Bart
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Registered: 19th Aug 02
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im thinking of getting my first sat nav.
I've never ever looked at any of them, but heard mixed things about different ones.
in my head im thinking tom tom or garmin, but no nowt about any sat nav.
Can anyone recommend a fairly decent one? ideally under £150, and ideally with speed camera detection, although nethier absolutly necessary.
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Tommy L
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http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=428336
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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I have the Navman S50 and used it all weekend for the first time. I really can't fault it, well worth the £130 in Tesco. Has all that speed camera lark too, even Red Light cameras and Average Speed ones.
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Mad Moe
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Registered: 14th Jun 01
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TomTom Go and add the speed Cameras for about £15/year
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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a) geek day
b) tomtom one
c) torrent site for free speed cameras
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Bart
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they have tom tom 910 on ebay for £149, are they better than the one uk?
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p4uls corsa
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tomtom one, very easy to use, had mine 3 years and never had any problems.
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Nath
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Fuck the tomtom off, Navman has all the speed cameras on there and warns you if your are speeding beforehand.
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Mad Moe
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quote:
Originally posted by Bart
they have tom tom 910 on ebay for £149, are they better than the one uk?
The 910 is a discontinued model
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Mad Moe
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quote:
Originally posted by Nath
Fuck the tomtom off, Navman has all the speed cameras on there and warns you if your are speeding beforehand.
As does the TomTom
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Tommy L
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quote:
Originally posted by Nath
Fuck the tomtom off, Navman has all the speed cameras on there and warns you if your are speeding beforehand.
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Bart
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the 910's are still available on ebay for very cheap!
surely they're worth considering if all im gonna be updating is the maps?
[Edited on 12-05-2008 by Bart]
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Mad Moe
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Originally posted by Bart
720 on ebay for £170. thats gotta be the way forward..?
I've got the 720 and it's an awesome piece of kit, all of Europe street mapping and safety cameras as well as bluetooth for your phone which is quite handy
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by Mad Moe
quote:
Originally posted by Nath
Fuck the tomtom off, Navman has all the speed cameras on there and warns you if your are speeding beforehand.
As does the TomTom
quote:
Originally posted by Mad Moe
TomTom Go and add the speed Cameras for about £15/year
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa_tomtom
quote:
Originally posted by Nath
Fuck the tomtom off, Navman has all the speed cameras on there and warns you if your are speeding beforehand.
Not you babe xx
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Mad Moe
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Or you can get the 520, 720 or 920 with them preloaded. I only mentioned the Tom Tom Go as it is the cheaper unit.
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Jules S
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quote:
Originally posted by p4uls corsa
tomtom one, very easy to use, had mine 3 years and never had any problems.
Tom Tom ones are bloody useless...unless you fancy a sat nav system putting you 100 or so miles out of your way lol
In the Uk, I would suggest getting an old fashioned map out and then using a sat nav for the last 10 miles or so to find the post code.
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Nath
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Navman S50 FTW 
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Mad Moe
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Also the Navman looks gash and is no where near as user friendly in my opinion
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Bart
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think im gonna buy the 910 off Ebay tomorrow for £150 unless anyone has a good reason not to get the discontinued model?
By the looks of it, its just been superseeded by the 920 which is retailing at £350.
So long as i can update the maps, the 910 looks like last years high end model.
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Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by Mad Moe
Also the Navman looks gash and is no where near as user friendly in my opinion
There's a shock 
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Nath
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
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Tomtom Go
Navman S50:
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Lynny
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totally dont trust the speed camera warnings on them, we were sat in work once having our lunch and someone had satnav sat on the table, suddenly lit up saying that we were approaching a speed camera 
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IntaCepta
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I ended up going for a cheap medion 510t from ebay for £60 which was cheap for a gps back then. The software is really good on that, but if you prefer the tomtom software, you can just install it as it uses WinCE.
You can also install other WinCE applications etc providing you have the meeeggabyttes!! A little work required but I guess tomtom's are pretty cheap nowadays.
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Bart
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thanks guys. I think im gonna get the 910 off ebay today. Looks like a top model heavily reduced because its discontinued.
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