Any personal recomendations for a Sat Nav for the car?

It has to cover the UK and european maps or have tha ability to do so and must be able to give speed camera warnings. Also nice and easy to mount in the car witha mount that isn't obvious to the world.

Ta

Any personal recomendations for a Sat Nav for the car?

It has to cover the UK and european maps or have tha ability to do so and must be able to give speed camera warnings. Also nice and easy to mount in the car witha mount that isn't obvious to the world.

Ta

I'm an ex tomtom 300 and tomtom 700 owner' date=' sold them both (wifes and my own car) and bought Nuvi's

garmin nuvi 350, does all the above, fits in a shirt pocket, very discreet bracket, full post code search for UK, European maps included, speed camera POI's availalbe free from Garmin :thumbup: :thumbup:

Clicky

Garmin Nuvi 350

I have the use of one and it is the canines undercarriage

Bought the cheapy Garmin i3.Which is still great.

Couldn't do a long journey with any sat nav though.Helpful yet annoying.

Bought the cheapy Garmin i3.Which is still great.

Couldn't do a long journey with any sat nav though.Helpful yet annoying.

Turn off the voice prompts :eek:

Recently bought the Indago by Snooper, seems to be a good unit so far. Like the slim compactness for pocket/Handbag(wifes not mine) storage.

Not the cheapest

I was eying up the Garmins already but wanted an opinion on them.

Just need to find them at a reasonable price now.

I'm going with a TomTom GO 510 which has speed camera alerts, just waiting for Comet.co.uk to contact me about delivery!!!

tomtom go 300 @ 150 quid from fleabay... Bargain

I have an original Tom Tom Go which I have had about 3 years. I have just updated the map and it is still superb.

The Tom Tom 300, 500, and 700 are outgoing models and currently represent brilliant value.

W*nkers down here were hiding a mobile camera on an uphill dual carriage way which for some reason has a 30 limit on it!

Road image here with the damn van at a previous date:

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/van103.jpg

Anyway does anyonemake a satnav system with GPS speed camera things on it that also has a laser detector or is it two seperate systems.

Yes, Snooper Indago or Road Angel Navigator

Looked at them and neither seem to have a laser detector built in, just a database of the locations of possible mobile things (bit like the talex).

Is it an optional item for them?

Looking around it seems to be that the laser detectors just tell you you have been done :(

Oh well, just have to be more careful and look at my speedo more than pay attention to the road then.

i just bought the navman 520 for £129 - was £399

postcode search, POI, download speed camera locations too. tells u where banks, restaurants, petrol stations are too - also fits in shirt with a nice carry case.

oh and its touch screen - pc world sell it on line

halfords sell it for £189, but also do a price promise

I have been running a PDA with tomtom 3 on it which i must say is ten times better than the ****, the manufactuor version....Mio Map.

Especially when you go to pocketgps.com and download their free speed camera databse!

The onlky oe thing i dislike about it doesn't have laser detector but the database has a list of all mobile speedcamera sites so i am just careful around them.

The Mio168 was 225, but recently i have seen for it as cheap as 125, ebay sells tomtom discs for these pda's for 10 quid a bargin all in i reckon!! and you can do all the work expenses, outlook, and internet on it too!!!

I have just purchased the I-mate mobile phone that i will be upload all software to so the mio will be redundant

W*nkers down here were hiding a mobile camera on an uphill dual carriage way which for some reason has a 30 limit on it!

Road image here with the damn van at a previous date:

http://www.speedcam.co.uk/van103.jpg

Anyway does anyonemake a satnav system with GPS speed camera things on it that also has a laser detector or is it two seperate systems.

I hate cameras but does this really look like it is hiding ?

Tom Tom one has or did have a laser detector that works but once it goes off chances are you have already been caught

Tom Tom 910, the best. Also you solve your problems with hands free phone, if you have blueetoth.

I'm told that Tom Tom's use unreliable map's, whereas the Sony I am getting tomorrow use Navteq maps, the best in the business...............so says the Sony salesman:rofl:

I've got a tomtom one and they have just brought out the Europe version that I wish I had waited for:rolleyes:

Just a thought, but I have never seen a static or mobile cameras outside of the areas that have warnings for them.

We got a Tomtom 910 yesterday, seems really good. The bluetooth is a good addition. The other advantage is that the 910 uses a large harddisk so you can also play MP3's or store photos on it.

I have an HP iPAQ hx4700 which has a superb 4 inch screen:) . That means I can actually see the map display. I have a bluetooth gps receiver, which came with the copliot and seems to be good.

I've got an SD card slot and a Flash card slot, so with the right cards could store 8gb easily of music, video or photo.

However, I am unhappy with the current offerings of GPS systems:( .

I started with Copilot 6.

Its mapping is good, mostly. (It has some roads that no longer exist, and its POIs are poor. Too many petrol stations that are closed)

Its postcode search is good, mostly. In town, brilliant 7 digit search. Out of town, cannot rely on it becasue postcodes out in the sticks cover too big an area. Not Copilot's fault, that is just the way the system works.

Its routing is abysmal. It always takes you through town centres if htere is an A road. COming down to London Docklands airport, it took me down the A1, which has stop lights and speed cameras. Copilot still told me an ETA based on 60mph - well it is an A road!

It has a great desktop assistant, so I can plan a route on teh PC.

Its not so easy to update POIs or the wonderful pocketgps database of safety cameras

Now I use TomTom 5.

Its routing is great. It uses the roads I would choose - bypasses, etc. No problem there.

Its address search is dreadful. I visited a relation in Wales. I found hte village OK, and picked the street from the choices for that village. Tom TOm took me to a street with the same name in the next village 4 miles away. Whilst the street I wanted was on hte map (so I found it eventually) it was NOT in the index. So there was no way I could find it either from a postcode search or from an address search. Poor to say the least.

Its postcode search is dreadful. Its only 4 digits - the first bit before hte space.

Its easy to load voices - but I have gone back to the defalut 'cos they are rubbish.

Its easy to load the camera database from pocketgps.

About a week after I got the latest veersion, tehy launched tomtom 6. I'm very war of it.

What surprises me is that the web sites of these manufacturers don;t let you see the system in use first. Second thoughts, i am not surprised as i would not have bought one.

To be honest, make sure you have a good map with you, check your destination, and do not forget :-

"To err is human, but to really **** it up needs a computer"