Navigo Sat Nav £49.99 saving £47.90

Rotwein44

Is this a bargain, dont know much about Sat Navs, WHSmiths are doing a Navigo Sat Nav at £49.99 reduced from £47.60 (49% saving!)

Has got good reviews on the website!

wept

Ebuyer are doing this one a bit cheaper and its Ok - you can run Tom Tom on it as well - instructions on the Ebuyer forum although invalidates warranty I guess.

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146672

neet87

It runs window CE too, which can easily be enabled.

betterbargains4u

neet87 wrote: »

It runs window CE too, which can easily be enabled.

How do you do this?

Comfortably_Numb

The unit is good, but the software it comes with is far from reliable. I have TomTom on mine now, and it is brilliant.

Carrie.F

betterbargains4u wrote: »

How do you do this?

Read the Navigo reviews lots of links and info.
google 'navsoon' there is a forum with loads of help.

Basically, it has a usb link and using active sync on your pc you can hack the regisitry... easy to do and easy to back-up to secure your warranty.

I think they is also a 2-key press hack on the version2 that gets you out of the basic menu back to wince.

the are loads of alternative menus and if this is the 4*3 size it is a great video player. (add a program called coreplayer)

As you can tell - i've got and hacked one.
I run tom tom v7 and igo8/miomap plus mp3 and video from a 4g sd card.

good luck.

Carrie.

tightus_wad

It's not the 4.3" one - I was tempted when in WHSmith too! Ebuyer is cheaper tho.

Woby_Tide

looking at buying the ebuyer one with fm and bluetooth included but has anyone attempted an 8gig sd card in these. I know it says 4gig is max card but people have issues due to FAT formatting so wondered if 8gig was actually possible if fomratted correctly?

Carrie.F

Woby_Tide wrote: »

looking at buying the ebuyer one with fm and bluetooth included but has anyone attempted an 8gig sd card in these. I know it says 4gig is max card but people have issues due to FAT formatting so wondered if 8gig was actually possible if fomratted correctly?

I think I saw someone using a FAT 8gb on one of the forums...
But, why would you? 4gb holds 3 choices of navigation s/w, plenty of mp3s and my films.
I keep coreplayer on the resident flash.
films are on a seperate 4g card.
seperate cards mean you don't loss it all in one go AND come the holidays my
spare card goes in the camera bag.
Memory Map is a great tool for walkers.
A note - get a fast card for your films, for best results you need to convert them. (get reading - google navigo navsoon, lookout for userids Sarah99 and Dixie)
Carrie...

Carrie.F

Also the FM transmitter needs an aerial mod to make it effective.

Carrie.

spaceman5

Rotwein44 wrote: »

Is this a bargain, dont know much about Sat Navs, WHSmiths are doing a Navigo Sat Nav at £49.99 reduced from £47.60 (49% saving!)

Has got good reviews on the website!

my maths aint brilliant but to me it looks like you are paying £2.39 more, not saving anything, i am guessing though the £47.60 should be £97.60:D, Dave