Poor mans Sat Nav.....

highguyuk

point3 wrote:

Tut, tut, boys!

If you had any sense you'd hot-foot it down to your local Staples store and head for the clearance tables, where they are selling off discontinued Sat Nav units. The Bluemedia (Evesham) 6300 units are reduced to £90 (RRP £299) and the Cybercom (Medion) PNA150 units are marked at £90, but go through the tills at £50. Both use a Windows CE OS, so can be customised to run other Windows CE programs (incl. TomTom Navigator ).

Do you have any more info on these? Have a local Staples, and £50 for a unit would suit me fine!

smartie1976

More info about the units themselves:

Blue media - http://www.haggul.com/Product.asp?PID=528305

Cybercom/ medion PNA 150 - http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/medion-mdpna-150.php

A damn good buy for £50... i'll be off to staples after work...

Danlaur

(Medion) PNA150 units...... none left in our Staples...... Wouldlike to buy one if any one can get one 4 me.... cash waiting.... with bonus !!

highguyuk

No left near me too

How long they been at this price? Anyone know?

smartie1976

none in the three near me either.

Shame cos I really like the bluemedia one for the missus (who gets lost every single day near enough trotting round for her job)

PM me if anyone knows where there are anywhere in the northwest

point3

TomTom Navigator 6 (same as TomTom One) running on a poor man's Medion :

gromituk

Please don't condone illegal activity on here.

point3

gromituk wrote:

Please don't condone illegal activity on here.

Perfectly legal...:)
http://www.pcwb.com/catalogue/item/TOMTOM93

gromituk

...bringing the price for the cheapest to well over £100 - assuming there really are units "marked at £90, but go through the tills at £50" - an anomaly which shops never allow to persist for long.

point3

gromituk wrote:

...bringing the price for the cheapest to well over £100 - assuming there really are units "marked at £90, but go through the tills at £50" - an anomaly which shops never allow to persist for long.

Perfectly legal, too ... it's called a clearance bargain - see the other Staples threads for networking bargains.

BTW, Evesham Technologies are selling refurbished Bluemedia BM6300 units on ebay for £119 BIN plus £5.99 postage - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Clearance-Evesham-PNA150-Destinator-SATNAV-UK-Maps_W0QQitemZ190038460793QQihZ009QQcategoryZ4668QQssPageNameZWD1VQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

They are accepting best offers too
These come with the latest Destinator software and 6 months of free speed camera updates. If you want, though, you can exploit the perfectly legal loophole to unlock these and run other Pocket PC programs.