Great 'Sat Nav' Hunt (merged)

Simplastic

Please be gentle: it's my first forum posting!

Not sure if anyone's seen this before but Morgan Computers (who specialise in selling old and refurbished stock) are selling two sat nav units with the following details. Stock may be limited.

Navman PIN - GPS System
Handheld GPS navigator with built in receiver
Includes car kit with power cable and cradle
UK/European maps
PocketPC organiser with software
Colour TFT
3D maps, spoken directions
Grade A refurb, 1 year warranty
£270.42 incl. VAT

Medion GPS kit
GPS Navigator and full featured PocketPC PDA
TFT colour display
2D map viewing
Spoken directions
UK/Ireland maps
Car kit and PocketPC organiser software
Grade A refurb, 1 year warranty
£176.24 incl. VAT

See https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk for details of mail order and branches.

Simplastic

Stephen7372

gizmondo looks good to me £110 ish

DarthMatticus

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=-12745&TabID=1&doy=1m9

Not sure if this one has been mentioned, but garmin are doing a new one with Major Roads of Europe on , Full postcode and can run on AA batteries for £199.99

Not able to use vouchers on them, but still a good price for a full sat nav. Not had a play with one yet, but seems pretty good for a no frills model

kwaka_2

Lidl's have the "My Guide" Navigator 6500XL for £199 on offer from Saturday 3rd September with built in GPS, and the software, etc, etc..... Its basically a fully functioning PDA with Windows PPC 2003 and the Falk Sat Nav software preloaded.
Its worth it just for the hardware alone!

It believe the offer is only South West Region.
I'll be there at 8am on Saturday to get a couple.

Here's the details.

"My Guide" Navigator 6500XL
REGIONAL OFFER - Only available from stores in the South West of England (except Gloucestershire and Hereford). Check in store for availability

Fully equipped navigation system: Pocket PC with integrated GPS receiver
Falk Navigator Premium Edition
With the navigation software Falk Navigator Edition, the MYGUIDE Navigator 6500XL guides you safely to your destination.
Using the supplied holders, simply mount to the dashboard of your car, the handle bar of your motorbike or bicycle, enter your destination and start your journey.
Functions:
- Quick and exact positioning through GPS (Global Positioning System)
- Automatic adjustment should you leave the original route
- Variable tour planning for up to 99 selective stages
Key Features:
- 400MHz Intel Xscale PXA 255 Processor
- 96MB Memory (64MB SDRAM and 32MB Flash ROM)
- 256MB SD-Memory Card with pre-installed maps
- Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 Premium SE
- TFT display with 65536 colours
- Weight: approx. 147g
- Size: 11x7x2cm
Also included:
- Microsoft Companion CD inc. Outlook 2002
- Falk Navigator Premium Edition CD's
Accessories included:
- Protective case
- Car, bike, motorcycle mount
- 12V automobile charging cable
- USB docking station
- External USB antenna
- 256 MB SD memory card
3 Year manufacturer’s warranty
Price per item
was £249.00
*Compared to last year

£ 199.00 *

http://www.lidl.co.uk/C1256C790050C7BC/images/GB.05_2222/$file/05_2222_b.jpg

jobbingmusician

If you really want to go to town, we bought a Garmin Streetpilot on special offer from Maplin. They were reduced to £699, but they had 1 or 2 which were returns (same guarantee) with an extra £100 off. So we got a Streetpilot for £599!!!!! :T :T

VERY important for us - my husband has NO sense of direction. I mean really NO sense - he has MS and seems to have lost that part of his brain (although most other bits work OK except for the bit that tells him to tidy up and do the washing up ). He can barely find his way into the local town, and he's lived here for 2.5 years. Now, suddenly, he's able to drive the cat to the vets, go shopping........just THINK of all the jobs I can find for him to do! :beer:

mercman_3

Just to throw another shrimp on the Barbie!

Am interested in buying a sat nav....i really need to be able to use my mobile with it though (bluetooth)?

Am considering a TomTom Go 5

anybody anything further to add to this?

regards

Pete

bob_a_builder

not quite the cheapest, but cheaper than some earlier posts

Acer Sat Nav £230 + p+p

Seems to include most everything you need, apart from a car cradle

macbrains

Lots of useful stuff here, but not quite what I'm after - in fact I'm not sure my ideal device actually exists!

What I need is the usual features for in-car use, talking you to a destination, but also a device that I can take out of the car with me when I'm walking in the country. I'd expect to change the map data to the two and a half inch OS maps (presumably a different card or something) but it would be able to show the route I was taking on the map.

Does anything like that exist? Probably haven't explained it very well - please say if not clear!

Many thanks
macbrains

swebb

SamC wrote:

Maplin are offering pre-orders for the Garmin StreetPilot i3 for £199 delivered. This is a self-contained unit with GPS receiver and screen, similar to TomTom's Go, so you don't need a PDA to go with it.

If you sign up to Maplin's newsletter you will be emailed vouchers for £10 off £100 and £30 off £300 which you could use to further reduce the cost.

The user interface is operated by a scroll wheel rather than a touch screen. It's very small but it does have a colour screen and 3-D moving map display. It has full UK postcode support. As far as I know it doesn't have the speed camera databases that you can get for other systems.

This does look good - does it have the ability to ID speed cameras, does anyone know? I know you can download a speedcamera database - will that work on this?

overide

AFAIK, you can download the poi database from http://www.pocketgps.co.uk and upload it the i3

I'm basing this knowledge on the fact that there is a the following on the garmin website for the i3:

StreetPilot i3 Updates & Downloads

* Additional Software
o POI Loader Ver. 2.0 as of July 29, 2005 Download


Mine should be here tommorow so I'll try and take a proper look over the w/e.