Maplin GPS for €159

JAMM222

Hi Just noticed maplin are having a sale and have a GPS system for €159

Here is the link to their UK site
http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=115145&TabID=1&source=1&doy=21m4

Let me know what ye think!:cool:

MarkR

Uses teleatlas maps which aren't supposed to be great. Have a look in the gps forum here for more info.

godtabh

Doesnt mention anything about irish maps

Psychobiker

These can be flashed with the TomTom mapping, as it's essentially a CE 4.2 PDA...even can revert back to the Windows desktop if you want! Just google Aytobe TomTom, up it'll come.

L

Standard Toaster

kearnsr wrote:

Doesnt mention anything about irish maps

Q) The description says that it covers all of the UK. Does this include Northern Ireland? (Some products say UK but mean GB) Thanks Jonathan - Jonathan Magee
A) Northern Ireland is included (not Eire)

Kristok

was in town today and asked about this its out of stock and they wont have them till next month some time. Can this defo be turned into tomtom ?

Kristok

The_Edge wrote:

Q) The description says that it covers all of the UK. Does this include Northern Ireland? (Some products say UK but mean GB) Thanks Jonathan - Jonathan Magee
A) Northern Ireland is included (not Eire)

Maplin in blanch have these in stock got one today. Was playing about with it a bit seems very good so far not that i have any previous experience using gps before. Its got Uk + Republic of Ireland maps on it even found my obscurely named road in dublin.

Pack came with a 512 card, car and home chargers, usb cable and suction thingy for the windscreen all for 163. Not bad at all. Now just got to find out if it is possible to put tomtom on it.

kittex

Looking at that myself but was put off by the lack of Irish maps (according to the FAQs for it anyway).

Let us know how you get on with it kristok!

joeswatch

I see that halfords have the route66 chicago 6000 gps using latest navteq (Ireland and the UK) at half price in their stores (though not online as I'm informed). Would work out at approx 180-190 euro as far as I can remember but unfortunately I'd need a GPS to navigate my dense gray matter. You'd have to check on halfords.com (prices in GBP).

Psychobiker

Guys...mine is on TomTom. Really easy to do

L

Cmar-Ireland

joeswatch wrote:

I see that halfords have the route66 chicago 6000 gps using latest navteq (Ireland and the UK) at half price in their stores (though not online as I'm informed). Would work out at approx 180-190 euro as far as I can remember but unfortunately I'd need a GPS to navigate my dense gray matter. You'd have to check on halfords.com (prices in GBP).

Do you know which halfords stores have these?

redfan

bought this as an unboxed item.....it is missing loads of streets.flash to tomtom advice needed thanks

phill106

any idea on how good this is?
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10151&productId=243335&categoryId=80865


half price, and i have vouchers!

byte

phill106 wrote:

any idea on how good this is?
http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10001&langId=-1&catalogId=10151&productId=243335&categoryId=80865


half price, and i have vouchers!

That one has TeleAtlas mapping, supposed to be inferior to Navteq mapping (for Ireland anyway)

sdanseo

byte wrote:

That one has TeleAtlas mapping, supposed to be inferior to Navteq mapping (for Ireland anyway)

It also has a speed camera detector and is illegal in Ireland if it works - although it's unlikely that it would have camera data for RoI, presumably? If not then it's not an issue.

Kristok

Got tomtom 6 to work on this which is much better than the included software/maps. Would highly recommend this gps now.

And there is no speed camera data available for Ireland on any gps apparently.

craichoe

sdonn_1 wrote:

It also has a speed camera detector and is illegal in Ireland if it works - although it's unlikely that it would have camera data for RoI, presumably? If not then it's not an issue.

Theres no GPS navigation unit that has a laser or radar detector built in to it. However most GPS units have a Speed Camera database, theres non here because we have little or no fixed speed cameras.

darkmaster2

I got one of those "ay to be" units in maplin today. It was €165 and can be easily converted to a tomtom using the info here

Grand little piece of kit for the money. The default maps are rubbish though mind, you will need to do the tomtom conversion for good irish coverage.

Standard Toaster

Got one myself and am running TomTom 6 with the latest West European maps.
You can edit the autorun and boot to a WinCE desktop too which is sweet.

Cheers OP

lafors

Just got one, tt here I come.
Maps that come with it worked well...till I got to lucan

Frank@Work

If you convert this to TomTom, can you do the custom voices thingy i've seen some ppl talking about?

jaceq

If You convert it to TOMTOM You can do everything what You can in TOMTOM

lafors

Anyone know how to get rid of the start menu bar from the bottom of the win ce screen, I did the hide the bar option but then i couldn't get it back...so had to start again.
It would be handy for full screen apps with selection buttons at the bottom (i.e. that the start bar hides)

darkmaster2

I think I just pressed the show desktop icon on the right hand side of the taskbar.

Kristok

lafors wrote:

Just got one, tt here I come.
Maps that come with it worked well...till I got to lucan

yea they worked well for me too till i got to ballymun and it told me to go through the 2 round abouts that havnt been there for years.

lafors

darkmaster2 wrote:

I think I just pressed the show desktop icon on the right hand side of the taskbar.

Cool works a treat

Mods, any chance of linking this to the GPS forum?
I'm sure they'd be interested seeing as its a gps topic.

Frank@Work

Just checked the Blanch store and they say they're sold out.
Ah well, must be quicker next time.

lafors

Frank@Work wrote:

Just checked the Blanch store and they say they're sold out.
Ah well, must be quicker next time.

Ah crap, they had 7 left, i got one so that left 6 yesterday at about 1pm.
You could try to get it online from maplin.co.uk??

Frank@Work

lafors wrote:

Ah crap, they had 7 left, i got one so that left 6 yesterday at about 1pm.
You could try to get it online from maplin.co.uk??

They're sold out online, I'd say they allocated the ones left for online sales, or they got scooped up.

Guy's as far as I know this device is called 'AyToBe', but can anyone tell me the model ID? I'm gonna try eBay, cos I'm interested in the adding of WinCE / TomTom ability... Thanks.

gary the great

Anyone know if an Evesham AA anvigator Vive can be converted to Tom Tom? Also were yis all getting your AA software ?

Standard Toaster

Frank@Work wrote:

Guy's as far as I know this device is called 'AyToBe', but can anyone tell me the model ID? I'm gonna try eBay, cos I'm interested in the adding of WinCE / TomTom ability... Thanks.

Your right...it's this one:
www.aytobe.com

On the back of mine it says "ATB083"

Ebay