VinceL
Explorer Addict
- Joined
- May 24, 2011
- Messages
- 2,301
- Reaction score
- 4
- City, State
- Frisco, TX
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2013 Explorer Limited
Got to get my first taste of the 'new' navigation. I was pretty impressed. The level of detail is incredible. We chose a restaurant in a rather large corner shopping center, pretty much a really big strip center. To our surprise, the individual little roads through the parking lot in the center were mapped. Pretty cool.
The voice function worked well, with only one hiccup. We had said that we wanted 'Destination POI' and specified 'Nearby'. When it asked for the name of the POI, we said it too soon, and it would kinda sit there with a blank screen for about 30 seconds, and then go back to the main nav screen. We kept trying it until it worked, but then we realized what we needed to do. After the nav asks you for the name of the POI, wait until the keyboard starts getting drawn on the screen. When we did that, it recognized McAlister's Deli immediately (surprisingly fast as a matter of fact, that aspect was quite impressive). It seems that the MFT doesn't buffer the microphone and can only accept voice input after it had loaded the nearby POI's. Once we figured out that little quirk, we were able to plot the rest of our destinations easily.
It is a dramatic improvement over the previous version, and makes the navigation not only useful, but fun to use as well.
I'll give the Ford team an 'A' on the Nav. Fix the little bits of input delay, and I would easily give it an 'A+'.
The voice function worked well, with only one hiccup. We had said that we wanted 'Destination POI' and specified 'Nearby'. When it asked for the name of the POI, we said it too soon, and it would kinda sit there with a blank screen for about 30 seconds, and then go back to the main nav screen. We kept trying it until it worked, but then we realized what we needed to do. After the nav asks you for the name of the POI, wait until the keyboard starts getting drawn on the screen. When we did that, it recognized McAlister's Deli immediately (surprisingly fast as a matter of fact, that aspect was quite impressive). It seems that the MFT doesn't buffer the microphone and can only accept voice input after it had loaded the nearby POI's. Once we figured out that little quirk, we were able to plot the rest of our destinations easily.
It is a dramatic improvement over the previous version, and makes the navigation not only useful, but fun to use as well.
I'll give the Ford team an 'A' on the Nav. Fix the little bits of input delay, and I would easily give it an 'A+'.