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"Thank you very much for your prompt support. I am really impressed with the product. It is really a great device for the road. Best wishes for all of you."

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Lucknow map is very good and helped me immensely when I went for a family wedding

Aseem Kishore, Director, Assa Marketing

Thank you very much for your prompt support. I really feel that this is what sets Satnavtec apart from the others in the field. I am really proud to be your customer. Thanking you again for your support.

Ram Mohan P

"Really surprised and amazed at this quick response. Really appreciate it. Great Customer service !!"

Prashant

"Guys, One word – Impressed, amazing service, great guys to talk & above all responsive & progressive solutions, I had a problem with my device & though it must be due to old maps( 2007), I ordered new map upgrade one online & got the cd delivered within 24 hrs – 1st stage of satisfaction , later in the day i got a mail from your a/c stating that my card has been charged twice by error & they have refunded excess – Surprise surprise, Usually these errors are found once we get credit card statement & there on its herculean task to set right errors. This was amazing & speaks loads of ethics. Lastly while discussing with your techie murali, We realized device may have had an error & he suggested to send device to Satnav for rectification, I promptly did & lo, I get a call next day from Murali confirming device has been rectified, latest software updated & same has been couriered back, I recvd device back perfectly working & thoroughly impressed. If all your actions are to offer excellent service/retain & grow customers, Then you are doing everything right, All the very best & congrats, Special thanks to Murali. Am surely going to recommend Satguide to my friends & collegues." Good Luck Guys.

Jay.Rao, Director – Strategies, Canon Group.

"I didn't expect a response on a Sunday and that too a prompt one. The customer service at satguide never fails to surprise me. You and your team have set extremely high standards for yourself.

Good luck!."

- Bhavesh

"Thank you, I have activated. I am really impressed with the quality of the customer service. Really professional and helpful."

- Abhijit Kulkarni

"I would like to thank you and your entire team for the launch of latest map containing 620 cities. Its really great to be a part of Satguide .Would like to mention the excellent services provided by SatGuide team. They always listen patiently to the feedback I give and solve the issues if any .Great work done. Looking forward for some more exciting news from your group."

- Naveen Saini

"SatGuide is very nice and reliable service. They have excellent service and queries are responded instantly.
Very good - keep it up!"

- Vijay Naik

"Thank you very much for the excellent and a very prompt support. The customer support remains unparalleled despite the growth of the company. I feel really honored to be associated with such a company as its customer. Frankly speaking, I have been experiencing this right from day one as your customer. SatGuide has really set an example and a benchmark for customer support."
Thanking you again, I remain gratefully yours...

- Ram Mohan. P

"I would like to express my appreciation for the dedication and hard work Murali (Customer Support Team) had demonstrated while following up my case. He is closing the case 3-4 days before the committed date and in addition he has kept me updated with the status of my case on frequent basis. It is employees like Murali who give reasons to “Why I like the services of SatNav."

- Manmeet

"I recently bought the SatGuide ONE INDIA maps for my Garmin Nuvi. I decided to take it for a test ride when I went to Mumbai from Pune a few days back. I was extremely happy and pleased with the experience. Between Pune to Mumbai, I used the "View Map" mode on the Garmin. To my surprise and delight, every single road enroute was correctly identified - including the upcoming intersection information.

Emboldened, on the trip back, I selected the "Go Home" - which in US and Canada would give you turn by turn instructions. Before I started driving, It showed Mumbai-Pune as one straight line. However, as soon as I started driving, it plotted the entire route including turn by turn instructions. What shook me even more with excitement was the fact that it even included advice on taking flyovers. In India where we spend crores of rupees on flyovers, but fail to spend that little extra on putting up signs, I found this EXTREMELY useful.

Thank you and great job!! "

- Abhijit

"None of your staff members have disappointed me. The culture at SatGuide is something no other Indian company can even dream of achieving. SatGuide is a benchmark in customer service."

- Firoze Mistry

"The present upgrade is a great improvement. The quality of the maps is much better than the competition. Your software is also much much better. If u include many parts of India with also the peripheries you would be the best. All the best in 2009 to bring much better software which your competition cannot stand up against!"

- Dr. Saravanakumar

"Thanks for your prompt response, rather surprised to see such support in wee hours. Hats off to SatGuide and its team who make wonders, and keep the customers amused. Thanks for the help and support."

- Rakesh Hada

"SatGuide is like Apple's answer to Microsoft - reliable, simple, user-friendly. Congratulations to you and your team who developed this software."

- Anurag Anand

"The recent updates have been excellent. I am much happier with this new update. Your team at SatGuide is going excellent job. Within a year’s time, your team has put in tremendous amount of difference to the maps in the updates. Very good TEAM SatGuide. My best wishes to the team in bringing a good product to the Indian market."

- Shibu Anthony

"Your support has helped me adopt the SatGuide GPS system smoothly. And now it’s my most trusted equipment in all my travels. I have done my first thousand kilometers using SatGuide and must say that it has been an excellent support tool. Not to mention the peace of mind it gives to know that I will never be lost again. The new map is excellent. Thank you. I look forward to, and wish you all the very best for all your future work."

- Shantanu

"I purchased the new model P552w and installed the Destinator navigation application. Both the phone and the application are a perfect match and made for each other.

The latest 256/128 MB phone works very fast and I am using in cities like Hyderabad, New Delhi, Mumbai and the latest POI list is very helpful in finding the location. The accuracy is almost 100% on the navigation. Even the directions in the junctions are perfect. If you are driving a bike, just hook on the ear phone and set the destination point and blindly turn left and right as per the Destinator’s instructions. Believe me you need not see the map and you will reach the destination. Auto rickshaw drivers cannot cheat you.

I am very happy with the SatGuide - Destinator application and P552W ASUS phone."

- K.Murali Krishna

"I am extremely happy that I am using your software. It’s my pleasure complimenting you and your team – you have a wonderful team working with you. The best part about your team is that they are willing to take responsibility and finish the work quickly. It gives me immense satisfaction using your product and would like to recommend your product to anyone I come across."

- Deepak Bhargava

"Thanks. I am overwhelmed by the Customer service and I could not Stop myself replying.I have got response which I can call Customer Service. Kudos to your team! KEEP IT UP."

- Mohd.Yusuf Siddiqui

"SatNav is a really ingenious move towards providing GPS mapping facilities. Not only will it help commuters, it can be used to track vehicles and convoys, in traffic routing, as well as in designing ergonomically sound supply chains. SatNav can have the 1st mover advantage if it really keeps to the task."

- Amrendra

"Maps Feedback: presently used mostly in mumbai and is very helpful. I have also used on the outskirts of Mumbai and Maharashtra and it superb."

- Nainshad Daruwalla

"Thanks for your prompt mail and excellent support. I feel that SatNav Technologies really rocks when it comes to customer support. In fact after being a proud owner of the PND that I purchased from you nearly 9 months back, I have been recommending your products to many of my friends. This is necessarily due to the proactive nature of the customer support team. Keep up the good work. I was extremely happy to find that SatGuide has been bundled with ASUS-P750 which I purchased last week. It was a pleasant surprise for me since I thought of placing an order with you for the SatGuide software for P750 upon reaching home on the day of purchase. I sincerely hope for a long and a happy relationship with you and your team."

- Ram Mohan P

"I came across this wonderful product that is simply superb. I never have seen before such a thing that now helps me as a pilot while I am on move. I now plan my route very systematically and with the help of enhanced maps that this GPS navigator provides. Its large screen has great clarity also. I get all important visual as well as audio alerts while I am traveling. Indeed fantastic ‘utility software’! Go for it if you are an avid traveler."

- Kiran Billimoria

"I started using your product from Jan-08 & have been regularly in touch with your staff. In these 4 months, my experience with your team has been wonderful & I have been experiencing & enjoying the super fast transformation in your products & services offered by your esteemed group. With the introduction of SatGuide7 with HLG graphs, I feel you have gone far ahead in this field & setting standards & a benchmark for others."

- C.Srikanth

"Bangalore map is very accurate even in remote parts of the city. Voice guidance is very helpful and I am able to use headset while riding bike also. I have used One India map during my drive from Bangalore to Trivandrum and found very useful, especially in the night where you miss the signboards."

- John OJ

"For the last 2 months (i.e. since ONE INDIA) the way the team has improved their maps is truly unbelievable. The accuracy has improved the look and feel has improved and I believe the price too has improved.

I would now Full Heartedly recommend SatGuide to anyone who wishes to purchase it. May I also add that initially I had bought 2 external GPS receivers for my friend and myself and it worked seamlessly with both windows phones (KJAM and P3400). In fact it is sometimes better than internal GPS receivers since you can put the receiver anywhere in the car or your pocket and the phone can be elsewhere instead of baking in the sun. I however got myself an Asus P527 with an internal GPS receiver with SatGuide and it works beautifully. I have used other Maps but SatGuide is probably the easiest to use. Kudos guys.

Also I really appreciate the fact that Mr. Amit Prasad (Founder, MD & CEO, SatNav Technologies) takes personal interest. This will go a long way Sir."
Thank you

- K Thacker

"My colleagues and I were traveling by train and we were sleeping. My friend who had just woken up and he asked me – Where we were and which station was close by?
Like a flash, thought of SatGuide came in my mind & I switched it on. Like a magician’s device, I could see where we were, what speed the train was traveling, the route it was taking. I was able to approximate the distance and the ETA to the next station. We even had bets on accuracy of my calculations on arrival time at various stations and I won. The real enjoyment came when I told them - when we were passing over rivers & through level crossings where the roads on the map would cross our path. We were awestruck when the train passed through the Ahmedabad city and seeing the train pass through all the roads in the city map was really a fantastic sight. This was the first time in my life when I enjoyed seeing what’s passing on the outside of the train from inside the map. Lastly but not the least, when the roads in the map passed along our train, we could only remember the song from the movie “Aradhana” - “Mere sapnon ki rani kab aayegi tu, Aayi rut mastaani kab aayegi tu, Beeti jaaye zindagaani kab aayegi tu, Chali aa, tu chali aa.............”
Best wishes to SatGuide for your future developments & products."

- C.Srikanth

"You guys continue to do good work. The responsiveness your organization shows every time I write to you is exemplary. It’s a pleasure to be your customer. "

- Probal

"In Delhi, I drove from Vashundra Ghaziabad to Badarpur Border. It’s a good experience again with this latest MAP, and then I started again for Hauz Khas. Again it works as an expert driver who knows every route in Delhi."

- Anil Kumar

"I recently received the C230 Mio GPS with the excellent support of your customer service I became one of the most relaxed drivers of Bangalore. The usual road blocks like construction, traffic jam, deviation or other situations that usually occur during driving, are now resolved by just taking any other route available. If everybody would have this service the roads would be used much more to our advantage! "

- Joep

"I would like to appreciate the excellent support provided to me during the installation and activation of the SatNav products (the software and the Bluetooth GPS receiver).”

- Apoorv

"I happen to go through your website and I am happy to find some one doing a right job. Practically I thought of doing some project in that line, even though, Indian Roads are not that marked as good as a USA or European roads. Anyway your effort must be appreciated and GPS is a must for any nation and for India."

- Rajarams.K, I R S.

"Good going – you guys would go in the history of Indian GPS Market... "

- Naveen Srinivasan,KPMG, UK

"I must commend you and your company for such a revolutionary effort in bringing navigation to Indian space. I am quite thrilled that the technology is now available in India!"

- Founder, Mouthshut.com

"SatNav Technologies works on cutting edge technologies which benefit people"

- Teja News

"The navigator has a lot of oomph"
- Leading business magazine Business Today
"I have found your product quite interesting"

- R. N. Mukhija, President (Operations) & Member of the Board, L&T Ltd.

"Hi SatNav, I am really excited to see this happening in India. You are really going to make a difference in how people navigate through the busy roads in India. This is an excellent effort......"

- Bhanu Pratap, Cognizant

"It's a wonderful job that you guys are doing... I was in Paris last month and I saw the Cabbies using GPS system to take me to my Hotel. I was thinking it might be sometime before I see such sophisticated things in India. Now I wonder if I am not keeping myself updated on India's progress. Good Job & Good Luck"

- Santosh

"Wonderful! With the improved roads and cars in India, driving direction will be a big hit for weekend travelers!!"

- Govind

"Excellent, as a regular traveler I am very pleased to see something of this kind. excellent once again keep it up"

- Karthik,Southern Group

"I am very happy to note that you have come out with this much needed software for our country"

- S Chandrashekhar

"I have gone through your website and your product. I think it is great and has a large potential"

- Shantharam S S

"I am a concept consultant and SATNAV and Destinator has been a lifesaver as I extensively travel and this software doesn't ever fail me."

- Ujjal

"I wish to Congratulate one and all in SatNav for providing this facility; I have recently purchased this product and I am really impressed with its performance and capabilities...."

- Arun Shanker

"I have used the navigation system in UK and I am fully aware of the advantages of this system. May I congratulate on bringing this system to India and the sooner you cover all the cities of India the better."

- Prashit Shah

"Thank you very much for your prompt support. I am really impressed with the product. It is really a great device for the road. Best wishes for all of you."

- Debabrata Dey

"Happy to know that our country is responding well to the techy demands. Good work friends. I am an NRI, who visit India for professional and business reasons as well as 'coming home', many times a year. I drive around a lot and find it really exciting. I think your product can help me a lot. I Cheers!!"

- Raj, Transatlgroup

"I am most satisfied with the data that you have provided and accuracy is quite good."

- Rakesh Noel

"The mumbai map seems pretty upgraded. It seems like proper GPSing. Thanks. Keep up the good work guys. Best wishes"

- Jinesh Patiala

"Thank you so much for your mail. I will wait for you to send me the new version of the map, thank you. I must say that SatGuide as a company has been excellent I am very satisfied with the way your support team has responded and communicated with me. You all can be proud to know that not only are you one of the pioneers of GPS technology in India, but you are also providing excellent after sales support to your customers. I have been almost an unofficial member of your sales team, singing SatGuide's praises to many of my colleagues, many of whom have purchased or will purchase from SatGuide soon. So your offer of a free upgrade whenever the new version of the Delhi map is released is only the icing on the cake. Thank you so much for the offer. I shall wait for the new version of the Delhi map and then avail it."

- Vishrut Seera

"I am using the updated Delhi map since one week now, and it's very good. All the errors are corrected. Roads are named. Flyover information is very good (yes dhaula kuan is mapped now). Also, more than half of the Greater noida expressway is mapped. Many more POIs marked. Overall, I guess its a very good update and one should go for it.."

- Gaurav

"Yes Gaurav, I also found the Delhi map very well updated. It has many residential localities also mapped (using it extensively in Gurgaon)."

- Sathya

"The best thing was the details the map has! It has detail roads of and place like Devlali, just amazing & that too accurate to meters. Well I am not exaggerating, I am writing this mail after a long drive throughout Nasik City & Devlali today evening. Wonderful Job indeed! I wait to see more cities in the list as well as more details. All the best to u n ur team."

- Sambit

Customer Testimonials

" The position shown in map (in a GPS enabled phone) is ** EXACT ** !! Thank you for coming out with an wonderful application like this and the pricing is also competitive. I’ll definitely spread the word in my professional and personal circles!!"

- Sathyavageeswaran R

"" The lost mobile function is really a fantastic service. Good work"

- Revant Reddy.

"I keep telling to my friends who have expensive mobiles to install your free application. Nice innovative service, keep it up"

- Prasad Vemula.

"SatNav support was excellent, the support person explained very well about the service. This service has lot of potential; This service needs lot of publicity and propagation. I feel that my mobile is secured now " .

- Abijeet Mukherjee.

"Good free application and excellent service. Congratulations to SatNav on coming up with this idea " .

- Rohan Gupta

SatNav Customer Testimonials

- Amrendra

- Ram Mohan P

- Deepak Bhargava

"Thanks. I am overwhelmed by the Customer service and I could not Stop myself replying.I have got response which I can call Customer Service. Kudos to your team! KEEP IT UP."

- Mohd.Yusuf Siddiqui

"I would like to appreciate the excellent support provided to me during the installation and activation of the SatNav products (the software and the Bluetooth GPS receiver).”

- Apoorv

"SatNav Technologies works on cutting edge technologies which benefit people"

- Teja News

"Hi SatNav, I am really excited to see this happening in India. You are really going to make a difference in how people navigate through the busy roads in India. This is an excellent effort......"

- Bhanu Pratap, Cognizant

"I am a concept consultant and SATNAV and Destinator has been a lifesaver as I extensively travel and this software doesn't ever fail me."

- Ujjal

"I wish to Congratulate one and all in SatNav for providing this facility; I have recently purchased this product and I am really impressed with its performance and capabilities...."

- Arun Shanker

- Manmeet

All i can say is i had used the SatGuide in the past and was very much interested in having it on all the PDA & Mobiles i ever used. I Find it very useful and important and easy tool which becomes part of life on everyday use just like a Mobile.

Ritesh

I would like to share my experience, this when I decided to drive to Shirdi (Maharashtra) from Delhi.. in my past I had never driven that long (approximately 4000 Km to and fro..) during my journey i covered many states and cities.. it was a great fun and I never had to worry about the roads as I had Satguide maps with me and they were always helpful in finding Petrol Pumps, restaurants and hotels. as I went via Mumbai and Pune and I was really comfortable in driving in those uncharted territories.. the maps have helped me choose the correct highway and short routes ..since then my confidence of driving has gone really up and today I just pick up my car feed the destination and drive away without any fear of being LOST.. by the way the maps have also helped me a lot in driving within Delhi especially through the places like India gate and other similar looking places which can easily confuse any one ...Thanks to sat guide for making my drives easy and help boost my confidence in exploring the uncharted territories.

Deepak

This is My GPS Story. This is Abhinav Mishra from Mumbai. My parents are living in Delhi. Every time they visit to Mumbai or go back to Delhi we need to drop them to Mumbai Central Rly Station. We live in Malad(w). Our place is too far from Mumbai Central. Our work place area is Anderi(w). So occasionally we go to Mumbai Central. We are not so much aware about that area. So what i did was i select the Rly Station in POI category. then i select the desired Rly Station which was Mumbai Central. Once I reached there I set the destination Rly Station in my Favorites list. Now I don't need to worry. Now before leaving home to Rly Station. I just select the destination from my Favorites list and click on GO. It's become so easy on my PDA device through SAT NAV GPS Receiver.

Abhinav Mishra, Scorpbond Infosys

I had visited Sydney in the month of March this year. During the weekend i went for sightseeing with one of my friends settled down there. The weather was awesome and we planned to go on the Grand Pacific drive. We saw on yahoo maps where we need to go and there we go. With our navigation device stuck up on the windscreen and yes the thing seem to be simple. Turn by turn, the directions were getting announced and we took one wrong turn. Believe me in next 5 seconds a fresh announcement is made and our new route layout is in front of us. This was nothing but magic for me as i had never seen this device earlier in India and whatever was happening in front of me was nothing short of a miracle. The device was not only telling the way but also announcing some hotspots that were coming in between and their brief description. i had pacific ocean moving along with me on the left, smooth highway looking forward and at ease as we were being guided where we have to go. The entire drive was nothing short of a memorable experience which was made easy by the personal navigation device. Kudos to this technology and looking forward for the similar technology in India too.

Rajat Bhatia

I have an interesting experience to share which indicates that God always Provides Support. This May, I with family was to visit Mumbai but train tickets were not available. I was at a loss what to do. The options were either to travel by air or go by road. The Air Travel was not economic option compared to road travel. But the road option was also sounding intimidating since none of us is good at roads and routes. Suddenly my son cooed, Papa! You just purchased car stereo with in-built GPS why not to try it out the same. The Idea made sense and mustering all our courage though with lurking fear in mind, we set out on our first ever road journey to Mumbai. GPS really proved God Provided Support to us. It was peak summer air conditioner was on with windows closed and we did not want to spoil the inside coziness by downing the panes. One may find it hard to believe, since we ourselves found it difficult to believe that GPS can be so powerful and useful that it made us reach Mumbai without inquiring even once on the way- no pains of downing the panes. The remaining interesting part of our journey was when we reached our destination point i.e. Hiranandani Estate, we had difficulty in locating the flat. We were lucky again courtesy Mobile though not GPS this time. We made it. How I wish the GPS can provide the house level support also!

VK Jain

I had updated my map on my Garmin Nuvi and did a trip to Kerala earlier this month. I am really sorry to say the maps are really not up-to-date. These routes taken on this trip was: 1.Bangalore-Mysore-Gundulpet-Bandipur-Gudalur-Nilambur-Manjeri-Calicut.(I was totally lost between Gudalur to Calicut. I was lucky as I knew the route to Calicut, if not I would have ended up reaching back to Bangalore). 2.Calicut- Kalpetta- Sulthanbatherry- Gundulpet-Mysore-Bangalore.( When i did a shortest route simulation I was told to take a U turn after Mandya to go back, where it was not necessary and it was a state highway heading straight to Bangalore). The concern is that this defeats the purpose of having these mapped and devices if they are to simulate you to wrong roads and longer routes all the time. Would request you to have a look into this and tell me if it is a problem with my Nuvi or it is your maps, so I can decide on changing one or both of these to avoid such situations in future. Thanking you,

Vivek Vinod

Due to navigational problem on unknown road, i was abstained for a long drive. But recently when i had a SatNav guide device, i have decided to drive to my native in Kerala via Mumbai. I started on 3rd may from Surat Hazira to Mumbai with my device on with necessary in puts. Really i was surprised to note that every street has been shown on the map and my car was absolutely on the road. The device uses nearest route to reach the destination and speaks whenever there is a turning, 2 km before, then 1 km before , then 500 mts and 200 mts and finally on turning. When i change the route it use to recalculate the route immediate within 1 minute and let us know the nearest route . If i don’t care for a u turn told by the device i was forced to comeback after some time. when i was nearing Mumbai thane i was little bit confused then i asked my 10 years old son to hold the device and look in to it. The device guided us very accurately turn by turn. And very easily we reached Vashi without any body’s help . Then i started to CBD with my device and drive through the road and the device really guided me through the road to CBD. From CBD next morning we started for Hubli with this device. By then my son was familiar with the device and he use to show the route. When i reached Hubli I did not go by the route and a shop keeper told me to go back to reach the bus stand as the device was showing the correct route. Then i had been to Udupi Krishna’s temple, the device shown me till the car parking area just behind the temple. Then we had been to Kasaragod via Mangalore. It was really a memorable journey with this device on the car. Then on 25 we return back to Surat Hazira

KGBHAT

GPS saved me Time/Energy and Money in Singapore.I visit Singapore every alternate year for a week Holidays. Having stayed there from 1981 to 1987, knowing the place quite well but new developments always confuses you. Singapore has an excellent Train (MRT) & Bus services but to get taxi is a bit difficult and expensive. Most of the places are within walking distances of MRT stations but one need to know the direction. This time I had a GPS with Singapore Malaysia Map. Firstly the addresses, POI’s and almost every street is so well mapped that you just give the building number, apartment floor and number, locality and GPS guides you by the shortest route. Compare to my earlier visits this time (from 23 May 20101 to 29 May 2010) I could able to save lot of time and energy and could visit 30-40% more places compare to my earlier visits, and the best part is we did not had to hire a taxi even once. Rather my family was surprise how I was able to move so confidently this time and always first time right without asking anyone. Yes people say Singapore one does not need a GPS. But let me tell you one has so many things to do in the country and having a GPS on your mobile or pocket PDA is a boom in Singapore. Time Energy and money it saves you is worth the small investment. I am user of GPS for past few years now.

C.R.Nanda

O R Tambo airport in Johannesburg seems harmless enough, like any airport it was long, full of aluminium and had a few extremely large works of art along the walkways in an attempt to spruce up the place. My family and I, however had been looking at none of this. After hearing about the safety and security situation in city, my mother as her usual paranoid self kept my brother and i under a hawkeye and a whip, even though the only things to be afraid of in an airport is the hand dryer not working and the automatic doors not opening.

Nevertheless, us three cowering Indians got into our car and sat down for a while, taking it all in. Now most GPS systems can only acquire their satellite once they are out of a garage, so my father started the rental car after much gasping at the 50,000 km on it and tried to follow the signboards and get us somewhere onto a highway. Not very successful, and soon enough, my family, like all families, started to bicker.

“ Oh my god we’re lost, I hope nobody robs us.” Hyperventilated, my Mother.
“ You are too far on the shoulder Ramesh.” My grandfather reprimanded.
“ Oh my god, we’re going to die” squealed my little brother.

My Dad sat quietly, absorbing the attacks, grimacing or holding a fart in i couldn’t tell, while my entire focus was on the 2.5’’ screen in front of me. Please acquire, please acquire i prayed while my mom had pulled out a map and was attempting to place our location. Until a electronic voice spoke “Turn left in 400 metres then continue 11 kilometres to next turn” And soon enough, my extremely dis-functional family landed their dis-functional bodies in Kruger National Park without so much as a wrong turn.

Nityn Bulchandani

How SatGuide helped my sister catch her flight

Last year my sister was in Delhi to catch an international flight to Singapore and I took her in my car to IGI airport. I had driven to the airport dozens of times and knew the way like the back of my hand. As soon as we hit the NH-8 highway leading to the airport we saw a massive traffic jam loom up in front of us till where the eye could see. Fortunately I had the presence of mind to immediately exit the main road into a colony road just before hitting the traffic jam. I would never have done this if I did not have my SatGuide GPS device with me because I had no idea which colony I was entering. I switched on the device and set IGI airport as the destination. It calculated the route, naturally taking me back via NH-8. I then used one of the very useful features of the SatGuide GPS – I marked NH-8 as a road to avoid. The device took about 10 seconds to recalculate an alternate route that took me though small roads of the many colonies and eventually to the airport road itself all within 20 minutes. There were headlines the next day talking of massive traffic jams in Delhi the previous night because it had been an auspicious day with over 20,000 marriages. Many had missed their flights and even pilots had been delayed. My sister had reached in time, thanks to the SatGuide GPS. I now always carry the device with me even if I am travelling through areas I think I know well, because one never know when one may have to take an alternative unknown road.

Dr. Karanvir Singh, New Delhi

Driving is in itself a stressful experience within the city. Besides the roads within parts of Bangalore are narrow and with plenty of roads that end in a dead end. The only way you know it’s a dead end is you travel on the road till it ends. Then of course one would need to make a U-turn, which is not always very easy because its pretty tight.

With the congestions on Bangalore’s main roads and a “rush hour” going on for the whole day, the Satnav GPS, can be a time and stress saver. Sometimes one can easily cut down commuting time by half when using alternative side roads, avoiding the dead ends; unless the Corporation dug it up or a utility truck is parked on it.

A.Vijay Simha

I have been an avid user of technology, one of them being the GPS. I am a petroleum geologist and as part of my profession I have to travel to rarely charted areas on the globe in the quest to find oil and gas to satisfy a part of mans requirement for energy. This time I was in the jungles of Africa, particularly Nigeria, I was the Technical quality assurance Lead for seismic surveys overseeing the contractor do their job. The overgrowth in Nigeria is so tall and re-growth so rapid that the cuts meant for the four-wheel-drive almost merged with the surroundings and made our survey tracks almost impossible to find. The huge trees and grasses don’t help with the reception of satellite signals.

We were driving with the local guide who helped make the tracks originally, the contractors had their own men with GPS, but as we were driving I sensed we had moved away from our seismic track into the adjacent block. I have a Garmin CSX-60 GPS in which I had input our planned seismic tracks. I asked the team to stop and relocate, but the contractors could not agree among themselves where we were.

A GPS is a not an equipment for stationary use, so I complimented it with a magnetic compass and got into the direction of movement of our vehicles, redirected my GPS, moved in the same direction , got a fix on my GPS adjusting the zoom in and out and got my exact fix. We were about a kilometer away from our actual position. Proper ingenuity and utility of the GPS helped us avoid being lost in the jungle, the tall overgrowth and coming nightfall would not have helped our morale a bit but the GPS did.

Dominic

Recently me and my family was shifted to Chennai from Kerala, I was in search of a job, after one month of waiting I got an appointment for an interview to be attend at 9am, I was so happy because it was a good company, I waken at 7 am went out with my certificate , I asked the peoples on the road, auto drivers etc..they didn’t know the street mentioned in company address , I got the email only with address of the company so I can’t call to ask for the exact address, I was so sad and called back to my wife what to do, she told don’t panic ask the people that’s only way, for 20 minutes i lost my hope , wife called back and told to check with SatGuide in my mobile which is installed, oh ya I searched the selvi street in Chennai , I got the way!. I went back home to take the SatGuide gps receiver because my mobile don’t have GPS, I got exact way it was 20 km from home , I reached before 9 am thank u ‘SATGUIDE’ .if that was not with me!, and also got the job thanks a lot to SatGuide “every traveler’s should own this”

Rijeesh.R, Chennai

This is my actual story of using your SatGuide maps. I am the trainer and I travel across the country for imparting the programs and also work with in the fields with the participants as a part of the on the job training. The FACT goes like this:- “ On 12th Dec 2008, I was travelling from MOGA to AMRITSAR by car. Normally my executive will be receiving in the city at a known location. But this time it was around 11.00 PM by the time I reached Amritsar and my executive has switched off his mobile. This is the first time I am reaching the place. I have no other information except the name of the hotel KHYBER. I was little worried for some time and suddenly I realized that I have SATGUIDE with me in my ASUS P565 handset. Then I activated the map and found the hotel khyber in the map and set the same as my destination. Now I was relaxed and gave the directions to my driver. Amritsar was full of Circle Junctions with 4-5 roads joining in each junction. But for SatGuide navigation it would have been very difficult for me.

It was about just 20 meters to reach the destination after a left turn. As the driver was taking a left turn in a busy night life Crystal Chowk , a COP came and stopped the vehicle and pulled the keys from the cab and seized the driving license from the driver. It was around 11.45 PM and the driver was really afraid of the Punjab police. After discussing with the cops, I understood that just 100 meters before there was a “ONE WAY” sign there and we were travelling in the “no entry” which our SATGUIDE MAPS did not inform us. Then I showed the navigation system to the traffic cop and told him that it was not our mistake and it was the mistake of the MAP OF SATGUIDE which guided us in the wrong direction. He was amazed to see the navigation for the first time. He just cooled down and took a ride with us in the car for a short distance to see the actual navigation system. After the ride he gave us back the drivers license and the vehicle keys, became a good friend of mine and did not take any bribe. This is just because of the ‘SATGUIDE NAVIGATION’. This gave me confidence and from them I started trusting SATGUIDE for all my destination requirements.”

K.Murali Krishna, Sr.Manager Training, Coromandel Training Academy

I had an experience with GPS which I cannot forget. I was returning back my in-laws place. I had my brother in law who stayed at a place in Pune calld Kondhwa.I never knew about that place but was confident as I had my cell phone ASUS P527.This had a place programmed which was in Kondhwa.I confirmed from my brother in law and that was a landmark which was close to his place. So I just followed what GPS device said and finally reached the destination which we were looking for. We all really became Fan of GPS devices and were really thankful to ASUS and SatGuide for giving us such a wonderful device that can literally find out any place anywhere.

One more story which I would like to share is for when I was travelling along with my relative's place in Mumbai. We know Mumbai is so vast place but could just remember some landmarks.I then asked my mobile for this and guess what it gave me that landmark and then voice enabled options gave me a way like a friend who shows us the right path. We as a family are really very impressed with this amazing technology. Cheers to such a wonderful technology called GPS.

Ajmal Shaikh

I was amazed with GPS devices several years back in US, while I was driving. It used to guide me every nook and corner of the US. However I was looking for the devices which can help me do the same in India. Recently Indian companies started mapping India. I am quite happy to use these devices in India. These devices enable one to reach destination in optimal time. Recently I the GPS device guided me to Lalbaugh , Bangalore in a shortcut. I have been using long route for the past 10 years. It was indeed pleasure using new route. It is like rediscovering your own city with new eyes.

Being bicycle enthusiast, I have been using a GPS enabled bicycle computer always. It guides me and suggests what speed, heart rate etc., Again there is no need to worry about route. I did GPS enabled bicycle adventure trips several times. Exploring hills of Nilgiris, Yercaud , Hoggnekal (http://picasaweb.google.com/babu.rajagopalan/BikingTripHosurBangaloreToHoggenakkal#) is bliss with GPS.

Tour Nilgiris (http://tourofnilgiris.com/) is a 910 km bicycle ride, which I have participated twice. During the December I did this 8 day bicycle ride with a GPS enabled bicycle computer. I managed to plan my bicycle strategy with GPS effectively. GPS was providing turn-by-turn instructions through-out the trip. It was amazing that the GPS instructing a steep climb ahead. I managed to record my complete log of the bicycle ride. I can play this again and recollect nostalgic memories now back again and anytime.

Attending marriages in unknown convention center or visiting friends in other part of the city is a nightmare. With family members packed in car, It is quite risky to stop car in wee hours. Now with GPS device, I can reach home anytime, just with a push of button. Actually GPS can make one to drive car safely without having to worry about your route. Just follow instructions.

Rajagopalan Babu

Hi, it makes me feel very happy to write about my experience with SatGuide. Since it is in my mobile device, it is always with me without fail. It is my all day companion; rather I would define it as my all day and all night kind of a guide, which provides restless guidance and that too without any charges or fees. It is a very recent incident, I went to Jaipur to get an admission for my nephew on 12th June 2010, we all were new to the road network while the connecting and approaching roads were the most horrible and confusing. Everyone gets feared when we had to decide upon which to choose…? Everytime it happens to a big question and most of the time the decisions were about to be taken on the assumptions of the local person or self-assumption. But I strictly trusted upon my SatGuide and followed it throughout the way. The accuracy level is so precise that you never need to worry about. You wish for anything relevant and SatGuide will guide you to there. I found a very good hotel in Jaipur named ‘Royal Hut’ through my SatGuide only and the food was absolutely delicious. At last but not the least, I feel very much proud and secured with my SatGuide. It helped me a lot while driving thru the city life. You do not need to open the window glass in such 48 degree of temperature, just set your destination and Get…Set…Go…

Rajen Purohit

I am a user of Satguide since 2007. As I started using Satguide more often, I became an addict ! I want to narrate an incident which was amusing (now after I look back !) That was a customer call. I had checked the location of customer's office using Satguide. Fixed my Mio P350 in car and started driving. After driving for almost 20Km, I was going thru very familiar road and known places. I was wondering myself why I had not seen this customer's office even though I had travelled by this road many times. I knew that Satguide can not go wrong. Finally I reached the destination. That was the same place which I had visited previous day to meet another customer.

I was blaming myself why I did not fix that appointment previous day itself so that I would have finished meeting both customers on same day. I would have saved some time, fuel... etc ! I started looking for the name board for the office. I did not find any ! My confidence with Satguide was still strong. I knew that I am in right location. I started asking people around for the location of office. They were not of much help ! I again got into car and started driving....searching for the office. I knew that it was there close to that location and went round and round to find no clues of that office ! It was then, I decided to verify the POI with Satguide. To my surprise, I found that I was 6Km away from the office which I was supposed to visit ! I was shocked ... for a moment I lost confidence in Satguide. Decided to debug that mistake later.

Used Satguide again and reached the destination. Had meeting with customer. After I returned, my first task was to find out what happened to my Satguide. Why did it let me down...? Investigation was completed ! Previous day when I visited a customer, I had set that location in Favorite. Next day I had to visit another customer. I indeed located it in Satguide but failed to store it in Favorite. When I started driving I just recalled previous POI which was in Favorite and landed in a location where I visited previous day !!....

R.S.Madhava Murthy

I remembered reading about India's first navigation software "SATGUIDE", by Satnav Technologies, and was skeptical about its functionality, customer service, more so the cost (human nature!)..I wanted to be one of the first few to use it,being a gizmo freak, n having used similar thing abroad must admit, when I did get Satguide, about three years back, till date, its been one gadget that's become an integral part of my existence. Its proved to be my travel buddy, my navigator time and again,since I'm a consulting dentist and avid traveler, asking for directions all the time is not what we "Men normally like to do", even though we are unsure! I too fall in same category, but thanks to post Satguide Era, those embarrassing days are gone forever cite an instance, me and my wife, once decided to go to a new destination (Prakruti Farms resort), lesser frequented place during weekdays(just the way we like!), somewhere near Karjat, about 170 odd kms from Mumbai. After an hour drive, we realized we had goofed up on some diversion, and that was enough reason for my wife(normally she doesn't need one) to start a fight, but thanks to the Satguide, my Savior ( lady knight in shining armour), sweet lady's voice prompts (though at that instance any lady's voice would have been sweeter!) which guided me by rerouting and calculation, and helped me reach the Resort in one piece and peace. Satguide with its ease of use, one time minimal cost, free upgrades, addition of millions of POI, chance to save favorite has made my life so much more easier.. For me Satguide is a "Friend, Navigator n Guide", akin to a friend, philosopher n guide...Thank you everyone at Satnav Technologies for this value addition to our lives..

Dr Kaushal Shah

Hi!! My name is Reeve Luiz and I am an MBA Student in Mumbai, India. I am a total gadget freak and have been using the latest technology every opportunity I can afford to! My first GPS enabled device was the HTC TyTn II smart-phone and I used its GPS service extensively. Right from mapping my way-points, to charting my distance covered for accurate fuel usage as well as for navigation while touring on my bike (I am an avid bike lover as well!). The best thing about a GPS enabled device is that It gives you accurate stats such as speed/heading/altitude etc.

I recently graduated to a more powerful device, a Viliv S5(which I won in a contest run on a website in the states :D), which is a pocket computer and much more powerful than the previous smart-phone. Now I could use any mapping software as well make use of USB based internet dongles which turned out to be much cheaper than using a GPRS connection. I also built a custom dock for using it on my bike when I went touring around the country with friends.

While I was in Pune for my internship, I used to frequently go on trips with my friends there to Mahabaleshwar, matheran, lonavala, mumbai and Goa in trips on my bike. Since most of them weren't from either mumbai nor pune, most didn't know the roads to all these places, same as me! As a result, I was always in the lead(with full helmet and riding gear; safety first!) thanks to the entire route being mapped out on the GPS system. We even did trips in the rains, this time ensuring the device was well protected in a ziplock bag and in the hands of the person behind me. One of my most memorable trips was the one which we had planned to Dandeli, on the borders of Karnataka! After a good amount of research, we found out that the roads were really good and suited for a bike ride of close to 400 odd kilometres!! We set off at around 5 in the morning without any road maps in our hands and as usual, I was in the lead with my trusty Viliv! On the way we decided length be damned, and made a detour for the sandy beaches of Goa. Thanks to the navigation system, we were easily able to find our way around, from Anjuna beach to Varca where my friends relatives stayed. After a day of exploring Goa, we set off on the alternative route to Dandeli and had a blast in the Wildlife Sanctuary located there!

Thanks to my Viliv I had one of the most memorable trips ever! Unfortunately it doesn't work now thanks to the hard drive failing. If I win, the first thing I will do is get a better navigation system, which is finger friendly, and discover more of this beautiful country!

Reeve Luiz

It has been said many time before that the SatGuide products and services are truly market leaders by a margin. One such personal experience I had was during my last visit to England. I was staying in greater london area in Surrey. After a very hectic day, fighting against the bilogical clock, I returned to hotel by 8pm. I did not have a car and was in no mood to walk a distance. Out comes my friend, Satnav device with Europe maps loaded. I browsed for the nearest Indian restaurants and lo behold! I could not have asked for more. Switched the device to the pedestrian mode and the device guided me to a 'vegetaria restaurant' at 650 yds from my hotel. I treated myself to a yummy masala dosa and organic falafel in pita bread with delicious vegetables, in a remote area in greater london.

No wonder, I cannot imagine me moving out of home without my best friend, my satguide device!

Bhavesh

Having recently been recruited to India and suddenly finding myself in the middle of the huge city of Bangalore , it soon became apparent that the best way to survive the place is to get out at weekends. Problem number one arises when you realize just how early you need to depart to clear the city in a reasonable time, and problem number two is finding your destination. There is no shortage of places to visit and the chosen mode of transport is India’s own iconic Enfield. Having cleared most of the mental problems it become apparent that maps aren’t quite what I have been used to and road signs are not always in English. No SatNavs are yet available for a bike and Bluetooth devices don’t work with a blackberry so the only option left is GoogleMaps, and this entails writing the route and then stopping when you feel lost. So off I go to Yelagiri hills and it takes on the proportions of a magical mystery tour! Non-existent roads and detours through every small village, obviously the maps used by Google are either old or just calculate the most direct route regardless of the type of road, when I finally got there the trip was justified. On the next trip to Hogenakkel falls, I actually gave up concerned about battery life on my phone and the risk of becoming lost after dark. I have made some wonderful trips and met some amazingly friendly people but can’t wait for a bike-friendly SatNan! Regards,

Kevin Oldfield

Last December 2009 my first driving was India. I order my Satguide by internet.
I could go anywhere in Goa. After sometime I started adding favorites to location of interest.
People has told me you could drive anywhere in the world but not in India. I rented a car without driver.
I and my family had a great time. I could come back at my stay even when it was dark.
I drove around Panaji for about a month. My friends want also this to buy the Satguide .

Pradiep Rajaram, Anurahda Group

I am using Satguide on my Asus mobile phone. I bought my phone last year June in Mumbai but never used Satguide which came built in phone. But when I shifted to Bangalore in April this year it has been a great help to me. Since I am new to this city and does not know roads it was of great help. I have a driver but he only knows south and south east of Bangalore but when we have to towards city or Central Bangalore, he is not very well aware of the roads. For instance three weeks back I had to visit to “Hotel Lalit Ashok” high grounds for the exhibition and satguide helped me in reaching there in exact time without wasting any time and I did not have to ask anybody on road as well. From there I had to go to Chickpet, again a new place, new name, Satguide again helped me reaching there in time.

I am blessed having it on my phone.

Stuti Datanwala

I am happy to say how this little wonder helped me when I visited Chennai few months back. I had been to Chennai for some personal work along with my family and reached the destination in the night around 1.30am. The highway was deserted and not one was around to ask for help to reach my hotel where I booked room to stay.

I took a chance to see if this little wonder help us. So, I feed the hotel name in POI and to our luck it started showing the directions from Poonamalli High Road. I Just blindly followed the path shown by this devise. And after some time it said I am just in front of my destination !!!. In the dark I was not able to see the Hotel but when I peeped out of the window of my car, I could see the Hotel right in front of me...

I now made this devise part of my travel. I never leave house without this little wonder !!!!

T. V. Narasimhan, (Nat), Bangalore

I am Mulla Abbas Alubhai happy to say you that I am the lucky person who get SatGuide with Asus P527.

Once I went to my uncle's Town when I never go before it because They transferred their two month ago. I first time go their I have a nice SatGuide with my phone so I went without asking anybody in time.

Second time I had to go Navrangpura Ahmedabad for giving exam the way which I know was blocked by Police for some reason I haven't enough time and I don't know other sort way thank to SatGuide that day help for showing me shortest way and save the time and money and also reach in time and passed exam and selected for the job. I really if not have SatGuide that day not reach in time for exam and not selected for job.

Mulla Abbas