NAVMAN F20 satnav

judosteffer · 10 February 2007 at 5:21PM

Hooray! worked out how to get it for about £110.

Check your local Dixons or PC World has it in stock. check the price they will sell it to you at.

e.g. PC World is £124.80 at the mo.
Dixons is £122.55

Check there is a comet within 10 miles

Print out comets price match policy - e.g. they will match the price but will also BEAT it by 10%

See Here

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/content.do?breadcrumb=no&categoryId=13&includeUrl=/comet/ev2/content/services/html/pricing.htm&pageName=Services_pricing&knowledge=no

Comet should then sell to you at the PC world or dixons price
but 10% off e.g. £110.

Let me know how you get on - I managed it at Comet, Longwell Green, Bristol, and there is a pc world at Bath within 10 miles that had it in stock.

Flange · 10 February 2007 at 8:30PM

Derek_Duval wrote:

I have read lots of negative reviews on TMC reception which has put me off buying a T1 module, & at the moment I am using tomtom traffic over GPRS. I would buy one of these if I was sure I'd always get a good reception. Have you had any reception difficulties?

I have not used the T1 exhaustively, but I have never had a reception problem - as previously mentioned it automatically tunes in to local fm stations - so you get relevant up-to date traffic / weather info.
Hope this helps a few people make up their minds - and don't foget - once you've bought this you will NEVER need to pay for any traffic updates (unlike some other units)

CP

portal · 10 February 2007 at 8:39PM

In my office we've just bought an F20 (paid £126), and also a Medion Go Pal 210 (paid £99).

By comparison, the Medion is total pants.

The F20 whips it's butt in every comparison, and the extra 20quid or so is well worth it.

My brother has a top-end £400 Tomtom (the post one with the huge HDD in it etc). This is a proper sexy bit of kit, but 99% of the time it does the same job at the F20.

If you're looking for a Satnav just to get you from A to B, then buy the F20. Even the screen looks great!

Derek_Duval · 11 February 2007 at 9:02AM

judosteffer wrote:

Hooray! worked out how to get it for about £110.

Check your local Dixons or PC World has it in stock. check the price they will sell it to you at.

e.g. PC World is £124.80 at the mo.
Dixons is £122.55

Check there is a comet within 10 miles

Print out comets price match policy - e.g. they will match the price but will also BEAT it by 10%

See Here

http://www.comet.co.uk/cometbrowse/content.do?breadcrumb=no&categoryId=13&includeUrl=/comet/ev2/content/services/html/pricing.htm&pageName=Services_pricing&knowledge=no

Comet should then sell to you at the PC world or dixons price
but 10% off e.g. £110.

Let me know how you get on - I managed it at Comet, Longwell Green, Bristol, and there is a pc world at Bath within 10 miles that had it in stock.

We won’t just match the price – we’ll beat it by an extra 10% of the DIFFERENCE. (not the total price)

So Comet sell for £149.99, Dixons £122.55, giving a price DIFFERENCE of £27.44. 10% of that is £2.74, so comet will sell for £119.81.

RedOnRed · 11 February 2007 at 11:14AM

Has anyone else NOT been able to add a house number when they do a postcode search? Has it also randomly assigned a house number for your home address which you then can't change?

Has anyone else found the mapping to be cluttered and unclear?

Has anyone else found the advice in the manual to download updates nonsensical when they don't supply a cable in the box for it?

I can't believe the above was unique to me, either that or everyone else is just living with it.

I'm using a Garmin Streetpilot i3 as a benchmark which made the F20 seem very disappointing. Especially as the i3s quite a bit cheaper.

colin79666 · 11 February 2007 at 4:55PM

Has anyone else NOT been able to add a house number when they do a postcode search? Has it also randomly assigned a house number for your home address which you then can't change?
yes but that's partly down to the fact that gps is only accurate to about 10m. You can always put the street address in then enter a number anyway!
Has anyone else found the mapping to be cluttered and unclear?
Looks fine to me
Has anyone else found the advice in the manual to download updates nonsensical when they don't supply a cable in the box for it?
Not really - all the gps manufactures are at the option extra game

RedOnRed · 11 February 2007 at 5:01PM

[QUOTE=30111987Has anyone else found the advice in the manual to download updates nonsensical when they don't supply a cable in the box for it?
Not really - all the gps manufactures are at the option extra game[/QUOTE]

Garmin supply a cable.

colin79666 · 11 February 2007 at 7:47PM

RedOnRed wrote:

Garmin supply a cable.

indeed, but the i3 also costs more (based on rrp), has no touch screen, has no built in rechargeable battery and a poor antenna

Its a matter of personal preference. Ultimately me the Navman was the better buy for me.

RedOnRed · 11 February 2007 at 7:57PM

30111987 wrote:

indeed, but the i3 also costs more (based on rrp), has no touch screen, has no built in rechargeable battery and a poor antenna

Its a matter of personal preference. Ultimately me the Navman was the better buy for me.

What makes you think it's got a poor antenna? Have you tried it? I haven't had any problems with it at all.

Additionally, disregarding RRP, you can quite easily pick up an i3 for £89 at the moment.

colin79666 · 11 February 2007 at 9:19PM

RedOnRed wrote:

What makes you think it's got a poor antenna? Have you tried it? I haven't had any problems with it at all.

Additionally, disregarding RRP, you can quite easily pick up an i3 for £89 at the moment.

I have tried both systems in the same car, same place
F20 (mine) found 4 satellites in under a minute. i3 (mates) took almost 5 minutes and was not as accurate. It then dropped the signal. Perhaps this was a one off dud.

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