garmin streetpilot i3 - where to buy ?

italiastar

bennnneb wrote:

can you get european maps for this system? and if so where from?

That's the only problem with this unit - theres only one place to get the maps and their £90 EACH country - otherwise it is a truely fantastic unit - much much better than the Navman icn 530 I've just bought.

this is the reply I got from Garmin - These will be priced at a RRP of £90.08. They are hopefully going to be
available early this month towards March; however we do not have a set
release date at this time although it should be soon.

Online dealers such as https://www.gpsw.co.uk have them listed on their site
awaiting stock.

italiastar

Roger_Rampant wrote:

Some continental maps are included with it as standard, which "European" countries are you particularly interested in?

The only continental map provided is northern France - not as far as Paris, Brittany and Normandy.

Roger_Rampant

The only continental map provided is northern France - not as far as Paris, Brittany and Normandy

When I go into the menu and select address, it asks whether the address is in Belgium, Channel Islands, England, France, Ireland, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland or Wales (all of which are European countries, if I'm not mistaken)

So far I have only actually used it for addresses in England and Yvetot in Northern France, so what you say may be correct...

greyster

anyway to get rid of that screen ... its annoying as I've use it only for England?

italiastar

Roger_Rampant wrote:

When I go into the menu and select address, it asks whether the address is in Belgium, Channel Islands, England, France, Ireland, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland or Wales (all of which are European countries, if I'm not mistaken)

So far I have only actually used it for addresses in England and Yvetot in Northern France, so what you say may be correct...

Roger,

Yes it does show all these other countries, but won't take you there - not even major roads as some systems do - eg try Paris, Rome, Milan, Bruge etc etc. It still is a superb unit at any price.

italiastar

greyster wrote:

anyway to get rid of that screen ... its annoying as I've use it only for England?

Sorry have I missed something here ??

Roger_Rampant

They don't want to have to pick from a long list of countries, they want it to automatically default to England when keying a destination address in. Is there any way of making it automatically default to England?

greyster

italiastar wrote:

Sorry have I missed something here ??

lol ... i cant believe i typed that, I was tired. I meant to say - is there any way of removing the country option screen (the one you see before inputing the postcode) .... as I only use it in England.

Thanks.

Jamp

Now £99 on the Comet website, just a couple of days after I ordered one at £129 :rolleyes: Will give 'em a ring when it arrives and see if they'll refund the difference but if not I guess I can return it (14 days for distance selling..?) and buy another at the new price

greyster

you might want to post that on the grabbit forum .... lots of people are after them for £99.