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Sat Nav: advice, opinions, recommendations

I got a tomtom go 710 about 6 weeks ago, it's fab, really fast to re-calculate route changes, since having it it has got me out of trouble loads of times, no more sitting in queues of traffic for me

I got mine from total pda, they were the cheapest around and also sell re-con ones
 
i have tom tom rider for my bike its great especially for going places you have never been before. tom tom for me.
 
Looks like the TomTom 1 will be ideal as an entry level satnav (the person it's for doesn't drive outside the UK). It's around £170 although going to look around to see if I can bring that price down a bit...
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Can you get one you can put in your pocket instead of an A-Z ?

I would like that for cycling and walking. Do you get ones that understand cycle routes and routes on foot?
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they do one on a Nokia phone -not sure about on foot though
 
here's a question about tom tom...

I have navigator 6 on my treo 650..its on my 2 gig sd card and works great

but why does it restrict the number of Favourites to five or so...I'm not asking it to store the damn routes, just a location..and its got acres of space on the card


any ideas?
 
woohoo! got my tom tom for my birthday and thinking about buying the safety camera update thingy...but it says it is a one year subscription...does that mean that the feature will stop working after a year and i will have to pay again?
 
I don't see how a downloaded set of "Points of Interest" (which is all the speed camera locations are) can be made to "stop working".

Once you have downloaded them to the Tomtom, they will stay there til you take em off.

However, you are paying the subscription for the updates. So if you don't pay, your database of camera locations will gradually become out of date as cameras are added and moved.

A bit like paid-for antivirus programmes on your PC. If you don't pay the annual subs, you can't get the updates to keep them recognising all the new viruses, so the programme slowly becomes less effective.

Giles..
 
i have emailed the tomtom people too so they will hopefully clarify everything but what you just said makes a lot more sense...thanks! :)
 
Random One said:
i have emailed the tomtom people too so they will hopefully clarify everything but what you just said makes a lot more sense...thanks! :)
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I might be wrong - I have one of the original Tomtom Go units, and you just download "Points of Interest" and then set it to bleep when you get near one.

Maybe the newer ones have a feature that will make it "expire" the camera locations, but I doubt it. For a start, you can set TomTom's date yourself, so you *could* just set it back, so it never got to its "expiry date"!

Giles..
 
thedyslexic1 said:
:D

Solder cable to the car ignition tuk cable up back of dash. Then not going to have traling cable to the ciggar lighter.
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Also not going to have transformer built into the cigar-plug adapter? So you'll be introducing 12volts DC direct to your Satnav... smells expensive :p
 
Are they worth it?

I just look in the relevant A-Z and remember where I am going.

Mind you I do seem to have a much better sense of direction than all my friends.
 
Errol's son said:
Are they worth it?

I just look in the relevant A-Z and remember where I am going.

Mind you I do seem to have a much better sense of direction than all my friends.
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I got one as a present and it's been a godsend, but I do a lot of field service work and often have to attend sites at towns/cities that are alien to me. If you don't get about much then maybe not needed.
 
Errol's son said:
Are they worth it?

I just look in the relevant A-Z and remember where I am going.

Mind you I do seem to have a much better sense of direction than all my friends.
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i can usually get by with an AtoZ but it not always convenient to be looking into it while driving long distances/pulling over every so often so the sat nav is good for that. Also it is much better than having someone (who shall remain unnamed!) in the car giving directions and being completely useless at it:)
 
Random One said:
i can usually get by with an AtoZ but it not always convenient to be looking into it while driving long distances/pulling over every so often so the sat nav is good for that. Also it is much better than having someone (who shall remain unnamed!) in the car giving directions and being completely useless at it:)
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Bitchass!:p Note she doesn't mention that these "directions" often came in the form of her hand written scrawls. Unreadable I tell ya...and let's not get into "take the next left (said a good 30 seconds before it appears)" *watch left go by* "Er you should have taken that left":D
 
Hello all. I am looking to purchase a GPS system by the weekend and after a few weeks I am still not sure which one to get.

I have heard the Tom Toms (510, 710, 910) are good and the Garmin (660 onwards). However these are also quite expensive. I don't want to spend too much, I could be streteched to around £200.

I would like to have traffic information, re-routing, speed camera warnings and easy postcode / road name to find destination as the main features.

Anyone got any experience or advice?

Much appreciated
 
Anyone know the best Sat Nav to buy?

Hello all. I am looking to purchase a GPS system by the weekend and after a few weeks I am still not sure which one to get.

I have heard the Tom Toms (510, 710, 910) are good and the Garmin (660 onwards). However these are also quite expensive. I don't want to spend too much, I could be streteched to around £200.

I would like to have traffic information, re-routing, speed camera warnings and easy postcode / road name to find destination as the main features.

Anyone got any experience or advice?

Much appreciated
 
I have two satnav systems - a work supllied Garmin i3 and my own nokia smartphone running tomtom5. The garmin is a peice of shit, takes 10 minutes to find a satellite and then sends you on the most divvy route possible. Its rubbish in London but seems to work ok in the sticks. It does come with euro maps though which makes it handy when you're trying to find the velodrome in Roubaix.

The tomtom is excellent, full postcode search and a gatso database that you can update yourself with MS Excel. Like I say it runs on a phone with a bluetooth GPS receiver, so if price is a consideration this might be the answer - its not as neat as a 1 box solution though and you do end up having 2 chargers in the car all the time. The software itself you can pick oup on an mmc card on ebay for very little.
 
Call me old fashioned, but why do people spend hundreds of pounds on these things, when an atlas costs a couple of quid, and there are millions of road signs? :confused:
 
because they're considerably easier to use when driving than an atlas, you don't have to keep stopping to read it. If you hit a jam just turn off and let it reroute you. Also, for those of us of a certain age, you don't need to faff with glasses to read it- I can't drive with them on or read an atlas without them.

My year old version of Tomtom is acceptable, previous versions were a bit mickey mouse. Never used anything else except the free Nokia one which is a bit weird but I haven't really got used to it yet.
 
There's already a thread on this. Most folks rate Tom Tom. You can also pick up cheapo PDA/GPS combos from places like Morgans in central London.
 
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