Decent Sat Navs from £65. Navman for £70

dbramley

I'll be in the market for a Euro Sat Nav within the next couple of weeks (driving to south of france in summer).

Quite like the look of the Garmin Nuvi 250 Widescreen -£30 more than the standard mentioned above. Cheapest place by a mile is Amazon but just wondering why?

Are they old models with old maps?

thanks

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boatman wrote: »

Is this a whole GPS package or is it just a GPS receiver(like a bluetooth one) that you still need software for??

Ebuyer have the MyGuide with IGO software and a mains charger for £69.99.
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/144106

GPS reciever plus a few Sony Ericson programs for tracking your running route

Here's more details:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/products/accessories/overview/hge-100

Even as 'just a gps reciever for sony's' it's still cheap and well designed

boatman

dbramley wrote: »

I'll be in the market for a Euro Sat Nav within the next couple of weeks (driving to south of france in summer).

Quite like the look of the Garmin Nuvi 250 Widescreen -£30 more than the standard mentioned above. Cheapest place by a mile is Amazon but just wondering why?

Are they old models with old maps?

thanks

The maps are 'new'(the latest Europe 2008) but there are new Garmin models out called the 255 and 255w. There are a few new features in the software like text to speech and a next turn arrow in the display(something that has been sadly lacking in Garmin upto now). Can also use the GTM25 traffic receiver.
'Its digital elevation maps show you shaded contours at higher zoom levels, giving you a big picture of the surrounding terrain'.

stphnstevey

Are Tom Tom, Navman and Garmin the two top makes? Why?

Is there a website link were the functions are easily compared for a novice like me!

Rusty5010

I bought this one, and got free european maps update

http://www.mynewcheap.co.uk/products/details/garmin-streetpilot-c510-sat-nav/10188/

all in all it cost me £90, but was well worth it

:T

Mighty_White

The Navman N20 looks to be out of stock now on Amazon.co.uk.

Does anyone know anywhere I can read a review on it?

Twosheds

scotty76 wrote: »

Hi,

Ongoing costs depend on what you want really. If you want to always be bang up to date then it costs. If you don't mind a 2 year old map then it's cheaper.

IMHO the best speed camera database is available here:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/

It costs £19 per year to join.

Map updates are released periodically by the respective companies. There only are two mapping companies that supply all the sat nav market. These are TeleAtlas (who supply TomTom) and Navteq (who supply Garmin).

I have a Garmin Nuvi and the maps are released once a year. The latest one costs £60 (this is for the whole of Europe map). You don't have to update annually and I am told you can skip a version. i.e. the latest version is 2008 and assuming there is a 2009, 2010 etc I could skip straight to 2010 when that comes out.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Garmin-European-City-Navigator-Update/dp/B0012XKCMU

As the actual devices are so cheap now it might be viable to EBay your old sat nav before the new maps come out and then re-buy it with the new maps. Would depend on the costs really. Whatever happens the maps are not really right up to date anyway. The map making companies have to add new roads and correct the mistakes, then they sell the maps to the sat nav companies. The sat nav companies spend time encoding them to their own format and then finally they are released. So the likelihood is that 2008 maps probably really means, Q1 2007 maps! :-)

Here's some discussion:

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=66372

Anyway, hope that is of some help!

Oh and don't bother paying extra for traffic information on your sat nav, it works very poorly in this country at the moment.

thanks Scotty. I'm sure I'm not going to worry too much about an out-of-date map - my current "satnav" involves reaching behind my seat for a bent and crumpled 2005 map and getting the wife to try to work out where we are, so I think anything will be an improvement on that (assuming, unlike the wife, they all have a volume control...;) )!

Lexis200

The Big Brand: Navman N20 £69.99 delivered. Full UK Mapping

Amazon price has mysteriously hiked up to 99.95 delivered... funny that after it's been "promoted" here. Way to make a fast buck Amazon! :rolleyes:

evo9

Clicked the Amazon link - cant see where they are £70, shows new units at £99.95 + shipping! Used units £65.98 + shipping???

anewman

Nav4all gives poor routes sometimes IMO compared with Tomtom, and you have to remember that it will involve GPRS data charges on your mobile. Not a problem if you have inclusive free GPRS data on your mobile though.