Which GPS Sat-Nav do you use?

BlueCruiser · Post by **BlueCruiser** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:43 am

Thinking of getting one myself...welcome any recommendations!

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:59 am

NAV-MAN 610ICN no problems, Came with UK maps, I also have the NZ maps

Â£254 tax free at heathrow.

great screen, fast loads, does all sorts of stuff.

ReVolvoLution · Post by **ReVolvoLution** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:32 pm

No offence but I wouldnt piss on any of them if they were on fire!!! You've got more change of finding your required UK location by licking your finger and holding it in the air

Spend Â£6 on a decent road map and wave the rest of your Â£250 at lost motorist and laugh quietly to yourself

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:59 pm

tomtom are good....

Father has a go 300...seems very capable.

I just use autoroute on a laptom with a usb gps. Works a charm.

Murf · Post by **Murf** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 8:45 pm

I use tom tom as well, its excellent!
Cost:
PDA, free as i had it already and a mate gave it to me!
GPS bluetooth dongle, Â£50
TT software, free *cough* backup copy.

not bad considering i use it all day everyday for work and i use it in my MR2 as well cos the speedo is in Km/H.
Ive only been lost twice since i got it set up, nearly a year ago and both those occasions were caused by me typing in the wrong post code!!

Website · Post by **coyote1980** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 3:59 pm

TomTom here on a PDA with a bluetooth GPS receiver, works fine

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:39 pm

I will soon be converting to a TomTom possibly a Go 500 V2. Couldnâ€™t be without a satnav on long journeys itâ€™s the best thing I have ever bought for the car. Never taken me the wrong way

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welsh-dragon · Post by **welsh-dragon** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 6:46 pm

Tomtom 5 is definitely the best software. Currently runing it on a Mitac 201 (replacement model for 168).
Excellent combination and very portable for walking as well for the fitter people as an option!

Matthew Brennan · Post by **Matthew Brennan** » Mon Feb 20, 2006 8:23 pm

I hear Acer make a really good PDA with a GPS attachment, its called the N35 or N30. Its a good satnav and its a full pocket pc, play yer mp3's and watch your faviroute vids connect to the interweb to retrieve your electronic mail. Buy a big SD card for it for more storage.

http://www.acer.co.uk Anyone gonna sell me a full leather interior yet?

martinholmesuk · Post by **martinholmesuk** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 12:34 pm

I updated my NAVMAN software and now ... ! :rofl:

Bakke · Post by **Bakke** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:01 pm

Same here. Tomtom 5 on qtek PDA/GSM with Bluetooth receiver. Works like a charm

JeanPete · Post by **JeanPete** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 8:31 am

Tomtom Mobile 5.21 on Orange SPV C500 (or Qtek 8010 or i-Mate SP3) with Royaltek RBT1000 BT receiver. Some crashes, but very usefull and not too expensive !

Breeze · Post by **Breeze** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:06 pm

get a tom tom, dead easy to use. on the 500 and 700 you can use them as a bluetooth handsfree kit, and you can download speed camera locations for free. only drawback is that they are a bit big.

best prices on:

http://www.find-uk-deals.co.uk/sat_nav.htm

free speed camera locations download:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/uksafetycameras.php

or you could just download the tom-tom software for your hone or PDA, thats a cheaper way of doing it!.

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:09 pm

Just bought my Go 500 yesterday. Much easer to use than my other one just plug and play

bbf · Post by **bbf** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:07 pm

a925 with smartcomGPS software. not realy a turn-by-turn, but can drive you on predefined route in OziExplorer. more like a map position usage.
No realy usefull map for Slovenia on market but garmin=expencive.

http://naveza.mine.nu/a925/slike/

dragon · Post by **dragon** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:04 am

Well, I wanted a PDA, so for Â£120 I got myself a XDA2 PDA/Phone, which came preinstalled with TomTom, all UK and Euro maps, POIPlace (to show things like speed cameras, Petrol stations and pretty much anything I download for it to tell me about), and a bluetooth ultra sensitive GPS antenna (even works in the glove box!)

When the project car gets on the road, it'll still be using an in-built laptop and using "Navigator" as it's software.

The beauty of the XDA2 is that because it's a phone, I can browse the web in the car too, or download new POI on the fly...

catgroom · Post by **catgroom** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:34 pm

POI!???

What,pornography of interest???

Big Brother · Post by **Big Brother** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 4:23 pm

Points of interest Groomus

Brasco · Post by **Brasco** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:13 pm

JohnTurbo wrote:I just use autoroute on a laptom with a usb gps. Works a charm.

I can vouch for that, it's like some sort of gyroscopic charm that keeps going round and round until it tries to take you up a one way street the wrong way but luckily chance upon Lee who actually knows the way to Lincoln Cathedral...

JohnTurbo · Post by **JohnTurbo** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:33 pm

Hey we were going round and round before the GPS even got turned on!!