Is there much point in a standalone sat nav these days?

RumRat

JustAnotherSaver said:

If only we could all be as perfect as you though.

When does the first class begin?

You've no chance of catching up.....You'll just have to be satisfied being slightly damaged....

JustAnotherSaver

RumRat said:

You've no chance of catching up.....You'll just have to be satisfied being slightly damaged....

Slightly damaged would be an upgrade buddy. I hope to attain that level some day

HoofeHearted

What about trying HereWeGo?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.maps&hl=en_GB

Download maps beforehand, so no data required.

Tallaght

I used a tomtom for years around Europe with work and never had a problem.It would evaluate new routes as needed.I found it worked much better than a garmin when taking short cuts via streets or roads.

searchlight123

as someone who works on the road (sales agent) with a lousy sense of direction, sat navs are brilliant for me. i've always used tomtoms (with traffic reports of late) and find them brilliant but i also use waze on shorter journeys for convenience. i find it also works well. my BIL, who has a great sense of direction, often says to me if in the same car, 'don't go that way, this way is quicker'. for a quiet life i listen to him and invariably get stuck in traffic due to a hold up or accident, and even he is now coming to the conclusion that in those scenarios it is better to trust your sat nav as we cannot see miles ahead ourselves.

i concede that if you know where you are going all of the time and you have a good sense of direction then maybe your need is not as great as mine!! i also find the reminders given of speed cameras and prevailing speed limits is of great use also. yes i know we should not ever speed, but living in the real world and in an age when 3-4mph over the limit can get you done, it is a very useful feature to have, and to have an audible warning sound is surely better than driving a lot of the time watching your speedo instead of the road ahead?

avoidtheupsidedownbottles

tonygold said:

 i also find the reminders given of speed cameras and prevailing speed limits is of great use also. yes i know we should not ever speed, but living in the real world and in an age when 3-4mph over the limit can get you done, it is a very useful feature to have, and to have an audible warning sound is surely better than driving a lot of the time watching your speedo instead of the road ahead?

Haven't used my Garmin in a few years so perhaps they are better now, but the speed limit indications/warnings weren't too reliable.  Still worth having for the majority of the time that they are correct, though.

JustAnotherSaver

As we get on to Garmin & TomTom talk ... I much preferred TomToms. I bought the TomTom app on the iPhone back in around 2010-2011 for £50 but then they shafted customers some years later and rendered the app useless. They forced you to move to some other sort of TomTom app. I forget what it was called now. TomTomGo or something. I could be well wrong on the naming but i'm not wrong on the being forced off the app thing. The app i paid for was no longer getting updates.

I really liked the layout of it though and had previously experienced a standalone TomTom map. I looked at Garmin units on YouTube and wasn't keen, so i went and bought a TomTom unit. Couldn't tell you the model, this is a few years ago now.

They had totally changed the layout. It wasn't nearly as easy to navigate as the previous TomTom's i'd used. I think they even removed some features which i used. In the end i'd had enough and i returned it for a refund.

Went for the Garmin Nuvi 2519LM in its place. While it wasn't as good as the original TomTom's i'd used, it was a million miles better than the newer TomTom i experienced.

My opinion. Others will disagree.