SatNav Dips Below The £100 Mark Again...

mgk

The NAVMAN ICN330 is also at PC World for 99.99 which lets you reserve at store (Currys not letting reserve and collect).

I was seriously tempted as I have a Navman PIN570 PDA/satnav on order from Amazon 129.99 (as posted on seperate thread). However, a quick look around the web and it seems that the ICN330 cannot support the speed camera database - so an extra £30 you get this support and Word, Excel etc, the ability to play MP3 and display digital photos.

At the minute I think I will stick with the NAVMAN PIN 570 - anyone have any good/bad experience the PIN570?

Thanks

italiastar

seth wrote:

Remembered reading of problems with cars with heated front windscreens. The heating elements in the glass block the signal so the unit cannot get a lock on the sat. I read this on an SME thread.

The spec for this one says internal antenna.

I'm no expert just thought you might want to check the before buying.

I've tried 3 diffrent systems (Medion, Navman, Garmin) in My Alhambra (Galaxy) with heated screen and experienced no problems - I've been told the problem is with coated screens in Peaugeots Citroens etc.

kevinyork

gazbert wrote:

Looks like a good unit. Has a touch screen which makes it better than the Garmin i3 immediately. The software looks to be Navigon 5 / MioMap v2, which I use on my Mio A701 and think it's great. Better than TomTom in some ways, but not as good in others. On balance I like MioMap better than TomTom though.

Wouldnt a 2.7 inch touchscreen be a little small to operate properly unless you have tiny fingers?

gazbert_2

kevinyork wrote:

Wouldnt a 2.7 inch touchscreen be a little small to operate properly unless you have tiny fingers?

Nope. It's designed to be used with fingers. So all the on screen buttons are nice n big so you can push them pretty easily. It's dead easy to use on my 2.7inch screen A701. If you have hands the size of a Domino's extra large pizza you may have difficulties, but for those of us under 7ft 6 it should be fine.

bluesru5

I'm not 100% sure but i think the problem does relate to Citreons Peugeot and some Renaults. I believe its the coating for the rain detection for automatic wipers. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm also pretty sure it's cured by fitting a small antennae that sticks on and allows the GPS inside the car to find satellites which the coating stops it doing.

4ndy_b

I have a ford with a heated windscreen and rain detector and it works fine. but why not spend some extra pennies and get the tom tom one in the £160 thread.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=269433

Hammer_Slammer

kevinyork wrote:

Wouldnt a 2.7 inch touchscreen be a little small to operate properly unless you have tiny fingers?

I thought the same but reading the spec it does come with a stylus which should help the sausage fingers amongst us.

Tharweb

bluesru5 wrote:

I'm not 100% sure but i think the problem does relate to Citreons Peugeot and some Renaults. I believe its the coating for the rain detection for automatic wipers. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm also pretty sure it's cured by fitting a small antennae that sticks on and allows the GPS inside the car to find satellites which the coating stops it doing.

Citroens have heat reflective windscreens. This is known to cause a problem with GPS devices. All I did was to position my Garmin on the quarterlight on the drivers side of my Picasso and I get a perfect lock. I've never tried it on the windscreen as for one thing my arms wouldn't be long enough to reach the sat nav if it was positioned there.

Aiadi

gazbert wrote:

Looks like a good unit. Has a touch screen which makes it better than the Garmin i3 immediately.

Have you used a Garmin i3??? I'd check the facts well before making such bold statements as the i3 is still the best SatNav at this price level.

A touch screen is neither here nor there if you have poor maps, inaccurate routing, unreliable software and inability to install speedcam or POIs database.

kondormid

but why not spend some extra pennies and get the tom tom one in the £160 thread.

Er, could it be that we like saving money re the title of the site?