Which Sat Nav?

Goksly · 16 Dec 2015 at 17:10

Folks are after a new Sat Nav - I always use my phone so no idea whats good or not in the dedicated Sat Nav market. Needs to be easy to use and, most importantly, speak the street names (i.e. next left onto Simpson Avenue etc).

Around the £100 would be grand!

iaind · 16 Dec 2015 at 17:17

What's wrong with the phone?

Goksly · 16 Dec 2015 at 17:29

Because it's my phone and this is for my folks! They're almost 70 so I'm not going through the hassle of trying to get them onto an Android phone or something. I get enough technical phone calls as it is!

Demon · 16 Dec 2015 at 19:04

I've always found Tomtom to be the best navigation system for ease of use etc.. Garmin are also good, if not quite my cup of tea!

The Tomtom Go 50 is £100 and comes with lifetime maps and traffic (You need a smartphone for a live data connection) but can update the maps on a PC.

Goksly · 16 Dec 2015 at 19:12

I was looking at the TomTom ones but couldn't find it explicitly stating it will say the street names.

Demon · 16 Dec 2015 at 19:17

Goksly said:
I was looking at the TomTom ones but couldn't find it explicitly stating it will say the street names.

The first review on Halfords website says;
"I like:street names spoken"
http://www.halfords.com/technology/...v-with-lifetime-tomtom-traffic-maps-of-europe

Also, you can download the GO manual on the QVC Page (which mentions spoken street names):
http://www.qvc.com/TomTom-GO-50S-GPS-with-Carrying-Case.product.E226078.html
The manual mentions it..

Demon · 16 Dec 2015 at 19:24

arfoll said:
Pop by a halfords pretty sure you can have demos there (or staples? I think they had satnavs last time I went...) I imagine they all say street names. I like tomtoms but some people swear by the recent garmins, tbh I haven't used the latest ones of either brand.

I'd second the go and play with them in Halfords.. I went to get the top end Garmin NUVI and walked out with the GO 6000, the Garmin had blocky graphics and confusing interface, the new Tomtom search system worked really really well and the constant data connection on the high end Tomtom was great.. I gave it to my parents when my new car had built in tomtom, but still miss the new interface today (My CX-5 has old school Tomtom), but I could see how someone might prefer the Garmin, horses for courses and all...

Kaeo · 16 Dec 2015 at 19:49

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TomTom-Start-5-Inch-Lifetime-Updates/dp/B00NBY3V58

You can thank me later.

Edit: This wont speak the street names, but it's basically by far the best sat nav at this price.

wingman · 17 Dec 2015 at 09:27

Recent Garmins look the part but still can't beat the core functionality of the Tom Tom.

Go with a Tom Tom.

PooKer · 17 Dec 2015 at 10:02

For the text to speech with Tomtom you need specific maps that support cspeech and then use a computer voice that supports text to speech (Susan and Simon I think they are).

Only chart I can find regarding what models support TTS out the box is for USA + Canada maps. I'd like to think most of them have the default support but to avoid having to fiddle around with different versions of maps. Each release of map usually comes with 9 different flavors depending on the Navcore version + features. For example only 7056, 7057 and 7082 support cspeech. But you won't know what version of map is installed when ordering a device. Nor do I know if you can pick what map via TomTom's Home app. As I've only got a stupidly old TomTom One (V2) with a whole 500mb of internal memory, and I've not looked at what my Tomtom rider has but both are pretty old now.

Sanchez · 17 Dec 2015 at 12:26

My grandad used to have a TomTom XL. Nice big screen, clear instructions and even tells you which lane to be in on the screen when approaching roundabouts or coming off the motorway. It tells you the street name when giving instructions to turn left/right also. Updates for life which is also useful (needs to be connected to a computer/laptop to get the updates though).

koolpc · 17 Dec 2015 at 12:34

My mate said to me what is large, sits in the car, gives you direction in a foul voice?

A 'Fat Chav'

footman · 24 Dec 2015 at 12:09

If you want to install third party points of interest you can forget TomTom. They've completely crippled new models with "improved" firmware that will only allow entry of poi's one by one but not allow .bmp files at all.