Sat-Nav Advice

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Hey all,

Looking for advice on a sat nav for my fathers birthday. He's used them previously, as have I, but they all seem to become slow, and inoperable over time and need replacing.

His current one is the old TomTom (looks like a mini CRT!) which he's had for a fair while now.

It needs to be simple to use, not have ongoing payments for traffic, ideally have speed camera detection, post code search, and any other new features which I've missed.

Budget is up to £200, tho i don't have to spend all of it if there's a better one for less.

Any special deals, recommendations, or ones that stand-out?

TIA
 
Pick from the tom tom range. compare features, Tom tom have been the best for a long time and imo still are by some margin.

Not sure on "becoming slow" etc. My tom tom is 5 yrs old and works as it did on day one. Could do with a map update now though.
 
ZG002 said:
Pick from the tom tom range. compare features, Tom tom have been the best for a long time and imo still are by some margin.

Not sure on "becoming slow" etc. My tom tom is 5 yrs old and works as it did on day one. Could do with a map update now though.
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Echo this, for portable satnav i use a mix of iphone tomtom app, and a standalone tomtom start. Both are excellent really, the tomtom start was really cheap too.
 
Lots of people say that tom tom are the best sat nav, but ive found that garmin units are far better in terms of functionality and reliability. Makes sense since theyve been making sat nav systems a lot longer than tom tom.

One thing I hate on tom toms is that there is no PC based (not the last one I tried, albeit 3-4 years ago) like the garmin mappoint software. Its good to setup all your waypoints if your doing a really big trip etc.
 
I recently got a good deal at halfords for a tomtom live

Europe maps, iq routes, hd traffic (really good) Google search, and road angel speed camera alerts

I think with the deal I paid 130 ish. I'd had sat nav on phones before but this is far superior
 
mikeh501 said:
Lots of people say that tom tom are the best sat nav, but ive found that garmin units are far better in terms of functionality and reliability. Makes sense since theyve been making sat nav systems a lot longer than tom tom.

One thing I hate on tom toms is that there is no PC based (not the last one I tried, albeit 3-4 years ago) like the garmin mappoint software. Its good to setup all your waypoints if your doing a really big trip etc.
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See I got given a Garmin at work and really hated it! Find tom tom much better, Everything is simple and just works, Pretty much everyone I know who uses sat nav will pick tom tom over any other unit every time,

Not many people set up way points for there sat nav I'd imagine, but you can do this on the tom tom units also.
 
My old garmin 630T has recently given up the ghost (well maps are out of date, power cable has snapped and windscreen mount gone floppy) but it's had 4 years of hard use (100 addresses put in a day, taken on off the windscreen many times a day etc)

Work have now provided with me a TomTom and I find everything about it is inferior apart from its much quicker to locate satellites and your position, but then again Garmins have probably improved that in the last 4 years...
 
Thanks guys, my brother raves about his Garmin, but its died after 18 months light use, and i didn't like my works Nuvi they supplied me (old tech though). Not sure why my dads old TomTom has gone crappy, but it has despite resetting it. My wife's Navigon screen has become unresponsive too - tech just seems to deteriorate. My dads TomTom has probably been used 50 times in the 5 years he's had it, but is apparently intolerably slow/inaccurate now.

I personally use ndrive on my iphone, and its been faultless for ~£10, but he wants a simple dedicated unit. I have recommended the TomTom Via LIVE 120 - seems to have everything he could need, for a not-ridiculous budget of £150.

Will see how it goes, with us not spending £250 I can replace it for him for another similarly priced one in two years if needs be... The traffic subscription is a PITA but i guess its a good feature with speed cameras too.
 
what the hell are you all doing with these sat nav's? I highly doubt it will need to be replaced in two years.

Good choice though. :)
 
thats just it though, they're used very infrequently, and looked after well inbetween uses. Never mind, its his bday, and i need an excuse to buy him something :)
 
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