Rumors about a new version?

[kacnje]

I read that some users got an invitation for a beta version - probably the new TomTom GO app is coming.
Or maybe AmiGO? Does someone know something?

 

[cjtykes]

Yea I read that too, haven't seen any screen shots yet, you'd think some of these people might upload an image. I'm on the amigo beta but not seen anything in there. I don't use the beta for GO though which is where I would expect to see it if it was anywhere.

 

[cjtykes]

The Reddit post is here which is what I saw and have commented on. https://www.reddit.com/r/tomtom/s/VEg8GPirVn

 

[cjtykes]

But, in that post, the OP says it's going to replace Amigo which confused me for a bit because I thought at some point there would be a newer go app, but they say it replaces amigo, so maybe go is staying and this is just a new amigo version. I do have the amigo beta but not had an invite to this version

 

[kacnje]

Strange. We will see.

 

[cjtykes]

Strange. We will see.

Yea, some people thought it was a new version of go, but then youd think they would release that via the Go beta channel etc

 

[cjtykes]

I've had a reply. It's just an updated version of Amigo, not go. I think some people didn't read the fact that it appeared in Amigo and not in the Go app. So it's not a new version of Go, unless there's one of them on the pipeline too

 

[kacnje]

Tnx.
TomTom GO has quite a long list of features for improvement. I'm waiting for years and almost no changes.

 

[mkz]

Yes - IMHO fixing off-line start of TTGo is a must as this prevents use of application in many cases. I'm praying TomTom will fix that before my vacations trip... But for now sadly it seems that development and errors fixing is somehow frozen - no new version since February... It's a pity as at least for me - despite of various strange behaviors - is the best one - if of course I'm able to start it...

 

[Willy875]

Considering some of the map details and other options, I find Amigo much better than TomTom GO.

I think the team working on Amigo is not the same as the team working on TomTom GO.

 

[canderson]

Considering some of the map details and other options, I find Amigo much better than TomTom GO.

How would that help people with the off-line conditions that prevent GO from starting?

 

[mkz]

Considering some of the map details and other options, I find Amigo much better than TomTom GO.

I think the team working on Amigo is not the same as the team working on TomTom GO.

In many ways You're right. Maps details are much better and these new maps are for me very welcome also in TTGo (I think that would be even easier to keep up to date only one type of maps, and Orbis maps based on openstreet maps seems to be the future of mapmaking in TomTom). But Amigo lacks many of nice features which we have in TTGo. First of all it is not offline (although nowadays it quite illusory also for TTGo as it cannot start offline), Amigo doesn't have very informative route bar, cannot save routes, cannot share arrival time, doesn't have nice wide automatic zooming... The most important thing to me is possibility to work off line as in many places during my trips I'm in places where signal is very poor or even vanishes or I want to turn off data connection outside EU.. Even at place where I live there's practically no signal so now if I don't start navigation in the range of my WiFi network then I won't have working navigation... Not nice at all, especially that if I have some problem with internet connection in my home (sometimes, fortunately not often but it happens) I can't even plan my route despite having theoretically offline TTGo

 

[mkz]

And one more thing - IMHO map displaying style (especially in navigation mode), at least for me is far better in TomtomGo thus level of details and accuracy from AmiGo - very welcome but displayed as it is in TTGo