possible the cheapest gps unit ever

sco0ter

no cellophane on mine.. It did have a small Gizmondo security sticker sealing the box though

MORPH3US

More questions:

Whats this about Smart Ads? And is this Argos gizmondo a Smart Ads machine?

Does the Gizmondo have to have a smi card in it to work, or can you still use it as a GPS etc without a sim card in?

M

Mecoconuts

Anyone know if this will work with the Tomtom sat nav PDA software ?

batman_3

They had one in my local store, cellophane sealed, they refused to open it so I could see the contents & told me that it is excluded from return, so I left it. I'm happy to pay the £65 but only if it has the software. The box had addons written on it.

I have read that the software is not that fab and that it tends to reroute via town centre's but I suppose at that price you can't complain too much!

Co pilot have dropped support for this product, so if there are any problem's thay ain't gunna help or supply updated maps, but it may be possible to use maps from a normal copilot software, but i'm only speculating.

To the people who get lucky enough to get one with the sat nav software could you please supply info on what the box looked like, was it sealed, any indications on the box basically anything that would help us to pick the box with the sat nav software.

batman_3

Mecoconuts wrote:

Anyone know if this will work with the Tomtom sat nav PDA software ?

Apparently TomTom were working on some software for this but they dropped it now. The unit will only allow "signed" (basically means the unit is locked and only runs software that gizmondo have authorised) applications to run on it. This means that you cannot run any standard pocket pc software on it. Apparently someone has managed to get around this and a homebrew software scene is starting.

eilz

Is this deivce any good though for SAT NAV, I mean how many satelites can it pick up, does it takes ages to connect and is it user friendly?, can you update the gps software, what language os is it.

dc

More questions than answers.

It is referred to as a pda on some sites like CPW, and the old Argos catalogue says it is Microsoft based, but is unclear about most aspects, (except for bluetooth capability), and was the cheapest model around at the time £129.

be wary, dc

bigdec

i passed the argos extra near me and there were still 2 left

bigdec

MORPH3US wrote:

But if it doesn't show up online and text and reserve doesn't work, how the hell can ring and reserve!??!

BTW, I checked Cannock store yesterday and it said that it was no longer stocked!!!

M

if you use saynoto0870 website and put argos in to the search for alternate numbers it list a lot of the stores landline telephone numbers and you can use that for contacting the stores

haveagoade

does the copilot include europe......if not then I'm not interested