Smart Phone / Pda with Sat Nav

saintscouple

Hi, I need some advice.
I'm looking to buy the above and not sure what i should be looking for.
I would like to have email facilities and word/excel + internet browsing if poss, but mainly require the sat nav facility.
I require this on a PAYG, and as cheap as poss.

Initial search and i have found this http://www.totalpda.co.uk/Micromaxx-MDPPC-150-Refurbished.aspx#productimage refurbished for £128.02 delivered.
Any thoughts?

Many Thanks in advance

P.s Apologies to Mods, if not in the correct thread - please move if incorrect.

wonka

I have a T-Mobile MDA Vario that can do all of that. Not sure about PAYG, I'm on a contract, but I don't see why not.

I have IE/Word/Excel (mobile versions), TomTom, hotmail/outlook.

vaio

saintscouple wrote: »

Hi, I need some advice……I would like to have email facilities and word/excel + internet browsing if poss, but mainly require the sat nav facility….I require this on a PAYG, and as cheap as poss.

Initial search and i have found this http://www.totalpda.co.uk/Micromaxx-MDPPC-150-Refurbished.aspx#productimage refurbished for £128.02 delivered.
Any thoughts?........

That looks very much like the Mio 168 which I have. It works fine as a sat nav but is not a phone

amcluesent

Nokia are making their satnav smart2go a free download. On PAYG a Nokia N73 would be expensive though (£300?) plus another £40 for a GPS puck.

Little_John

They wont be cheap

The features you want can be use on Smartphones word excel web and email but entering text with a phone keypad isnt ideal and the screens are small.

I would go for one of the PDA based phones like the XDA, MDA, SPV. the newer smaller ones are more phone sized anyway the SPV m3100, MDA Vario 2 has a slide out keyboard and is really useable get an inexpensive bluetooth gps off ebay and GPS navigation software and you have a phone with GPS and a few PC functions includeing 3G Internet access which is actually useable. ohh and they have WiFi built in.

Unfortunatly I don't think any network does them on PAYG so if you insist on being PAYG then your going to need to buy 2nd hand the 3G phones are pretty expensive on ebay £200+ if your prepared not to have 3G, it is painfully slow using GPRS BTW then go for one of the older M500's.