Pois are there on Android, just not poi warnings, that is the sound and visual alert when you are nearing a POI belonging to a particular category (which you can select with "warn when near POI" option in the menu on Navigator/GO, together with a choice of sounds and arbitrary distance to POI).

 

My favourite are motorway tunnels (esp in Germany and Italy, some motorways go from unlimited to 50mph in very short distance, setting tunnel warning to 2 miles lets the car coast down to the required speed), passive level crossings, especially on rural roads in Europe, other dangerous places (many countries have a local list), and of course fixed camera sites.

Agreed. I have that on mine, but I see most things on the screen. I think I glance at the screen more than I realise.

I used to use Google Maps, but as has already been mentioned, when you have no signal its just stops working. I was using Navfree, that is really quite good, but after a year you have to pay I think.

 

Now I use the built in satnav in my octavia II, it seems to do everything I want, even if it would be better if it was touchscreen.

Pois are there on TomTom Android, just not poi warnings, that is the sound and visual alert when you are nearing a POI belonging to a particular category (which you can select with "warn when near POI" option in the menu on TomTom Navigator/GO, together with a choice of sounds and arbitrary distance to POI).

 

My favourite are motorway tunnels (esp in Germany and Italy, some motorways go from unlimited to 50mph in very short distance, setting tunnel warning to 2 miles lets the car coast down to the required speed), passive level crossings, especially on rural roads in Europe, other dangerous places (many countries have a local list), and of course fixed camera sites.

 

It is on there, but as part of the HDLive package. You can set it to warn you of accident blackspots etc, but I don't think it's as customisable as you describe. In fact, it's implemented in the same way as my Start 20 Tomtom, which is only a very basic model.

Doesn't yours give you options of shorter or faster routes at the start?

 

It gives the options of different routes but the route it recommends is usually not a great choice and the alternatives are even worse, when I was recent plotting routes up from an area near Huddersfield all the routes it gave were up the east coast and none on the west coast.  The Tomtom give the west coast road as its first choice and that was the one a friend who'd taken both options recommended as well.