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Best SatNav out there?

  • 02-10-2013 9:44am
    #1
    keano25
    Registered Users Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭


    Whats your best option to buy at the moment and why?

    Not too pushed on having Bluetooth or any of that in it.. just navigation really.


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  • #2
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tomtom XXL is very good in my opinion. 119 in Argos.
    http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/5043756/Trail/searchtext%3ETOMTOM.htm
    Watch some review on youtube or similar.


  • #3
    ekevosu
    Registered Users Posts: 987 ✭✭✭ekevosu


    Are Garmin maps not considered better or are they much the same?


  • #4
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Tbh, when it comes to Garmin/Tomtom etc it's very much a matter of preference.
    Garmin are supposed to be more up-to-date (supposedly) that Tomtom but unless you're a truck driver driving on the main roads all day every day it wouldn't be much of an issue.


  • #5
    bogman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,327 ✭✭✭bogman


    Was in Serbia on the motorcycle in August using a 3 year old Garmin Zumo 660 with updated lifetime maps, met some Italians with new TomTom Riders on the latest maps, I had full coverage of all roads, they had only the very major roads mapped, in the mountains where I met them they were relying on ordinary maps as no roads were displayed, Garmin, the only job whatever you say about them


  • #6
    brokenarms
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    Still hard to beat Google on my android galaxy s3. As long as you have a decent unlimited package. Garmin nuvi 50 is my daily runner for work as a delivery driver. Far from faultless.


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  • #7
    munchkin_utd
    Registered Users Posts: 7,813 ✭✭✭munchkin_utd


    brokenarms wrote: »
    Still hard to beat Google on my android galaxy s3. As long as you have a decent unlimited package. Garmin nuvi 50 is my daily runner for work as a delivery driver. Far from faultless.
    indeed, but next to useless when abroad and even when you have stored routes you wont have the traffic info so far from ideal.

    and even when in your home country, how does it cope with lack of reception which is fairly frequent when going cross country? has it a buffer of the route when you setup the route?


  • #8
    brokenarms
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    munchkin_utd wrote: »
    indeed, but next to useless when abroad and even when you have stored routes you wont have the traffic info so far from ideal.

    and even when in your home country, how does it cope with lack of reception which is fairly frequent when going cross country? has it a buffer of the route when you setup the route?

    Personally on my phone, I have loads of memory with the mini sd . So I have saved the google maps on my phone. I work on a catchment area that has fairly good 3G anyways.
    My argument with Garmin is:
    Why cant we use a better mapping company other than Navteq.
    Why cant we overlap google map via the mobile internet so we can use businesses names and landmarks in the search terms.

    These seem like things the mobile phone market have done years ago, yet dedicated satnavs are simply years behind. The Tech is there .

    If it was not for the ergonomics and functionality of the Garmin hardware , they would be gone from my cab.


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