Navman PiN 570 SatNav £99.99 at Halfords

Micky

Hi,

is this better than the Medion at PC World for £99.99?

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1675740878.1167748066@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccdcaddjilhmfjecflgceggdhhmdfhj.0&page=Product&fm=null&sm=null&tm=null&sku=705056&category_oid=

ought

A little hard to tell ;o)

Micky

ought wrote:

A little hard to tell ;o)

Oh come on, give us a clue

Micky

BTTT.

I'm tettering again. Medion or Navman.

To my untrained eye, the Navman looks the better deal.

ought

Am I missing something? If I look at the Medion on PCWorld's site there is no information at all, nothing but "Medion".

shane8961

I bought this and Im so glad:

a) Install tomtom and its just as good as any tomtom unit
b) it IS a pocket PC, you get all the benefits of a pocket PC, even though you are only using it as satnav, you can install games etc, word & excel come pre installed, voice recorder..blah blah blah
c) Comes with SmartST which isnt great, however I am going to NZ and tomtom dont do a map for NZ, but SmartST do so I have left SmartST installed, installed Tomtom aswell and have the tomtom maps on one card and SmartST on another. So you get 1) Pocket PC, 2) Navman SmartST GPS, 3) TomTom GPS!!!

It really is great, I used to use a Siemens Pocket Loox 600, the navman feels alot nicer and better made, unlike some PDA's the GPS receiver uses the PDA battery so you can take it out the car and still use the GPS (dont know why you would need to though).

Only problem is the speaker isnt that loud. Please bear in mind though I do drive an MGF softtop so it is louder than most cars. Its loud enough that you know it is "spoken" but cant really understand it - so it still alerts you that something is coming up, then you can look at the screen - or get a bluetooth headset and use that with it.

I would rate this a good 9/10! Loses marks on the following:

1) Quiet speaker
2) "case" that comes with it is awful!

Would recommend to anyone!

shane8961

mgk wrote:

TomTom Navigator software is available as a separate purchase - this can be installed on the Pin570. Navigator 5 works well (but is also only 5 digit postcode - unsure if there are multiple versions), I have read on web sites that Navigotor 6 (only released a couple of months ago) can also be installed but is slow - so not sure on this one.

I have installed tomtom 6, and it runs fine. I had tomtom 5 installed on my old PDA and it runs just as quick as that. Also both tomtom 5 & 6 have FULL postcode lookup.

georgiac

Hi, I was going to buy one but have been told that if you load Tomtom software and use it with the batery and it goes flat, you have to reinstall all the software.

Does anyone know if this is correct?

laticsforlife

withabix wrote:

Sorry, can't possibly direct you to P2P filesharing networks as that isn't allowed on here!

Perish the thought - anyhow, already looked and got no results.

shane8961

georgiac wrote:

Hi, I was going to buy one but have been told that if you load Tomtom software and use it with the batery and it goes flat, you have to reinstall all the software.

Does anyone know if this is correct?

Unfortunately this is true (or at least was with my loox 600), however there is a "Backup" program, which backups your PDA to the mem card, if the batt goes flat, just do a restore, takes literally 2 minutes.