Which sat nav system?..up to £300..

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Hi all..

Ok the time has come for me to buy a sat nav system (well i need one because i told my insurance company i had one :rolleyes: ) but i have no idea which one to go for,my absolute max budget is £300..

Just got back from a local car superstore (o i wonder who that could be :rolleyes: ) and they had loads!..I really am spoilt for choice and stuck for which one or make i should get..

What do you think people?anyone any experience with the various makes and models etc etc etc..

Help!!!! :)
 
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Chronos-X said:
I bought a PDA for £120 with an inbuilt GPS and didn't look back... dedicated units are a bit of a waste imo :)
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Surely that didn't include the software though.

I just chaged over from a PDA setup to TomTom 510 and I am most pleased with it after sorting a little teething problem.
 
A decent PDA system is a lot more customisable, as someone into technology i definately prefer the way i can tinker with different versions of the software and edit everything about it etc.

The hardware will cost from a little as £100, decent sirfstar 3 receivers (the ones to have) start at around £50, then decent PDA's start at around £50 if you look around the bay. Add in a memory card of your choice and you are good to go, then you can load on whichever software you prefer.
 
Thats like £50 cheaper to what I paid for my TomTom one, and this one is better looking! Has it got the same internals or are the original tomtom one's faster or something?
 
ive got a del x51 with tom tom 6 on it and a seperate bluetooth sirfstar 3 gps unit, i went to alton towers on saturday, with a friend who has a tom tom one, the tom tom one was quicker at recalculating the route than the x51. Was also very loud reding the directions, pretty good speaker on it.

I would go with the all in one tt1, bargain for £200 , less wires as you dont need a seperate gps unit.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
ive got a del x51 with tom tom 6 on it, i went to alton towers on saturday, with a friend who has a tom tom one, the tom tom one was quicker at recalculating the route than the x51. Was also very loud reding the directions, pretty good speaker on it.
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Should have bought an X51v. Mine calculates routes in 2-3 seconds at the most. 624mhz *** ;)
 
[TW]Fox said:
Should have bought an X51v. Mine calculates routes in 2-3 seconds at the most. 624mhz *** ;)
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Thats what ive got, paid £200 ;) may have had something to do with the battery saving cpu setting i had it on.
 
bobbyboy uk said:
Thats what ive got, paid £200 ;) may have had something to do with the battery saving cpu setting i had it on.
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Yes thats exactly what is wrong becuase power save = 200mhz = 3 times slower than it should be :p
 
bobbyboy uk said:
ive got a del x51 with tom tom 6 on it and a seperate bluetooth sirfstar 3 gps unit, i went to alton towers on saturday, with a friend who has a tom tom one, the tom tom one was quicker at recalculating the route than the x51. Was also very loud reding the directions, pretty good speaker on it.

I would go with the all in one tt1, bargain for £200 , less wires as you dont need a seperate gps unit.
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Dell's arnt an amazing choice PDA wise for satnav as they have stupidly bad speakers. Having said that though i have a dell too because it was bargaintastic for the spec :p My old IPAQ had a very good speaker which was audible above the stereo even with the stereo turned up. A better choice if you can get a ~400mhz model (the point at which tomtom gets no quicker) for cheap.
 
hittman said:
the new TomTom one regional: http://www.tomtom.com/products/product.php?ID=233&Language=1

I got it last friday and it is very good. £199.99 from halfords and it is all you need. very easy to use, slim and small and its a TomTom, which has a lot of potential to be customised.

Use to own Navman 520 and the TT one is much better.
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i own a navman 520

did you find it slow to find a GPS fix ?

and did it loose GPS signal with you often ?
 
MrLOL said:
i own a navman 520

did you find it slow to find a GPS fix ?

and did it loose GPS signal with you often ?
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if your talking about the navman 520, I did find it slow finding a GPS fix. It is a good sat nav but not compared with the TT one. The new TT one on the other hand is very fast as you can even get a GPS fix within the house, which I think is really good so its pretty unlikely to lose the signal.

If your looking for a decent upgrade, go with the TTone.
 
i only just got the icn520 :(

but however i did get it on special and only paid £170 for it.

biggest iritation with it, is its inability to get a GPS fix unless you get out of the car sometimes (refuses to get one inside the house) and the fact it doesnt do full 10 digit postcode

still at the time, the Tom Tom one Regional and europe werent out, and they wanted £270 for the uk only tom tom one, which considering the european mapped (albeit major roads only) icn520 was £170 seemed stupid.
 
MrLOL said:
i only just got the icn520 :(

but however i did get it on special and only paid £170 for it.

biggest iritation with it, is its inability to get a GPS fix unless you get out of the car sometimes (refuses to get one inside the house) and the fact it doesnt do full 10 digit postcode

still at the time, the Tom Tom one Regional and europe werent out, and they wanted £270 for the uk only tom tom one, which considering the european mapped (albeit major roads only) icn520 was £170 seemed stupid.
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take it back if u can and see if u can swap it. thats what i hated about the 520, slow signal and lack of postcode facility. apart from that, it worked ok once u get a signal. lol
 
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