Garmin Satnav offers (merged)

Whirly

A word of warning:

While the Speed Camera POI is very useful it is *not* a complete guard against getting caught on a speed camera. Any road that has the Speed Camera warning signs can also have one of the mobile Speed Camera units on it.

For anyone who hasn't seen one, these are simply a white van with the speed camera sign in black on the side. They park up by the side of the road, open their back doors and turn on the camera. Et viola, instant, unmapped speed camera.

Get these all the time where I am - even on a road that already has more than 5 stationary cameras!

ShaunJUK

Garmins and Dyson DC07's at the cleethorpes store when i just passed through

L_Tee_2

Ok, can I just get this all clear in my mind before I purchase.

At Somerfield you can buy a PocketPC SatNav PDA for £129.99, approximately half the price you can get it elsewhere. This has been referred to as the 'Medion, the 'Mio 168' and the 'Micromaxx MDPPC150' in this thread, but I think they are all the same thing?

The PDA comes with Navigator 5.0 software, as well as Windows Mobile 2003. Even after reading the entire thread I am still not sure if it comes with European Maps, but these can be purchased from the website for £69.99.

Can someone please confirm if France maps are included in the box?

However, if you want TomTom software, this can be bought for £150 from Amazon and includes European maps.

Am I right in thinking all of the above? Thanks.

PompeySteve

The PocketPC (MDPPC150/Mio 168) comes with Great Britain and Ireland maps only.

It is a fantastic bit of kit and I heartily recommend getting one.

boatman

The Garmin warns you for every speed camera by bonging, if you are over the limit it will keep bonging.

jgjet

PompeySteve wrote:

The PocketPC (MDPPC150/Mio 168) comes with Great Britain and Ireland maps only.

It is a fantastic bit of kit and I heartily recommend getting one.

Any idea how to burn MP3's, it has software but no instructions for it, nothing in the mannual either!

Chris369

boatman wrote:

The Garmin warns you for every speed camera by bonging, if you are over the limit it will keep bonging.

Sounds good! Thanks :cool:

ShaunJUK

jgjet wrote:

Any idea how to burn MP3's, it has software but no instructions for it, nothing in the mannual either!

Just copy the mp3's onto the unit using ActiveSync or put them on an SD Card

caverncity

boatman wrote:

The Garmin warns you for every speed camera by bonging, if you are over the limit it will keep bonging.

I have the missus for that, she bongs me on the head if I go over the speed limit.

ShaunJUK

I have started a thread for those of us who have bought the PDA to discuss it rather than fill up the bargain thread

Its here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=1404469#post1404469