cheap smartphone for use as satnav

Browntoa

cranford wrote: »

I have used Waze on a smart phone and its quite easy but if you want live updates I think you will find you will need a sim witha mobile data included in the plan. I would imagine other satnav apps also need mobile data for live data.

As I mentioned , use main phones data via hotspot

Tom99

I have an 8GB 4yr old phone. I tried Navmii but did not like the interface. Am trying Google Maps offline at the moment. If you have space you can download quite a large map from Google and it lasts a year before you have to update it.
I live in the SE and have downloaded a single map covering much of England, as far north as Manchester and west as Bristol. This map is about 1GB of storage space.

Tom99

One of the things you never see in phone reviews is how good the GPS signal the phone receives is. I am sure they must vary, will a £700 Samsung get you a better signal than a £50 Argos?

RumRat

A flagship will be better as it will have the better chip installed. That said there aren't many current phones that are bad at GPS.
If you are going to use Satnav a lot it's more important to go for a phone with a better battery, as GPS is power hungry.

EssexExile

RumRat wrote: »

If you are going to use Satnav a lot it's more important to go for a phone with a better battery, as GPS is power hungry.

Or plug it in.

RumRat

EssexExile wrote: »

Or plug it in.

If you are using it in a car......an excellent suggestion...otherwise.......

WLM21

How about a Huawei P20 Lite phone

Currently about £13 / month in Carphone Warehouse

Google maps is a good sat nav app