Best satnav at the moment

highrisklowreturn

Hi


Have never used a satnav before and am looking to get one pretty quick. I'm happy to spend up to around £100 and would need info on how they work, what is best, are they easy to programme for example, do they map out location of car even if you don't follow their directions etc...


thanks

Gloomendoom

TomTom or Garmin. That is the question.

If you don't follow the directions it will just recalculate the route to take into account your deviation.

forgotmyname

Plenty of SatNavs for half that money.

They all have their little quirks, Practice with it on journeys you know and
you will soon get to know how it works.

I take the wrong turn deliberately to test to see how long it takes to recalculate the route etc.

Ultrasonic

One thing to consider is to what extent you'll always want to use the exact route the SatNav comes up with, and how much you might want to tell it roughly which way you want to go. I have a TomTom Start, and its one limitation that occasionally bugs me is that I can only set one 'via' point on a route. I can't fault the TomTom otherwise, but I've not used any others to compare it to.

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forgotmyname

I bought a Navigo from ebuyer some years ago, Installed several different mapping programs on them.

The case looked exactly like the garmin ones, Not sure about the internals.
But it ran tomtom software OK also.

rum1

Ive found the Sta Nav supplied on my Samsung mobile phone to be good enough and the updates are free, just needed to buy a charger kit for the car

forgotmyname

I forgot about phones, A lot of them have GPS these days.

Nokia's OVI maps (unless they changed its name again) was made free for life.
I found that quite good.

I got an Android phone next and used several. Google maps, Co-pilot, IGO etc.

I use Co-Pilot mainly. But google streetview is handy sometimes.

MoneySavingUser

forgotmyname wrote: »

I got an Android phone next and used several. Google maps, Co-pilot, IGO etc.

I use Co-Pilot mainly. But google streetview is handy sometimes.

There is also this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.navfree.android.OSM.ALL

buscape

Nokia Drive on a phone.

You get free map updates, live traffic rerouting, speed camera warnings and voice search amongst other things.

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I have a 18 month old Tom Tom, which was top of the range and retailed at around £250.

First year, all fine. After 12 months, live services would cost another £60 or so a year and then an annual map service would be another £70 or so. Essentially, around 50% of the purchase costs would be required again, year on year. Screw that.

I think Garmin has lifetime map updates. Tom Tom in the USa has this but not here, in rip off land.

Unless you want to bin it and buy a new one every 12 months, you need a lifetime map update or factor in that fee. With Tom Tom, my 5 year costs would have been around £900.