Sat Nav?

[John]

I'm after a cheap new sat nav, under a hundred quid. What have people got, how do they perform, and links to said products.
What, in peoples opinions is the best budget sat nav? Ta all!:thumb:

[NovaBoi92]

tomtom one is brilliant, dont go for these £65 satnavs theyre not very good tbh.

edit: the Binatone £65 ones btw, thats what my bro has and its not very good lol

[John]

What's a tomtom1 retail for?

[sulphur]

Tomtom One is just under £100 in halfords. Can't go wrong!:thumb:

[MK999]

ebay for it then search out reviews etc, got a navman n60i widescreen jobbie for 60 quid about 6 months ago, long as you're not set on a definite make theres plenty of choice for bargains

[John]

ebay for it then search out reviews etc, got a navman n60i widescreen jobbie for 60 quid about 6 months ago, long as you're not set on a definite make theres plenty of choice for bargains

Nope not stuck on definate make.
I figured it's be easier to ask peoples opnions on them, from people who actually use them everyday.

[NovaBoi92]

TomTom one is probably the best for £100. when i was using it, it was faultless, smooth, updated well and warned about speed cameras very quickly. it did, for some reason, give me the voice of borat and when i reached my destination he wanted to 'high five' me. lol very good nav though

[mowgli]

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[John]

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:yAxa-lJ8UOCRaM:http://www.office365.co.uk/im/pim/643417.jpg (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.office365.co.uk/im/pim/643417.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.office365.co.uk/Books-Pads-Albums/571399-AA-London-SE.htm&usg=__dzja4T7vPq6S4XF85YBWmvq6q7A=&h=300&w=260&sz=48&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=yAxa-lJ8UOCRaM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daa%2Broad%2Bmap%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26 sa%3DN) then piss the rest up a pub wall

lol lol .

[Andy]

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:yAxa-lJ8UOCRaM:http://www.office365.co.uk/im/pim/643417.jpg (http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.office365.co.uk/im/pim/643417.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.office365.co.uk/Books-Pads-Albums/571399-AA-London-SE.htm&usg=__dzja4T7vPq6S4XF85YBWmvq6q7A=&h=300&w=260&sz=48&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=yAxa-lJ8UOCRaM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Daa%2Broad%2Bmap%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26 sa%3DN) then piss the rest up a pub wall
You remind me of me lol

[mowgli]

You remind me of me lol

I don't know if I should be offended or not......:(

[Andy]

Nah thats just what my view/answer would be lol

[peester]

tomtom's need a bit of maintanance (regular software updates and charging up) with its software and 2 hr battery life.
Garmin's are more robust, reliable softwareand 4 hr battery..

Tomtom One V3 Classic (2007 model) £80ish or One V4 UK (2008 model) £99ish.

Garmin nuvi 200 (2007 model) £80ish or nuvi 205 for current model. £99ish.

[Adam]

Ive got a TomTom One v4, cost £96 from halfords iirc.
No real complaints, works well.

Did have a bit of a mess up when i was using it the other week, when your location arrow on the map just started randomly turning, and then it would keep re-calculating the route(even though i hadnt changed direction/road)
Switched it off and back on and that sorted it. Didnt happen again.

So all is good :)

[John]

Thanks dave/ad, went into halfords for a butchers today, bloke who worked there didn't have a clue about any of the sat navs on display, he couldn't even tell me if the tom tom came with a mount!
Been looking at the garmins, they look real easy to use.

[Adam]

Mine came with mount/car charger/usb cable/program cd

[Welsh Dan]

I've got a Tomtom 1 XL Europe. Battery life isnt too good but thats because I tend to leave it plugged in in the car when I'm using it. Came with a windscreen mount and incar charging cable. Its never failed me and I'm going to try the http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/ speed camera database on it alongside the tomtom one soon. You can get it for £105 (http://www.totalpda.co.uk/TomTom/TomTom-ONE-XL.6677.html)

http://www.xen0phobiak.f2s.com/novaload/onexl.jpg

I've only ever used one Garmin one, I think it was the entry level one but I found it slow, the screen hard to read and the unit hard to use.

[Adam]

That pocketGPS world database looks good, might download that onto mine if its free.

[peester]

bit pants to hear the odd halford staff helping us 'do a woolies'..
if ya need owt john use store locator on halfords.com, get the number - ring stafford store ask for me.
I say tomtom for good nav and features, or garmin for trusty plain ol' sat nav n thats it.

[AlexW]

I have used satnavs, but atm ive been using my phone, loaded with Tomtom software (Its a HTC phone running windows software) and a external Bluetooth GPS sensor. Its fine for me as it means i just leave the GPS sensor in the car.

Ive got to say though, i would recommend it, proper sat navs do have a few more features, faster and do seem to be worth the money.

PS: Preety pointless post on my count lol

[peester]

nah not pointless, - did john know he could have nav on his phone??
one day soon the phones will do a better job, probably

[John]

Thanks For your help here guys, i've ordered a garmin unit, going to pick it up in abit.......

[mowgli]

bit pants to hear the odd halford staff helping us 'do a woolies'..

have you ever tried to go into another halfords store as a customer???????

they don't have much of a clue in most of them........

even in the local one to me i get addressed as 'mate' when I do not know them & the moment I open a parts list up, they come round asking if I need advice.... then can't give it.

when I was a parts man, from 1989-1995, I made it my business to get to know the product, whatever it was, and any tips needed to fit the products & also any other things I could advise people to purchase, thus making the store money..........

[L14MNP]

Tom Toms are sh1t. Always getting it wrong. Garmin FTW.

lol Just seen you're buying a Garmin, I only read page one. Wise choice mate!

[Jack]

I've got a TomTom One Europ 22 as I needed the Euro maps. Its good, does what it needs to do and is pretty quick to calculate new routes and pick up satellites.

My colleague at work had a garmin and it kept coming up with "updating firmware" every 30 seconds lol

I also have Garmin XT on my phone, and thats pretty poo tbh. Tends to take odd routes and can't handle roundabouts lol

[mowgli]

Tends to take odd routes and can't handle roundabouts lol

perfect for a nova saloon driver then........

[Riggy]

i use tom tom 6 loaded onto my pda, never had a probleam with it ever , have used a few nav man's and a garmin and thoight they were poor imo ,

also got some free "amaze gps" on my phone ,seems to be ok at picking sats etc up , just not got a mount to try it in the car with lol