Garmin i3 for £99

shianatika

Why not just use the car adapter, why all this battery talk???

Clasics

shianatika wrote:

Why not just use the car adapter, why all this batter talk???

To avoid spaghetti junction on the dashboard? I have a Medion with separate charger and receiver and the only thing I don't like about it is the plethora of wires!

shianatika

fair enough its not much bother for me, I find that the i3 will often switch itself off when running on batteries when they get about half full, it is also far less audible at this stage. I would use the car power supply where possible.

boatman

shianatika wrote:

Why not just use the car adapter, why all this battery talk???

When you turn the unit off the batteries keep a memory of the satellite info so the unit finds your position faster.

Horlock

Don't know if aldi still have their batteries - but worth a try. Bargain (even if not so high rated) at £1.99 for 4. The charger wasn't a lot more than that either.

northern_munky

The i3 handbook says you need rechargeable batteries of at least 2300Mah. I bought a Uniross charger with 4 batteries off Ebay under £9, the batteries last about 5 hours in the sat nav.

boatman

I use 2100mAh and 2500mAh batteries and can't tell the difference. Just make sure you go in to 'settings' and change the battery setting from Alkaline to NiMh.

Altarf

Had a play with one in Comet today. It failed to find either my street which has been here 7 years, or the postcode which changed 6 years ago.

When it failed to find the address, and I used the postcode I expected it to put an X on the map where the street is. Nope, all it knew was that postcode range was associated to a particular town, and that was all.

If it is this bad with fairly old postcodes, does it know about roads built in the last few years?

I think I will wait for one with more up to date maps.

iwanttosavemoney

siva wrote:

Comet are selling this beauty for £99. I bought this earlier this year for £129.99 and it is very good value for money. Here is the link

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/647_285005.html

Siva

Has this gone as I cant see it on the Comet website ?

paul_h

Looks like it's been taken off.

Probably selling too many...

Keep checking back though...