I know, I know, Sygic GPS Navigation is something I'd been meaning to review for years here on AAWP*, but it never quite worked right, despite multiple attempts. Yet the continued failure of Microsoft to offer real time traffic avoidance in Windows 10 Maps, added to the (I'm still chasing that one down), led me to experimenting with Sygic all over again. It's a story of brickbats and bouquets. The latter because it's a first class navigation solution, the former because it's not 100% stable and because it too has old (2016) maps. * (after my ) One big caveat before I start - a lot depends on the specification of your Windows 10 Mobile phone. Having tried and failed to get Sygic 100% stable on a Lumia 950 (with 3GB RAM), I've now achieved slightly better (>90%) navigation stability under W10M on the Alcatel IDOL 4 Pro (with 4GB RAM), and at some extra cost if this also ticks all your boxes. To reduce dependence on Windows 10 Maps, but as you'll read below, the experiment wasn't a total success.
Notice the 'UWP' part of the name, added by me to indicate that I'm trying the Windows UWP version from the Store. The interface seems indentical to the old Windows Phone 8.1 version and the baseline build of Windows 10 supported is '10069', which was one of the pre-release builds from early 2015, from before Windows 10 was formally released. Leading me to suspect that the old code was ported as quickly as possible and also that nothing has actually been done in terms of improving Sygic's stability in the last couple of years.
Getting going with Sygic GPS Navigation - you have to download at least one country's maps before you get going. Which is fine, apart from the age of the maps (see review text below) A problem morning on the roads in Reading, caused by roadworks on the main road in. Sygic successfully found a way in using back roads though - hooray! Which is a huge shame, since there's a comprehensive real time navigator here.
The interface is busy but very useable, once I got past the hurdle of the opening map view - which has no search control or menu. After a brief puzzled moment, I found that swiping the map away from my current location brought up both the search control and the '.' Menu and I was at home from then on. Sygic's navigation UI (best used in landscape, arguably - at least is this way round!) It's all very clear, with ETA, distance and current speed shown along the bottom. Note that metric units are shown here - I switched to imperial halfway through the review period, to experience both! The idea of finding something and then navigating to it is obvious enough, but Sygic goes further with real time traffic avoidance.
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So, for example, you'll be driving along and it'll say that it's found a better route for you, perhaps avoiding a delay. Which is the Holy Grail of sat-nav - as modelled in the Android world by Google Maps. It works well, too, though in an understated way - there's often no indication that the area you're driving into is heavily congested and that the only reason you're not seeing a delay is because Sygic has planned a quick way through. Google Maps would be showing loads of red and orange on the map (for slow traffic), overlaying your best route, but Sygic only ever shows you the latter, so you just have to lean back and trust it. One of Sygic's UI innovations is a 'virtual camera' lane guidance system that appears when you need to make a major lane decision - very nicely done (and animated) indeed.