Sat Nav

fairygirl06

Hey guys i'm in need of some advice and any would be greatly recieved!

I am looking to buy a Sat Nav to use in the UK and Western Europe and was wondering what people thought of these two:-

Garmin Nuvi 350T Europe Traffic

TomTom ONE EU

The only difference is with the tomtom you have to pay £30 a year to get the up to date traffic reports, whereas from what I can gather u dont have to on the Garmin.

Anyone got any experince of these?

Many thanks

wonka

I've had a TomTom ONE for 18 months and am very impressed with it. Has worked flawlessly so far, and the maps are very accurate - can only think of 2 occasions where I found myself on a road that was missing from the map, but these were roads that had only just been built, so hard to criticise really.

I did sign-up for the TomTom traffic reports for a one-month trial, but found that it still said there were hold-ups even after the congestion had cleared.

But maybe Garmin uses the same data as well anyway???

bookduck

From previous posts, people seem to like the tomtom more. My ipaq has tomtom s/w on it and it is brilliant. Traffic reports are handy - if you spend much of your time in traffic best have it as part of a phone system - frequent updates, rather than on long journey and if an accident happens and your device does not know it causes you to be stuck in traffic. If it is not on a phone, then you have to connect it to a pc to sync.

'$afety' cameras are a great thing to have - cost £19 per year from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Cameras&referer=SideBar
a cheaper page with European cameras too £7?? http://www.scdb.info/en/