I want to get a portable sat nav system in my car, but i dont know which one to go for as there are loads of choices, my mates just bought one that you dont need to registra and it only cost £279 but befor i buy one i would like to know other peoples thought and advice. Thanks in advance.

AA 2005 road atlas, £6.99

Glad to be helpful Dave :mac1: :x:

Tomtom is outstanding, I havent used any other software but even my mother can work out how to use it and she can't use the damn phone I run it through to make a call :rolleyes:

 

Whatever software you go with look for a reciever with the SiRF Star III Chipset. I have version two and it's fine by me but all the reviews I have seen say the third version is a real step up.

 

The system I use cost about £170inc and it can run through either a windows smartphone or a phone running Symbian s60, the only extra to take out of the car is a reciever which is about the size of a box of swan vestas :D

AA 2005 road atlas, £6.99

Glad to be helpful Dave :mac1: :x:

I've just paid £1.99 for this at a Shell garage, you have to spend some money on petrol but I don't know how much. Only something like £5 though.

My brother has TomTom. He has complained about it.

I have Tomtom Go 300 and its an amazing piece of kit! It is all controlled by touch screen and is extremly user friendly. Its got me to all my destinations, in fact when I took a wrong turn once deliberatly it recalculated the route and got me on track again. It's a bit pricey though, current price is £369.99

I cant comment on the other sat nav systems though.

I have Tomtom Go 300 and its an amazing piece of kit! It is all controlled by touch screen and is extremly user friendly. Its got me to all my destinations, in fact when I took a wrong turn once deliberatly it recalculated the route and got me on track again. It's a bit pricey though, current price is £369.99

I cant comment on the other sat nav systems though.

:bow: Tom Tom :bow: i got this about 4 weeks ago and it's great, no more running people off the road in me truck reading maps....:rofl::rofl::rofl:

i went to bass junkies today they said the tomtom had problems so they dont supply them any more i went for the pioneer x1r £1100 very good peice of kit and it does dvd,tv and sat nav with pop up lcd screen you should get a cheaper one from £350 if you just want sat nav if not this is great if i have any probs i will post them up

 

try http://www.bassjunkies.com

I want to get a portable sat nav system in my car, but i dont know which one to go for as there are loads of choices, my mates just bought one that you dont need to registra and it only cost £279 but befor i buy one i would like to know other peoples thought and advice. Thanks in advance.

 

I bought 8 Medion basic jobbies (£279 from Halfords) for the service engineers at work and they seem happy with them. No more struggling to read maps or getting lost (and no more excuses for them being late to customers!!)

 

The Medions may not be as trick as the TomTom or Garmin etc but they do a good job and you can't complain at the price. I may actually get myself one, it might stop map-reading related arguements between Julia & I.... ;)

 

Alternatively, if you have a PDA phone go to http://www.totalpda.com and buy a TomTom chip for it. They are around £150 IIRC. I've just bought one for our installations manager - only arrived Friday so nothing to report yet.

 

Richard :D

this one has had good reviews, goes from 2d to 3d views, can be a bit quiet but you can plug it into the ice if it has a 3.5mm input or buy a cheap ass hands free amp and plug into that.

 

review:http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/navman-icn510-review.php

 

dixons online

 

http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?sku=470029

 

 

you can also install all the current gatso and uk speed camera locations for pre warnings, this got a 97.5% rating.

I've downloaded Tomtom mobile 5 with GB map with cracked GPS so i can use any GPS receiver just need to buy a Sirf 3 receiver which will set me back about £100 inc delivery on ebay. ive also downloaded the lastest speed camera database (i think its got traffic light cameras too) and also some petrol station database.

 

it got a POI feature on it, which you can download POI from websites or make one up yourself.

 

I using my 6630.

you have to buy a bigger memory card i bought 256mb on ebay for about £20

Gps receiver Sirf 3

tomtom mobile 5 software.

 

i use my memory card reader to transfer data from phone to computer.