Cheapest & Best Sat Nav

[Deeg]

Morning all,

Could do with getting a Sat-Nav, but don't want to spend too much money. Just enough to get me a practical and extremely usable unit, with speed camera's if possible.

Don't really wanna spend over £150 - £200.

Any recomendations?

Also, would be helpful if I could get it from a shop, as I'll need it for the weekend, but web links are also good.

Cheers All.

Deeg.

 

[MT AUDIO]

tom tom one gb best for the money approx £179.99
poi
speed cameras
optional traffic
you can demo your route before you go,look at a breakdown like you do on autoroute and also miss out particular roads you dont want to use or use a particular road along your journry.i have one and its top notch
plus you get a 2 year warranty as apposed to a 1 year with all the others

 

[Sib]

I've got a nav man f10, cost me £100 and after an initial memory error has been a great tool.

Would reccomend and has optional traffic unit £50

Has:

Take me home
POI plus find nearest garage or carpark
3D and 2D maps
Speed Camera's and Speed alerts
No subscription cost, just by new maps when outdated

 

[Deeg]

Time to be totally dense. POI?

 

[Alan]

POI - Points of interest, mate.

 

[Sam21]

tom tom one gb best for the money approx £179.99
poi
speed cameras
optional traffic
you can demo your route before you go,look at a breakdown like you do on autoroute and also miss out particular roads you dont want to use or use a particular road along your journry.i have one and its top notch
plus you get a 2 year warranty as apposed to a 1 year with all the others

Same here, love it!

 

[Deeg]

POI - Points of interest, mate.

Thank you.

Is the tomtom one ready to go out the box? Speed camera's etc, or are there loads of hidden costs, subscriptions etc?

 

[Sam21]

It is ready to go out of the box as far as being able to use it immediatly goes (even battery was almost fully charged on mine). However The speed cameras I had to pay a £20 annual subscription for, which I personally was happy to do. The traffic updates are an extra £40 I believe but not too sure, both the cameras and traffic are entirely optional and you do not have to pay any subscription if you just want the other features.

 

[rory182]

£99 bought me a garmin i3, got one for my dad for £65 off ebay.

Only downside is lack of touch screen, so I'd go for a Garmin with touchscreen.

 

[Sam21]

Just looked at my subscription details and it says I signed up with Traffic and Speed Cameras for £33.89 for a year. You can buy the speed camera subscription on it's own for a lot less.

Had forgotten I signed up with the traffic also lol, gonna try it out later!

 

[MT AUDIO]

atm the speed cameras come free,you get a free promotional code valid until october 2008 iirc

 

[Deeg]

Think I'm gonna go for the tomtom one.

Bonus about the speed camera's - Do you know if that is justa leaflet in the box or something? Or is there a code you need?

Also - How do the updates for traffic work? Are they done via satalite? Or do you have to have the unit connected to something else? As you can probably tell, I know nothing.

Cheers for all the advice people.

 

[The Super A!]

Dont go for traffic updates, the system is just those boxes on top of motorway signs, out of date by about 15 years, the garmin and navman have started using navteq software, which at the moment isn't as reliable but is soon going to be better than the tom tom software, watch out!

 

[MT AUDIO]

the traffic you have to pay for the aerial then pay for the service not worth it imo, the speed cameras have a promotional code which you download form tom tom with