Great 'Sat Nav' Hunt (merged)

rickw_y2k

Cost me £61.00 in total, I already had the Nokia 6600 so bought the Bluetooth GPS receiver from Ebay for £58.00 and bought a platinum disk with Tomtom mobile for £2.99. Works a treat and half the price

lapat

hi all regarding your sat nav hunt
ive just bought a tom tom go 300 for £4.8.99 from dixons online i then added a readiley available £25 discount voucher but i also bought it through greasypalm so got an extra 1.5% discount
so it come in at well under £315 with free delivery cant get them on ebay for less than £330
so if you havent already joined greasypalm follow link and join http://www.greasypalm.co.uk/r/?l=207299 if you have then log into your greasypalm account and follow the dixons link and add the following code discount25 to get your £25 off

PeteM

Or access GP by going to http://www.greasypalm.co.uk without the stuff at the end of the link (is that a referral?).

MORPH3US

Anyone after POI for Tom Tom (not sure about others though!!!) try this link:

http://www.dvd-recordable.org/wwwimgs/media/flash/DOWNLOADS/Great_Britain_POI.zip

Has Asda, Argos, Hotels, Speed Cameras, Football grounds etc etc. Its brilliant!!!

Lady_K

Which is the best satalight navigation system that you can remove when you get out of the car for safety? and preferably 2 holders to use in another car if possible

I want one that is very precise, do they ever make mistakes? I want one that is clear simple and covers everything. What about if there are roadworks or road closures what happens there?

Which is the best and as foolproof as possible and of course the best value for money?

heathen

MORPH3US wrote:

Anyone after POI for Tom Tom (not sure about others though!!!) try this link:

http://www.dvd-recordable.org/wwwimgs/media/flash/DOWNLOADS/Great_Britain_POI.zip

Has Asda, Argos, Hotels, Speed Cameras, Football grounds etc etc. Its brilliant!!!

or u could try here for more,just scroll down to united kingdom and away u go;)

http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/tomtompoi.php

thespacecowboy

Lady_K wrote:

Which is the best satalight navigation system that you can remove when you get out of the car for safety? and preferably 2 holders to use in another car if possible

I want one that is very precise, do they ever make mistakes? I want one that is clear simple and covers everything. What about if there are roadworks or road closures what happens there?

Which is the best and as foolproof as possible and of course the best value for money?

For safety, do you mean so no-one knows you have one to steal? Most come on a window mount which attaches with a suction pad. You can normally remove the whole unit and take it with you, or put it in the glove box.

They do make mistakes, they are mainly reliant on the quality of the unit and the maps that are loaded. I've heard mainly good things about the mapping on most, although some older units now have out of date maps (I saw one from 2003!)

Most only come with one holder, but you can pick another up from ebay for less than £10.

The tomtom's are prob the best for ease of use, but are expensive.

bob_a_builder

Makro have THIS one for £235 inc vat at the moment.

I've just got one on 'appro' ( 28 day return policy) !

Quite impressed, loverly toy, but then I've not had one before, experimenting with position in car at moment since I have a Peugeot 307SW with metalised screen

I was (stlll am) considering the Garmin i3, but after using this with its 3" x 2.3" screen, I'm not sure the i3 would be readable enough for me, although not seen an i3 in the flesh yet

overide

The Garmin i3 firmware version 2.4 is available to download at http://www.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=995 this fixes the hanging issue.

Thanks to cuppa from http://www.pocketgps.co.uk forums

Norman-B

bob_a_builder wrote:

Makro have THIS one for £235 inc vat at the moment.

I've just got one on 'appro' ( 28 day return policy) !

Quite impressed, loverly toy, but then I've not had one before, experimenting with position in car at moment since I have a Peugeot 307SW with metalised screen

I was (stlll am) considering the Garmin i3, but after using this with its 3" x 2.3" screen, I'm not sure the i3 would be readable enough for me, although not seen an i3 in the flesh yet

Bob, your link is coming in at £299 inc vat.