Navman PiN 570 SatNav £99.99 at Halfords

Micky

mgk wrote:

The maps are included but I understand that you have to pay for an unlock key before you can use them.

Thanks for that. I tried entering some numbers found on the outside of the CD box, but no luck.

The thing works! Although not until I realised that I have to flip the pad up (duh). Even gets a signal through a heated windscreen, Halford's man said that it might need another aerial.

Just got to work out why the screen closes down after 30 secs.

nightrider_1uk_2

Supernuger

Looks like a good device. Please excuse my ignorance but if this thing sits in the card slot, do you not have to have the map card also in the slot. I do not know if the unit has 2 card slots.

Only if it has one, last time the misus tried putting two cd's in a single slot neither came out again. (And in a higher car on the contient lol)

timbellina

Jazzy_B wrote:

That looks interesting. Let us know if it works.

I've not tried it on the Navman, but I've used one on another PDA and it worked a treat. Exactly as you'd hope. The limiting factor seemed (for me) to be the pda, not the wireless connection speed. Only one problem, and that was I found myself wandering the streets on holiday looking for a hotspot, or an open connection; and that tied my SD slot up.

If that's no big deal, then it's a cheap and cheerful way to put wifi on a pda. 'Nuff said!

Tim

laticsforlife

nightrider_1uk wrote:

Supernuger

Looks like a good device. Please excuse my ignorance but if this thing sits in the card slot, do you not have to have the map card also in the slot. I do not know if the unit has 2 card slots.




Not 100% but think that the point of the wifi is to surf the net etc, and not to use ST at the same time, as you'd hardly need both at the same time.

I think the thing to do is carry the maps (whichever you have) on one SD card, and the UK maps on the provided card, and the wifi as a 3rd card.

I'm a bit confused over the 3 map disks.

we already have UK provided on a card and I think you can install say France from disk 2 by using the desktop program, but i presume that a lack of memory space means I'll need a card before I do that?

shane8961

laticsforlife wrote:

nightrider_1uk wrote:

Supernuger

Looks like a good device. Please excuse my ignorance but if this thing sits in the card slot, do you not have to have the map card also in the slot. I do not know if the unit has 2 card slots.

Not 100% but think that the point of the wifi is to surf the net etc, and not to use ST at the same time, as you'd hardly need both at the same time.

I think the thing to do is carry the maps (whichever you have) on one SD card, and the UK maps on the provided card, and the wifi as a 3rd card.

I'm a bit confused over the 3 map disks.

we already have UK provided on a card and I think you can install say France from disk 2 by using the desktop program, but i presume that a lack of memory space means I'll need a card before I do that?

I may be wrong but I believe you have to pay extra for the maps supplied on the CD's. When you buy the sat nav you get the license for the UK and europe MAIN roads - but not any specific country in europe (ie france etc) so when you want to install these you will have to pay extra for the licences for them.

ravenfield

stumpt wrote:

Whilst I can see the point you are making, is this not the same as comparing a Ford Escort to a Ferrari.

Both get you there, but one does it with a lot more class for a huge amount more money?

Can you point me to a similar or better spec'd sat nav + pda for less than a hundred quid?

i was answering to grahawk question, he said he doesn't care about the GPS. he's buying it solely for the pda function only. So i'm telling him, this pda isn't as sleek and slim as any proper pda, cpu and screen not as good, battery is buildin so you can't replace it, no bluetooth & wifi, etc. He doesn't care about sat nav but i'm telling him it's an all round good sat nav + pda price because it's only 100 quids.

gwapenut

Does anyone know if you can you buy a Traffic Message Channel bolt-on for this device to receive TrafficMaster (not Itis) updates?

mobyfix

I bought one of these two weeks ago as the Navman mapping is horrible so I upgraded its mapping to Tomtom navigator 6........and was in Halfords again and overheard one of the sales staff admitting to a customer that virtually everone at Halfords had bought one and downloaded Tomtom from the internet...... ( the pirate version ! )...

It is good advice... ( up to you about your conscience about a pirate copy of Tomtom ) The navman with a decent software package is a very good machine and very good value at £99.99.......

A touch screen PDA with a built in GPS reciever, car kit, car charger, mains charger and computer discs and cables.........

Get it while you can ! :beer:

fishfinger

Well I have had the unit for a week or so now and I am happy :T with the satnav system and have also purchased two cheap 1gb SD cards one for music and one for films (sreens a bit small but for under £100 one can't complain).:money:

supernudger

just to confirm that if you see my previous comment the sd wifi card works perfectly in this pda, in fact i'm writing on it right now!

the navigation software still annoys me and i'm having problems getting hold of tomtom software. if anyone can pm me some guidance it would be much appreciated (if that's allowed).

1gb sd cards also work fine.