hi all,
My son has requested a sat nav for his birthday as he has to travel further now for his work. He has left it up to me to decide which one and as I have no idea, thought I would throw it open you all.
In Argos there is the New Navman spirit range by Mio. There is one priced at £129.99 which includes traffic and speed cameras. This sounds ideal but is a lot cheaper than others with traffic. Has anyone got any comments to share about this make/model please, or can recommend others that do the same job for about the same price?
Don't bother paying extra for traffic. All except for the hugely expensive TomTom Go Live! are worse that useless.
All the others use the Traffic Master data, compiled from the Highways Agency data. It's usually at least 24 hours out of date, and slow to update. I've pulled up on the back of 8 mile jams that aren't on the traffic, and been directed aroud a crash that was cleared the previous day. So worse than useless. Local radio with your RDS TP service is what you need.
Use the Search button before posting newbie questions about hard tops and fitting kits, footwell speaker amps, water in the boot, hood maintainance and those horrific angel eyes. We get like 10 threads a week on the same subject, it's obvious that you haven't searched.
I think SatNavs are a bit like mobile phones - people have their own brand preferences and different makes have their own peculiarities.
My son specifically asked for a Gamin because he'd used one and like the firmware logic. This offer is on Amazon today and is the widescreen version of the one we have.
i use a tomtom at work and it's pretty much faultless. they tested it against a garmin and also the satnav built into the blaupunkt hadunits we use and apparently the tomtom is ALOT better. think theyre pretty cheap now aswell which is always a bonus!
ive been using a tom tom for nearly 6 years now,you wont find better,easy to use,its childs play,reliable,not as cheap as others but i think an all round better sat-nav
I too use the Tom Tom and I can not fault it. used with the Post code it will take you there, or at leastr in the vicinity. I have used it abroad as well with no problem. I subscribe to the speed camera notification and that helps a lot, although to be honest, I am not usually going faster than the limit.
So for me Tom Tom is the one.
When he gets it, try and persuade him to navigate just by listening to the audio.
It is frightening to see drivers gawping at the screen instead of the road as if they are playing on the xbox. (Our screen mount is still in the box)
I've used a few satnavs too, and by far the best for accuracy is a built-in unit from Pioneer.
Personally, I really don't like TomTom very much. I find it slow and never takes me the same way twice.
I recently got a Garmin Nuvo for work, and so far I'm pretty pleased with it, especially for the price.
Your son needs to get off his 4r5e and go to Halfrauds with you, have a look at a few demos and see which one HE prefers. Then buy it cheaper off the internet
Satnavs, like anything, are suject to personal taste. What YOU might like HE might hate. Make him have a look!!
Thanks for all your replies. Seems Tom tom is preferred by the majority. Have looked on internet and prices are quite good, but now confused by the model numbers. ' Tom tom one' are v2 v3 v4 etc - whats the differenc? Yes RobBruce, he should come with me but he has been working in the USA for 3 months and his Birthday was in July. Just wanted to have it wrapped up and ready to give him on his return (a soft mother thing).
pingu wrote:Makro are having a TomTom sale NOW. The trouble is that they have no stock .
They now have TomTom One V5 GB in stock for £99.99 +VAT.
I got one today. It has MapShare, IQ and Safety Cameras. The camera database is not as good as my old one, but I'm sorting that by transferring the old camera databases onto the new TT.
TT One V5 EU will be £119.99 + VAT when it's available.
Old stock of TT One Classics are available at <£70 +VAT in the Nottingham store.
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