We found Sygic's user interface difficult to use and confusing, and we hated how it battered us with warning screens every time we opened it. For example, we had to confirm we wanted to travel through the London congestion charge zone, even when we'd configured it to accept tolls all the time.
We found Sygic had the best grasp of cycle maps, however, even leading us through a good cycle path that didn't allow cars. While TomTom and CoPilot often came up with similar routes, Sygic plotted a very different route, which was longer but more bicycle-friendly, we thought.
Sygic's multi-touch support was the worst of the sat-navs we tested. Not only could you not interact with the map once your route was planned, like TomTom, there was no support for multi-touch zooming even when browsing the map. Instead, there's a sensitive zoom control that takes up too much screen real estate -- and it's ridiculous that you can zoom out to see the whole Earth. That might be a fun feature on Google Earth, but it's a waste of time when you're trying to get where you want to go.
Sygic plotted better cycle maps than the others, but it needs more fine-tuning in other areas.
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