sat nav - which one and why?

Fluffy Bunny · 12 Feb 2006 at 16:30

ok in the market for a sat nav and narrowed it down to two.
1. Sony NVX-P1
2. TomTom 700

which is the better one and why..............

Planning to drive to south of FRance and need something that is going to work

Thanks for the input.

mattpc · 12 Feb 2006 at 16:41

Don't know what the Sony is like- Tom Tom is excellent. I have seen other systems in action such as Garmin and Navman. These are nowhere near the quality of tomtom.

Fluffy Bunny · 12 Feb 2006 at 16:49

got a friend who as a tomtom 500 and he swears by his but read some good review on the sony
http://silvabokis.typepad.com/silva_bokis/2005/11/sony_nvxp1_nvxp.html
and now stuck on which to buy................................

Slackworth · 12 Feb 2006 at 17:05

mattpc said:
Don't know what the Sony is like- Tom Tom is excellent. I have seen other systems in action such as Garmin and Navman. These are nowhere near the quality of tomtom.

I disagree highly. The new Garmin Nuvi units are fantastic.

mattpc · 12 Feb 2006 at 17:09

adwhitworth said:
I disagree highly. The new Garmin Nuvi units are fantastic.

Fair play, the Garmin unit I saw in action defo was not the one that you are praising so I can't really comment...

MrMoon · 12 Feb 2006 at 17:26

tomtom one looks quite good if you dont want Btooth or europe maps

mattpc · 12 Feb 2006 at 17:29

my tom tom came with European maps. You have to load them onto a big memory card tho (I have the PDA version)

[TW]Fox · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:23

MrMoon said:
tomtom one looks quite good if you dont want Btooth or europe maps

The TomTom 700 has both these?

Fireblade2K4 · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:26

I think you'll find the TomTom One has got Bluetooth, mine has and it is an excellent bit of kit, glad I didn't choose anything else

Stu

Chronos-X · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:27

I run TomTom 5 on a PDA for £120 and its excellent

Dont pay over the odds for the same thing for gods sake...

NickXX · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:28

My only experience is of TomTom. However, I use it most days for work and it never lets me down. It also comes with Maps of Western Europe, which are the main roads in Europe. It guide me down to the South of France with no problems, I had so much trust in it I didn't bother packing a paper map.

Nozzer · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:34

Fireblade2K4 said:
I think you'll find the TomTom One has got Bluetooth, mine has and it is an excellent bit of kit, glad I didn't choose anything else

Stu

It does, yes, but only for downloading things. The 700 lets you use it as a Bluetooth handsfree kit.

Fluffy Bunny · 12 Feb 2006 at 18:43

so are we saying the tomtom is better than the sony nvx-p1?
Anyone had any experance of the sony nvx-p1?

Many thanks so far

Fluffy Bunny · 13 Feb 2006 at 15:59

Lets try and close this now

Which one is better ............

eidolon · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:00

I've only tried TomTom and Navman and out of them two I'd definitely go for TomTom.

On Saturday night I was playing with my mates Navman and tried 3 different addresses, it couldn't find 2 of them and sent me 20 miles in the wrong direction for the other one. (it thought a Bath postcode was in Bristol)

monkeyspank · 13 Feb 2006 at 17:30

Nozzer said:
It does, yes, but only for downloading things. The 700 lets you use it as a Bluetooth handsfree kit.

The 500 can be used for that purpose too.