Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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Reccomend me one...
£200 max
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Anything Garmin.
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Jake
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Registered: 24th Jan 05
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tomtom one 87quid
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Steve X16XE
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Registered: 31st Dec 06
Location: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
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TomTom. Much easier to use.
For £200 you'll get one that'll do europe.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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How is a Garmin diffcult to use?
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Daveskater
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Registered: 29th Apr 08
Location: Oxford, UK Drives: Jap wagon
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I'm a Navman kinda guy, borrowed a TomTom and didn't like it as much.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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CorsAsh
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Registered: 19th Apr 02
Location: Munich
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Been looking for one for Dad sub £200. He wants it with Bluetooth and Euro maps. Only one that fitted the bill was the Garmin 760:
Garmin
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Get a tomtom one Europe XL for under £150.
People that have navmans will say, get a navman.
If they have Garmins, they'll say, get a garmin..... theres bugger all difference between them tbh
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CorsAsh
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quote: Originally posted by pow
How is a Garmin diffcult to use?
I was impressed, almost as fast and easy to use as my inbuilt one.
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Ben J
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That stupid radio advert puts me off Garmin....
"Give a, give a, give a Garmin...."
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Whittie
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quote: Originally posted by CorsAsh
quote: Originally posted by pow
How is a Garmin diffcult to use?
I was impressed, almost as fast and easy to use as my inbuilt one.
Your one was pretty easy to be fair
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JonnyJ
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quote: Originally posted by pow
Anything Garmin.
I concur
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CorsAsh
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I forgot you'd seen it
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mwg
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Location: South Lakes
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I have a TomTom and my Dad has a Garmin. Both do the job. Garmin is thinner than my TomTom but guess thats cos I got mine a few years ago.
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Ben J
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quote: Originally posted by Whittie
Get a tomtom one Europe XL for under £150.
People that have navmans will say, get a navman.
If they have Garmins, they'll say, get a garmin..... theres bugger all difference between them tbh
I have been looking at the Tom Tom XL Europe...my Dad has the same one.
£130 on Amazon.
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Fad
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Registered: 1st Feb 01
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Last year I got a Tomtom 1 with european maps easy to use and gets us through Germany just fine
Had use of a Garmin through work and even though its not what you can call bad its no where near ergonomic or visually as good as the tomtom
[Edited on 06-01-2009 by Fad]
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tom_simes
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From working with them and selling them for about 3 years, I'd say get a TomTom or Garmin - there are extremely small differences between the two tbh.
I wouldn't get a Navman at all, I'd rather a map - the reliability is very poor, they are slow moving through screens and generally no where near as intuitive as the other two leading brands.
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stubbsy05
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I gotta TomTom One UK. Will be wanting a europe one soon though. Not sure how much the europe maps cost to download?
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Ben J
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Ordered a Tom Europe XL with Traffic
Not sure what the traffic bit is??!!
[Edited on 06-01-2009 by Ben J]
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Fad
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updates you with hot spot information which is shares with other sat navs. Usually you have to subscribe to it
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Daveskater
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quote: Originally posted by CorsAsh
He wants it with Bluetooth and Euro maps
What does the bluetooth bit do?
quote: Originally posted by Whittie
People that have navmans will say, get a navman.
If they have Garmins, they'll say, get a garmin.....
That's true, but my mate has an F series Navman and it's not as good as my dad's N series. I still preferred them over the TomTom though, but haven't used a Garmin.
Numberwang!
Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men
Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle
Look at my pictures
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CorsAsh
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So he can use it as a handsfree too.
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Graham88
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I have a TomTom XL, not sure what one, but they're £125 in Halfords atm
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Mo
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not all models of tomtoms with bluetooth are for handsfree. the basic models have bluetooth just so u can use the 'tomtom service' such as weather, traffic etc
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AcidK1
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screw tomtom, if you want real GPS Garmin is the way, i got the Garmin nuvi for £100 and itll do pretty much all europe as it would britain. If it goes wrong you can take it back with no hassle and they give you a new one, tom tom charge you to fix it. Garmin do all types of GPS and supply the SAS i think.
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