Decent Sat Nav <£100?

[inlineadam]

Hey all!

I live on an Island so i don't get off onto the " mainland " Uk too often, so when i do i'm quite unfamiliar with where to go!

Im therefore after a decent Sat-Nav for <£100 which will get me from A to B..... not one of these ones where a C is involved preferably!

My dad has a sat-nav that i sometimes use but it tells you where to go AFTER your passed it


I looked at theGarmin Nüvi265W.


Any ideas?

Thanks!

Adam

 

[Ricardodaforce]

Hey all!

I live on an Island so i don't get off onto the " mainland " Uk too often, so when i do i'm quite unfamiliar with where to go!

Im therefore after a decent Sat-Nav for <£100 which will get me from A to B..... not one of these ones where a C is involved preferably!

My dad has a sat-nav that i sometimes use but it tells you where to go AFTER your passed it

I looked at theGarmin Nüvi265W.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Adam

Have you looked to see if your mobile phone has the facility?

 

[inlineadam]

Have you looked to see if your mobile phone has the facility?

My phone is ancient lol ....

Getting a new phone around christmas though

 

[neil_g]

google for tomtom in shopping, i picked up a refurb basic model for the OH for £78 i think it was.

edit - this one http://www.caraudiodiscount.com/start-edition-mapping-p-18799.html doesnt say its a refurb but it came in an offical tomtom factory refurb box.

 

[Di Stone]

I picked up a Garmin Nuvi 1200 from Halfords last week and have found it to be easy to use. Helped a great deal with trying to negotiate Birmingham in the total dark when lashing it down outside Just over the £70 with a carrying case as well.

Di

 

[daza]

I picked up a second hand tom tom for 80 on the bay might be worth a look as the older units seem far more intuitive that these newer ones

 

[straycat]

tom tom are very good i can vouch for that

 

[daza]

They are indeed the 3 year old map on mine got me from birmingham to the new forest with a couple of diversions that through me .................. and no I didnt look at a road sign once as I was to busy with the rain.

 

[inlineadam]

Thanks for the replies.


Tomtom seem quite popular - anytime i'm on holiday the taxi drivers and coach drivers always have on!

ANy specific tomtom models?

 

[Flash In The Pan]

tom tom are very good i can vouch for that

Mine has taken to send me down single track roads and on 40 mile detours for no reason, I'm just waiting to hear John Cleese say "in 200 yards, stop, roll down your window and ask directions"

 

[neil_g]

Mine has taken to send me down single track roads and on 40 mile detours for no reason, I'm just waiting to hear John Cleese say "in 200 yards, stop, roll down your window and ask directions"

mine did when i went to scotland last, there was grass in the middle of one road

99% of the time its fine though, common sense should be retained when following the suggested route though.

 

[tdodd]

If your new phone will run Android then take a look at the free offline mapping software - Navmii. It seems pretty good to me, and I have a paid copy of CoPilot Live Premium (a disappointing, but slowly improving, product) and experience of Google navigation and TomTom with which to compare.

http://getsatisfaction.com/navmii/topics/android_release

So far I've only used it for basic A-B route planning, but it matched TomTom for route, mileage and ETA over a 100 mile journey.

 

[neil_g]

If you're getting android the built in navigation is actually pretty good

 

[tdodd]

Yes, but it uses a data connection, which you may not wish to use depending on your data plan, especially when abroad, and in isolated areas where it may not work at all.