine - it does fit.
You also see the charger supplied. This is also fine - it charges the phone.
What you will not see is the phone in its cradle complete with attached charger. That's because the left-hand 'foot' in the phone cradle, obscures the power input socket, meaning that you cannot simultaneously have the phone on charge and in the holder - bit of a design fault that!!
The kit also comes with 2 possible mounts for the cradle; a decent suction mount, and a stick-on mount which has a ridiculous spring-loaded hinge. The sheer weighht of the phone invariably pulls this cradle to its lowest point within seconds making it unusable as a holder.

Not a good product - don't buy one!!

No problem with voice dialling for me!

Have nothing but praise for this brilliant little box! I have also to add that even though a few people seem to have problems with the voice dialling, i have had no such problems. Works every time. Buy one and be safe..........

DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT IF YOU DRIVE AT OVER 60 MPH

Looks like a great piece of kit and is a great piece of kit in all respects bar one.............. if you drive at over 60MPH you will struggle to hear the person you are talking to.
Have since given this to my Mrs who tends to drive on local roads and has no problem hearing the other caller and have purchased the Parrot MiniKit. Both Sony and Parrot are a similar size and carry out the same function etc etc, Parrot does not have LCD screen but can however be heard at Motorway speeds. Parrot has a great voice tag system for hands free use and Parrot is also cheaper. If you intend on buying a piece of kit like this, choose the Parrot Minikit every time, does exactly what it says on the tin!

Does not fit TomTom One Europe as currently sold by Amazon

Although this was ordered on the basis that it was featured by Amazon as 'perfect partner' to TomTom One Europe - it does not fit... I have done some research and it looks as though this particular mount is only for 'Edition One' of TomTom One Europe - presumably the latest editions of TomTom One Europe are not Edition One. This may be why one of the previous reviewers of this item says that it fits perfectly? Perhaps they have a first edition TomTom One? Obviously I rate this item as 0 as I had to return it - but of course, the Amazon delivery etc. was excellent as usual, just a shame they are misrepresenting this item on their website by selling at a 'perfect partner' to something that it does not fit!

Parrot CK3000 - a must have

I bought the ck3000 when they first came out and i have been pleased with it ever since. I have never had any problems with it, it works perfectly. Much cheaper than getting a £60 fine and 3 points on the license now that the new law is in. It is extremely clear even at fast speeds. I have recommended this advance piece of equipment to many people and they all agree that this is one classy product. Have also been most impressed with the way the music mutes automatically when a call is incoming. If you get it make sure that your car has an ISO connection. If not a way round to fitting it to the car is to buy a SOT (Sounds On Top) lead from halfords at about £19.99. However if your car has an aftermarket stereo in then it will not need the SOT lead (just a little tip).

Don't buy this! Freeze machine!

I received the RK8200 yesterday and already I am very disappointed by the product. Althought it is easy to install, the concept is great and the functionality is fantastic, as others have reported the build quality is very mediocre. The key problem with the product is that it crashes/freezes continuously. In my case it works for about 5 to 10 minutes and then it will freeze during operation of the unit. I have installed the latest software update 1.01a but no improvement.
My strong advice: Don't buy!
Francis

Super kit but lacks home charger and comes with no carry case

This really is a super sat nav; so no complaints on that front. But there is no carry case which makes this expensive piece of electronics vulnerable when being carried around. On top of this there is no at home charging kit. I am surprised at Panasonic producing such good and expensive equipment only to make it vulnerable when being carried around

Gets me where I want to go

When I upgraded my handset to an O2 Stellar with Windows mobile I arranged to have this included in the upgrade bundle. On that deal it came with an in-car windscreen mount / gooseneck arm.

The co-pilot sat nav software seems to work very well. I cannot say that I have travelled extensively with it yet, but it has got me to exact addresses when necessary.

It allows you to enter a postcode and to save target addresses. It seems to cope well with deviations from the planned route. It has lots of Points Of Interest (POI) loaded.

It also warns of speed camera positions - it seems to be pre-loaded with all the favourite parking places of the mobile safety camera vans too i.e. as you pass under motorway bridges where they sometimes park it will remind you of the fact.

The software is provided on a 1GB memory card, I think I simply installed this and away we went. There's about 0.5Gb spare to use for other things on the provided card.

It also comes with a software DVD that you can load onto your PC -"CoPilot Central". The software installs maps for all the regions onto your PC. It took an absolute age to load onto my laptop (about 20 mins). You use this CoPilot Central software on your PC to keep your phone sat nav up-to-date; whenever you run the program it connects to the internet and checks for updates (possibly map updates, but also new POI, speed camera info, or voices). Then, when you connect your PDA/phone to the PC via USB the CoPilot Central software offers to update it for you.

A point to note on maps and memory usage:

The standard supplied maps of 'UK+Ireland' are supplied on a 1GB memory card (actually a micro-SD, with adaptors for mini-SD and SD), if you add the maps of Europe you will need more than 1GB, so you'll need to install a card with sufficient capacity. NB you can choose to only transfer the sub-regions of Europe that you are interested in e.g. just France, or all except Scandinavia, or Iberia (excluding those last two still resulted in a file larger than 700MB).

When you purchase your map upgrade you will receive an unlock key by email. After you have used CoPilot Central to transfer the additional maps to your PDA/phone it will ask you for the unlock code before allowing you to use them.

The phone sat nav is very effective, intuitive in use, and seems to work very well.

By the way, it also has cycling and walking modes, and seemingly (as it's on your phone) you can use it for walking routes too!!

So far, so good - I'm happy with it.

We're headed for Lake Garda in Italy soon - I'll try to remember to update this review after that trip.

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I've been using CoPilot for a few months now and thought I'd add a bit more info:
1. The CoPilot Central software update system is a bit flakey, only in so far as it is very poor at letting you know what it is up to. You start up and run CoPilot Central on your PC, connect your handset to the PC with a USB cable, and you will find that the status page reports A)"CoPilot Central has detected a compatible device" and B)"Your version of CoPilot is up-to-date". Then, a few minutes later you will undoubtedly see a pop-up that reports"An update is available for your CoPilot Central. Would you like to install now? Doing so will report CoPilot Central." What I find is that this process repeats time and time again. The software version never increases. I can only 'guess' that it is updating data for roads, maps, etc. Just seems a bit poor that they cannot tell you what's actually happening, and that you always get the initial feedback that all is up-to-date, only to be told a few minutes later that you need to update. Anyway, this is what I have found.

2. As mentioned above, we used CoPilot to navigate all the way down to Venice earlier this year. It worked very well. We more or less threw the maps away. Even on the local/small roads. On one particular outing to a small village about 15 miles from our base we could not believe the route that we needed to follow, it was like a rally on country lanes, but CoPilot took us right to our destination.

3. You need to know where you are going, and retain some trust in your own sense over SatNav. I say this because of a few rare mis-guided instances with CoPilot e.g. it does not do tunnels; plainly, as soon as it cannot 'see' the satellites it has no idea where you are. Yet, on one occasion as we emerged from a tunnel through the Swiss Alps, as soon as it picked up the satellites, it commanded take the next right - I 'knew' that we needed to go straight on for another 80 miles to Milan, but like a droid I took the right turn.

4. If it gets you lost, it is excellent at finding your way again. It's somewhat uncanny to be threading your way through small back streets of foreign cities like a local!

5. Door-to-door routes in the UK have been entirely reliable so far. Points of Interest (POI) works really well too. If you are in a strange town and you want to know where the nearest petrol station, supermarket, bowling alley or whatever is it works well.

6. You can change the standard display in all sorts of ways to get a preferred view, colour and supporting data. We drove up to the snow line of Monte Baldi, and CoPilot was able to tell us we had reached an altitude of 4,200ft.

7. We tried the walking mode when we were sight-seeing in Venice. It worked, it found its way around, but the updates were very slow. Oddly we seemed easily able to walk ahead of it (obviously travelling much more slowly than you do in your car). I found myself holding it high in the air trying to force get a position update. I don't think you could rely on it.

8. CoPilot stores all your journeys, and you can upload them to your PC if you wish. This would probably develop into a fascinating map of your travels over time.

All in all, I am still amazed that I can do all of this with my 'phone' and am happy to commend it to all.

(With regard the looping, continual updating - CoPilot Central on my PC has updated seven times whilst I have typed the additions above. I can't help but think that I have something set wrong ......)

Handy storage device for your CDs!

This is an excellent way to manage CD storage in-car. The visor fitting holds enough CDs to keep you happy for a few journeys, and you get a better overall idea of what you have in there compared to a traditional folder storage system. It’s also really easy to fit and remove (using the velcro straps).

I drive a small car with an extremely small glove compartment, so this a welcome way to free up some space. Security isn’t really an issue as it folds up and away when you’re parked, hiding the discs from view.

Since having mine, I’ve had many people ask me where they can get their own - well, here’s your chance!

Doesn't power a laptop or a phone

Plugged in to cigarette lighter, green light comes on, all looks well. Then plug in mobile charger and... Nothing. Also with laptop, it charges for a sec, then stops, then starts, then stops, like the power supply is surging and dropping. Net effect is it will take ages to charge it up and I'm not entirely convinced it's not buggering up my laptop. Don't know if it's just not powerful enough or what, but come on 150W should charge a phone shouldn't it?