PSP GPS Go!Explore

orderoftheflame · 14 Jul 2008 at 12:17

This is being released properly in the UK on Friday apparently, and it's had some pretty favourable reviews.

Anyone else looking at picking this up?

Nismo · 14 Jul 2008 at 12:33

Was discussed here before, and I think the vast majority thought it was a poor concept.

(Opinion here has been known to be different to the rest of the world though

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Nanoman · 14 Jul 2008 at 12:39

General consensus was that its quite expensive, meaning a tomtom can be had for a little bit more, tomtoms cant play street fighter though.

orderoftheflame · 14 Jul 2008 at 12:51

Nanoman said:
General consensus was that its quite expensive, meaning a tomtom can be had for a little bit more, tomtoms cant play street fighter though.

I'll agree it's quite expensive, I think I got lucky pre-ordering it before the price sky-rocketed.

All the reviews of it I've read seem quite favourable so far. I think I'll just have to wait and see what it's like.

Joebob · 14 Jul 2008 at 13:37

I can't see how the PSP's speakers would be loud enough to give clear instructions - the volume doesn't go anywhere near as loud as you can set a TomTom at!!!

cokecan · 14 Jul 2008 at 14:40

not really looked into this, but how do you input text etc as obviously the PSP doesnt have a touch screen. is it just with an onscreen qwerty keyboard you scroll through with the d-pad or analogue etc?

GTanny · 14 Jul 2008 at 14:48

Big problem i have is the PSP screen itself, i was trying to use it on the train yesterday and its useless with any slight sign of sun!

unless this is sorted i dont think ill be bothering. or is there any aftermarket options for this issue?

Joebob · 14 Jul 2008 at 14:53

cokecan72 said:
not really looked into this, but how do you input text etc as obviously the PSP doesnt have a touch screen. is it just with an onscreen qwerty keyboard you scroll through with the d-pad or analogue etc?

There are plenty of non-touch screen sat navs on the market which work really well. Should be fairly easy to use without touch imo.

GTanny said:
Big problem i have is the PSP screen itself, i was trying to use it on the train yesterday and its useless with any slight sign of sun!

unless this is sorted i dont think ill be bothering. or is there any aftermarket options for this issue?

I can see this being a problem too - TomTom's screen is definately a lot brighter than the PSP one.

CaDLoN · 15 Jul 2008 at 15:07

If the hardware for this is the same as the previous addons i.e. the camera & mic then i cant see it being any good, Cheap nasty plasticy junk thats expensive!!!

Hopefully i'm wrong and this GPS gadget will be half decent

JamesRJ · 15 Jul 2008 at 21:47

There are plenty of non-touch screen sat navs on the market which work really well. Should be fairly easy to use without touch imo.

Care to name a few ? 2/3 years ago there were a few but not now.

Joebob · 15 Jul 2008 at 22:08

JamesRJ said:
Care to name a few ? 2/3 years ago there were a few but not now.

Most inbuilt sat navs in BMW's and Volvo's have a joystick or buttons rather than touchscreen (when I say most I'm refering to the last two BMW X5's my old man has had and my step mums Volvo's). Also I have seen a few mates sat navs which were quite cheap and have a little wheel at the bottom of the screen which is used to navigate the menus etc.

JamesRJ · 15 Jul 2008 at 22:52

We are talking about portable devices not indash systems. The one your mates had was probably a garmin i3, two buttons and a scroll wheel/button in the middle. They came out 3 years ago and have long been discontinued.
As far as I know there are no current portable sat navs without touch screen.