Garmin i3 for £99

Gamanon

Although I live in Milton Keynes, I was down in London today and had a look at the Comet store in South Ruislip just on the off-chance. Amazingly, saw one in a cabinet marked at £99.99. Was over the moon, so went to the checkout and the assistant went out the back to get one. The man scanned it at the till and he said "that'll be £129.99 please". I explained it said £99.99 in the cabinet, so he went and checked before then overriding the computer's price and giving it to me for the £99.99 price.

I tried it on the way home and, to be honest, I had expected it to be a bit naff for £99. However, I was bowled over by how good it was. Thanks to the OP and all others who recommended it - an excellent buy!

fraz41

blinky wrote:

It uses a mini-SD card. It comes already in the unit.

actually uses micro SD cards (aka Transflash) like the ones used in some high spec mobile phones. They're smaller than mini-SD.

My version (bought several months ago) came with the card and I bought an extra one to load up US maps for a hol.

packard_2

sorry guys its back at £129!! - however I would ALWAYS update the firmware; its been updated for a reason...

mik0312

Checked again today and still £99.99 in High Wycombe

northern_munky

packard wrote:

sorry guys its back at £129!! - however I would ALWAYS update the firmware; its been updated for a reason...

Well after I updated from 2.7 to 3.1 I have had quite a few problems and so have most people who have done this, the maps are very slow to update, it does random re calculations and sometimes shows the the arrow as no where near the road! Worked perfectly on 2.7, worst thing I did was updating!

beerbellybill999

You can revert back to 2.70

here is a link to all the firmware updates for the i3.

http://www.gpsinformation.org/perry/streetpilot/sp_ix/

make sure you unzip it to a fresh folder

I have tried them all and have always gone back to 2.70

northern_munky

beerbellybill999 wrote:

You can revert back to 2.70

here is a link to all the firmware updates for the i3.

http://www.gpsinformation.org/perry/streetpilot/sp_ix/

make sure you unzip it to a fresh folder

I have tried them all and have always gone back to 2.70

I know, but after reading a couple of people on the Pocket GPS world site who did this and had even worse problems, I'm just waiting for 3.2 now :rotfl:

therev_4

Seem to be back on the comet website at £99


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

siva

It is available for £99 instore both in Comet and Staples as per ads in Sun and another paper in the last 2 days.

Siva

greyster

nope, still on.