Evesham nav-cam 6200 sat nav £99

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Prices of satnav units will go the way of DVD players when the Chinese get 'actively' involved.

deanos

L.S.D. wrote:

there while. Not good enough for me I'm afraid. Does the Tom Tom at £200-00 have these problems & can you get a map for Spain. I don't like the Bulge at the back of the Tom Tom so is there another one without that bulge that could be recommended. Not too expensive. Please...

£199 includes streel level mapping for all of Europe, or as mentioned get a PDA and get a copy of TT with euro maps from Ebay for around £10

http://www.navmanstores.com/eu/product_details.php?category=Navman+GPS&id=391

Tinman

Tom Tom one (v2) is the one:j

knobsausage

joeann90 wrote:

:rolleyes: I have just got the evesham nav cam 6200 ,and i read here that it does a male voice as well,how do you get it :rolleyes: what setting do you go in to,i have tried all of them and can not get the male voice,when i switched it on at first it was the female voice by default,i can not see how to change to the male voice,any one out there with this model who can explain exactly how to change to the male voice guidance,:D as i heard on here that the male voice was very clear to navigate by,and the wife wants to hear a mans voice for a change:o thanks for any help.:T

to change voice . change settings ,change language ,GB,then tap the one you want

bandicoot_2

Got the navcam 6200 from asda last sunday , used it a couple of times now and works great for me ,very quick to pick up gps signal,speed cams work fine etc,took a few wrong turns last nite on purpose and it redirected me straight away very pleased with it at the moment.Just a couple of bad points tho on the poi if i go to police it is locked to the irish police stations?for some reason and i cant change it to the english ones.And if i do a hard reset that doesnt work either.Also no way of deleting your bookmarks or adding poi.
Does anybody know if you can get maps of France for this unit as there is nothing to suggest you can on any web sight i have seen?

Roadrunner5553

Bought the Evesham 6200 today at Asda. Took it home turned it on and it found me within 2 minutes. That's where the good bit ended. Tried to do a search by address but it did not even display a country so would not let me go any further. Contacted Evesham Technology, who took me through the whole procedure, even formatting the hard drive and reloading software. All to no avail. The unit was missing the initial software somewhere. Took it back to Asda but all sold out so had to have a refund. Not exactly the best purchase I have ever made - 100 miles for the 2 trips to collect and deliver, and a WHOLE DAY wasted. I may as well have bought a £150 one - and I still havn't got a Sat Nav.

Roadrunner5553

Hey Guys and Gals.
I take it all back. I managed to find another one (my word they are selling fast). It was checked in the shop and found to be OK so I let it take me home. It took me right to the door without too many mistakes. The only ones it made was twice telling me to turn right then left on an open road without a turning for miles; but that is no fault of the unit, just the satellite. Now for the good bit. I live in Aylesbury - where roundabouts were invented and another is put in every 2 weks somewhere in the area. That SatNav brought me through 17 roundabouts without getting one wrong (and 2 of them have only been there 6 months). now that to me is impressive.
It has a nice british sounding female voice and picked every Gatso and Mobile site between Oxford and Aylesbury, even in the town area.
To sum up. For £99 you can't go wrong.

socks_uk

I bought my husband the Navman from tesco and then the Evesham from ASDA to see which he preferred as a Christmas present but he can't decide as he likes certain features on each.

I've shown him this thread about the ASDA one but can no longer find the thread about the Tesco one. Could some kind person post or send me the link to it so he can read all your comments and make his mind up which one I'm going to take back for a refund.

Thanks all,

Jill

smartie1976

socks_uk wrote:

I bought my husband the Navman from tesco and then the Evesham from ASDA to see which he preferred as a Christmas present but he can't decide as he likes certain features on each.

I've shown him this thread about the ASDA one but can no longer find the thread about the Tesco one. Could some kind person post or send me the link to it so he can read all your comments and make his mind up which one I'm going to take back for a refund.

Thanks all,

Jill

I'm in exactly the same situation.
Which one to keep, which one to take back...

Some reviews of NAVMAN ICN330 from amazon for comparison:

5/5: I consider this Navman outstanding. Unpack, stick to the windscreen, plug in and it works. Don't expect to get a signal from inside the garage or parked next to the house wall. It has to see the satellite. Remember to 'click' it into place on the windscreen cradle or it will fall off. Mine did 3 times before I realise my mistake. Very robust, falling off did no damage whatsoever. Take a wrong turn and it automatically re routes you excellently. I have had mine a month. I bought it on recommendation from a lady rep who was fed up with others failing. She could not praise it higher. Neither can I.

1/5: The Navman worked OK much of the time, though it can't cope well with built-up areas and cloudy days - reception affected to the extent that you could wait up to 40 minutes for a signal, at worst. What got me in the end was that, after 7 months, it told me to connect to a power supply while on a journey or it would switch off. It was already connected and down it went. Took it to be repaired and found that this faulty connection is a common problem with this model. Was given a new replacement. It didn't last 7 months, it lasted 7 minutes then conked out. My advice: don't bother

4/5: It's cheap, easy to set up, and "does what is says on the tin". Well most of the time...I have used the gadget for a couple of months or so now and it has mis-directed me twice - once in Sudbury town centre and once sending me on a wild goose chase in the Cotswolds. You can never get seriously lost when you have it in your car, though. Most of the time you can just sit back, ignore road signs and listen to the instructions. HOWEVER, I have had to learn to look at the map display too, because in areas with densely-packed streets or on complex junctions the instructions sometimes don't seem quite so clear - or maybe it's my aging brain!

I don't miss touch-screen. I haven't found the lack of full postcode addressing an issue. But I do miss the facility to seek an alternative route. Be warned - if it thinks you should be using (say) the M1 and you know there are traffic jams there and use roads to avoid it, this gadget will persist in trying to take you on to the M1 until you have gone sufficiently your own way that it judges the M1 no longer to be the quickest route. I have learnt to loathe the dreaded "Take a U-turn when possible" instruction! I would certainly make sure that my next sat-nav has an alternative route facility.

That said, this gadget works and I won't go anywhere unfamiliar without it. You will be amazed to find that even for short trips you think you know inside-out, it can show you a route that can save you 5 minutes or so!

5/5: I think this product is excellent. Only used it on a few short journeys so far but got me there without any trouble. Even went the wrong way to see how it corrected itself and it was very quick. I did have a slight problem with the on/off button actually going into the unit itself. I returned it and was sent a new unit out immediately so I cannot fault the suppliers at all.

4/5: Used for a couple of long breaks, after getting settings right in preferences (went down a few too many country lanes), it was very good, and makes driving feel a lot more leisurely. only cons were quite a long wait to connect to gps - 10mins so always turn on Navman and then get kids in car etc. dont try and connect when on move it rarely works, another problem is when Navman thinks your on another road which runs parallel to the one your on. But all in all its a great aid not far from perfect.

3/5: I bought this today and used it straight away, out of the box it is very easy to set up, although turning it on from the button at the side was a nightmare and I seem to have broken the battery on switch . The menu system is easy to understand and I havent yet looked at the manual and have no intention of doing so.

It's cheap, it does what it says on the box, the speakers are crystal clear, the maps are quite easy to follow (except going slow in urban areas can be quite hard to see the roads so listen out carefully to the instructions rather than relying on reading the map).

So far its ALMOST taken me where it was meant to, but going to Edzell near Brechin up in Scotland, it decided that I was at the High St 4 miles away. It also has old roads, one of the roads I travelled on has been running for over a year and it still had the old road on it, so perhaps its time they updated their mapping? I am certainly not paying £119 for a new map from the navman site!!!

Overall it seems good, there has been a couple of hiccups in my first day, but I will bare with it and give it a bit of a chance, however if the mapping is wrong again I'm afraid I will have to get an exchange for something else as I rely on this thing for my job.

It is my first sat nav, it seems good value for money, but if it isn't getting me to where I want to be then how good value is it really?

4/5: This is a great sat nav system. Easy to use, easy to set up, great value for money.

The only downside is that there doesn't appear to be a battery life indicator (I couldn't find anything in the user guide either), so if you're running it off the battery rather than the cigarette lighter socket on your car, it can cut out without warning (which it did to me on one occasion when I didn't have access to a charger).

Aside from that I would say this is perfect for the sat nav novice, or someone who doesn't want to spend a fortune on a sat nav system but does want something that works well.

I have recommended it to all my friends (one in particular who is having no end of problems with their Tom Tom!).

In short, a great little gadget and well worth the money

5/5: Please do not listen to any negative ratings for this ! Before purchasing i looked at every sat nav possible and read reviews galore and eventually thought for as much as im going to use this i may aswell spend £150 rather than £300 on a tomtom. Ive actually surprised myself with the use and not once has this let me down and it even gets a good signal through my heat reflective windscreen. It is precise and loud enough to hear driving at 70mph. Honestly this is a brilliant sat nav and £150 cheaper than tomtom.

2/5: The navman is not that good, it takes a long time to connect to a GPS satellite, and it has sent me to the wrong place on a few occasions lucky I had an A to Z with me. But over all its ok. Will sale it on e bay and invest another £100 to get a tom tom, which I used before. Its good for motor ways, but no good for inner London.

5/5: Just received my unit today and lovin it already tried it out as soon as it came and works like a dream. clear instructions from a choice of a male or female voice. easy to use and find places ok it tried to direct me down a bus lane but i knew it was there, back on track feature is a must hav works so quickly you wont even notice that you've missed a turn. This is the first sat nav i have used and cant wait to get lost now to really test it

(and 4 more giving it 5/5)

paulmcfc_2

I know i am probably behind the times but oh well, this sat nav will only connect via usb 2 with active sync and i only have usb 1 DOH!! can it be updated without active sync and with usb 1, tried the evesham help line and the guy just listened and didnt have a clue about the machine. Got mine from Burnden park Asda they seem to have a few in.....