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This is a bane of everyone's life, nobody ever formats addresses correctly, and although several addresses I have tried do work, some don't, perhaps because too much information is given which isn't available via Destinator and this can confuse it a little or too little information is given. In Destinator 3 when you are navigating to a new turn, just before approaching it you will not only receive turn directions at the top of the screen like 77y keep right, but you will also get additional information overlayed onto the map itself.

This will give you information like Keep Right , or Round About. This helps in giving you information on a turn that needs to be taken. You will also find the map display will flash from day to night and back to day again several times. This is Destinator trying to get your attention just in case you were not listening to the voice navigation.

Destinator has always had a day and night display, and this is still included in Destinator 3, but it is enhanced. It is much more easier on the eyes, and certainly easier to read.

Most companies just inverse the colours on screen which do sometimes work, but some colours come out like horrible purples or mauves. Destinator 3's night mode is much better on the screen using black's, green's, red's and gray's and really looks much more of a professional look.

It also cuts down on the brightness in-car when traveling at night. There is a huge support for POI's in Destinator 3. This will certainly make Destinator grow in popularity as we have seen with other products like TomTom Navigator and will make Destinator more of an attractive choice in the future more about this a little later.

You will see the main satellites in view, with satellite numbers, and also a green or red branch out to these satellites if a 3D fix has been locked. You will also notice that Destinator has a help screen to give prompts for helping to use Destinator and it's features.

Routing and Algorithms. Destinator 3 has some quirks which we didn't see with Destinator 2. This could be due to a more updated routing algorithm, or from updated maps not showing roads correctly. We have seen several instances where you drive along a road, approaching a roundabout to go straight on, but Destinator 3 routes you to turn left then take the next right into an industrial estate, and then weave us round the estate and back onto the same road where it would have been both quicker and shorter to just drive straight across a roundabout.

We checked this by having Destinator 2 in-car at the same time on another Pocket PC, and Destinator 2 seemed to be more accurate and routed us as we expected. We also experienced some strange routing algorithms, driving one way way to a location was as expected, but driving back the same route on a return journey seemed to want to take us down lots of smaller roads and take us off our main course.

When looking at the complete route, it appears that Destinator 3 picks the initial route it thinks you should take, and tries it's very best to keep you to this route preferring to direct you back on track to the original route for quite some time before it re-calculates a different entire route from your current position to the destination. This can be considered a good or a bad thing, depending on which you prefer, but most applications will try for a short period of time half a mile to get you back on track and after which it will re-plan a new route from your current location to destination.

So re-evaluating this, I guess it really is a bad thing. In my driving tests it repeatedly took me 6 miles of being asked to take small roads before Destinator 3 decided to re-calculate the entire route and plot the route the way I was driving which actually was the fastest route and we had this set correctly in Destinator 3.

Now there is a route recalculate option you can access by tapping the map and selecting recalculate, however this within those 6 miles seem to cause Destinator 3 to re-choose the same route all the time. I am unsure whether this is a mapping problem, or a routing algorithm problem, but this does need to be addressed.

You can see the route that was taken re-plotted which does look rather strange. The first route is what should have happened, and has on all other Routing programs including Destinator 2.

The second screenshot is what Destinator 3 tried to take. I have spoken with PowerLOC about these problems, and they believe this is down to a bug in Destinator which they are working on and hopefully will have a patch available shortly for us to test to see if it resolves these issues.

See for yourself how well Destinator 3 has improved upon the previous release. You can see in the screenshots below how the map resolution and clarity have been successfully improved upon since Destinator 2, and also how the menus are much more easier to contend with especially when in-car!

The top screenshots are those from Destinator 2, and the screenshots below these are from Destinator 3. As you can see, the maps are much clearer and precise. I think screen real estate could be put to better use here with an even larger map than Destinator 3 currently shows, but PowerLOC have also increased the map real estate area in Destinator 3 over Destinator 2. The community will allow you to change your profile and view your activation details, you can upload a package, access Frequently Asked Questions and also download various files like Skins visual , Voice Prompts, Text Skins, Themes and Utilities.

Although there isn't much available at present, PowerLOC are confident that this will spread quite quickly and make a wealth of downloads available for Destinator 3 users. Currently at the time of writing this review there were only 5 different skins available which include a Simpsons skin, Starbucks skin, CocaCola skin, Star Wars skin and a Windows XP skin, no other voice prompts, text skins, themes or utilities were present.

Well I have to hand it to PowerLOC, although there doesn't seem to be many new cutting edge features included into Destinator 3 that are not available in any other application, a lot of new features have been added and the product as a whole has been vastly improved upon, making Destinator 3 a very good contender for the top slot in the PDA market.

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