Has any one had any experience with these?

 

 

They are GPS things for the dash. Colour screen and works out the route you should take. Some dont do that but this does.

 

The reason I am asking because I was in Costco a few months ago and there where on sale for £750. I looked on the internet and the cheapest I saw them was £1000.

 

I went to Costco today and there where selling them now for £550. It has to be worth it for that.

 

Has any one used them?

It would have come in handy when I went on holiday this last year.

 

Stuart

I think you have to pay a subscription on them.

 

cheerz, mickey

No. According to the site. No yearly fee.

Sounds like a bargain for sat nav. Last one I looked at cost over a grand.

 

cheerz, mickey

I found a web site that compared this with the PDA ones you can get.

 

They said the down sides over the PDA where

 

No 3D view,

Went wrong once or twice and had to be turned off and then back on,

To input address was a bit of a pain,

 

 

Good point where,

Good GPS pick up, less than 2 mins to get a lock from starting it up,

Screen very colourful and bright,

Dash bean bag mount surprisingly good,

:eek: Couldnt resist. :D

I have an eTrex Vista, which is kind of similar, you can download up to 24Mb of map data to it - very useful.

 

I also have a bluetooth enabled GPS, which has a shite display but along with a a laptop or PDA can do the full screen moving map display etc.

I see they've made a version for autos too :D

 

Still won't help with your parking pete :p :D

Originally posted by AndyP

I have an eTrex Vista, which is kind of similar, you can download up to 24Mb of map data to it - very useful.

 

I also have a bluetooth enabled GPS, which has a shite display but along with a a laptop or PDA can do the full screen moving map display etc.

 

 

I got 128mb stick with it and a USB card reader for it.

 

I have downloaded the whole of the UK for it and it has 40mb free space.

 

The screen in excelent. Really colourful. It also can tell the time of where you are and automatically adjusts the screen for night or day use. Satalite reception is superb. Picked up over 10 satalies with it on my dash in about 1 min. I have never seen that many found before, especially with the standard arial.

 

The fastest route search is a little strange. For a 3 mile drive it took me up the dual carrage way onto the motorway and get off 2 stops after and drive through town. Thats a little strange.

 

However if I was in my Z I would rather like that detour ;)

 

Stuart

They're great but really expensive. A client of mine has one on his Goldwing bike stuck to a bean bag thingy. If you want cheap sat nav and have a laptop theres a mouse thing that plugs into the usb port. Got one for £40 off Ebay and it links to Autoroute. Tweak autoroute for 2 second updates and you can see which side of the road you're driving on. Totally great for finding some place you've never been before.

 

Alternative if you dont want the laptop one is the one that plugs in to a decent colour palm type. Mate just got one - has great colour screen and voice commands too. Anyone who pays the best part of a grand for gps now is nuts. Garman will have to cut its prices shortly

 

In fact the Sony / Palm one the mates got can even get the speed camera data onto it then it doubles as a camera detector as well all for less than the price of a certain angel thingy..

 

Plus I'm trying to get the software for it to make it measure your acceleration times and calculate horsepower.

 

Get a link to the tomtec type data off the zed interface as well and it'd be totally brill.