Cheap Sat Nav / PDA NEW PRICE ! (26/8/06)

phanco

No easy way to tell - just realistic price I suppose :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMTOM-NAVIGATOR-5-21-5-SOFTWARE-SD-CARD-TOM-TOM-PLUS_W0QQitemZ170011466441QQihZ007QQcategoryZ75327QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
£69.95+P&P seem reasonable

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMTOM-TOM-TOM-NAVIGATOR-5-SOFTWARE-FULL-PDA-XDA-MDA-PC_W0QQitemZ230013540520QQihZ013QQcategoryZ1498QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
£30 including full sets of maps = probably not legit.

deanos

You can get them for £10 on Ebay not originals of course but they do work

owey

deanos wrote:

You can get them for £10 on Ebay not originals of course but they do work

deanos, sent you a PM help needed with pocket Loox.

PM

woops wrong thread... sorry...

deanos

UPDATE 26 August 06

Now available at Pixmania without the Navigon software for £132 !

Direct Link

Says includes french software , i presume windows is in french ?? not sure if you can make it English ??

andrew502

That's a really good price now. Anyone know if you can use a USB hard drive (laptop one in a usb ecnlosure) with one of these? I know they have USB host port but was just wondering if they would supply enought voltage.

yebaws

andrew502 wrote:

That's a really good price now. Anyone know if you can use a USB hard drive (laptop one in a usb ecnlosure) with one of these? I know they have USB host port but was just wondering if they would supply enought voltage.

You can connect the pda to your pc with a USB socket, but you can't plug a USB device - ie your HD - into the PDA. There's no usb port, presumably because a PDA just wouldn't have the power to run many USB devices.

yebaws

deanos wrote:

UPDATE 26 August 06

Now available at Pixmania without the Navigon software for £132 !

Direct Link

Says includes french software , i presume windows is in french ?? not sure if you can make it English ??

My version came with English as the default language for the OS (Microsoft Pocket PC) and I can change it to French without needing a disc, so presumably it would mork the other way. But there's more software than just the OS, and this could be in French. If it could all be changed to English then I don't know why they would say that the software was French..

mcwang

yebaws wrote:

You can connect the pda to your pc with a USB socket, but you can't plug a USB device - ie your HD - into the PDA. There's no usb port, presumably because a PDA just wouldn't have the power to run many USB devices.

actually you can attach a usb device (e.g. usb memory) to LOOX N500 if you have a specific usb host cable

yebaws

andrew502 wrote:

That's a really good price now. Anyone know if you can use a USB hard drive (laptop one in a usb ecnlosure) with one of these? I know they have USB host port but was just wondering if they would supply enought voltage.

Actually, I just looked at the manual pdf and it seems that you can buy a cable (optional extra) that enables it to work as a USB host. You'll probably need extra drivers and it won't run devices using more than 100 ma at 5V (my external HD - which is from a laptop says it's 0.5A at 5v) unless they have their own mains power and I don't know how you'd do that for an external HD.

Last post just appeared as I was typing, so please excuse the repetition