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cheaper the better?
or even tips on what funtions to look for in a sat nav?
cheers
Cove123
I have a Garmin Nuvi 255. It works pretty well and has always found every thing I've asked it to do. It does suffer from a habit of picking the most direct route even when you tell it not to, that can normally be solved with a via point on a big road. Did take me on a rather memorable trip over an alp rather than round it! Still can't complain for 85 quid - all of europe for that price as well.
Re-reading the above makes it sound a bit rubbish. It's not, it's really quite good. I'm probably nit picking.
Functionwise, just make sure it's got Europe on it, if you're ever likely to go across the channel. Super useful, my one seems to have every hotel in france in it.
Tomtom - without a doubt
I have the Garmin Nuvi 255WT (Widescreen version of the one Ewan has, also with traffic monitoring) which I think is brilliant. Without the traffic monitoring (which to be honest, is barely worth having, it's not that good), it can be found for £99.99 online.
When I was shopping around I compared the features and everything with other Sat Navs, and for the price it stood out head and shoulders above everything else! Equivalent Tom Toms were £60-100 more! So I went to Halfords where they had one on display that you could have a play with, and I found it more intuitive to use than a Tom Tom anyway... So I bought one.
I've just got a Navman S80 via ebay from navman-clearance-store for £65, factory repacked. Works great, plus you can unlock them to get into the Windows CE OS and run other satnav programs off the SD card. It has bluetooth, audio out, etc, bargain.
cheers will look out for your suggestions!!
If you don't have a car hands free kit for your mobile, it ight be worth buying one that has blue tooth and acts as a hands free kit too.
TomTom Start - £89ish at Halfords, and if you drop me a line (email's in my profile), I'll email you a link that'll get you about 5% extra discount off it too...!
We have had a Navman (£70) for 5 mths now - does everything we want - sorted
dunno if i can say here or not , but i got a garmin mobile xt for sale in the classified, put the sd card into your GPS enable phone viola sat nav.