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Q. Sat Nav recommendations, TomTom??

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oxford_hippo

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Hi,
thinking about buying a sat nav,

like the Tom Tom 510 as it also has blue tooth - so should act as a handfree for the car ( accademic given car is a cabrio, and once roof is down little chance of talking![8|]

anyone any views on the Tom Tom510 - or a better / alternative option.

Roadangle 6000 looks good . . . . . . but no blue tooth.
( also like download-able voices for the Tom Tom - but that's purely the toy-factor part of the equation[8D]
Thanks
Tim[&:]
 
I have both a Tomtom and a Becker (indianapolis).

I bought the TomTom portable unit that talks (via bluetooth) to any decent PDA Phone because (a) I did not want a bulky device I'd be tempted to leave in car and get a window smashed and (b) I wanted to be able to use it in rental cars I pick up at airports.

I bought the Becker because it totally matches the 993 dash.

So, which to recommend. Depends why you want it.

  • The Becker find sensible routes, the TomTom tries to get me to make impossible turns.
  • The TomTom has speed cameras (with auto downloaded updates via the phone it's talking to anyway), the Becker does not have speed cameras and does not really have any easy way to update it's maps
  • The Tomtom needs the downloaded voices because the ones it comes with irritate me, the Becker has only two (but I fancy the woman)
  • I think the Tomtom maps are perhaps a bit more detailed (eg I have never not found a street with it whereas the Becker seems to have a couple of my local roads missing) - pity the TomTom does not make better use of them.
Hope this helps
 
Hi

I've had the 993 for 4 years. When I first had the car it was used everyday for work and as such I fitted a 'Parrot blue tooth' hands free. Two speeding fines later I also decided to fit an Origin B2 GPS system. Both were neat installations but I was always conscious of their presence.

Last weekend I was looking at some form of Sat Nav system but was put off by the fact that here was going to be yet another device to be fitted. A search on the internet has solved all my problems. I have aquired a Garmin Nuvi 610T. It is a fantastic navagation unit that not only contains blue tooth for the phone but also has the Cyclops safety camera data base. The charging lead also has an fm reception device that updates any planned route with up to the minute traffic congestion data.
I purchased the unit from Comet for just over £250. If you don't want to use the lead the unit has a battery life of between 4 and 7 hours.I have removed all the previous wiring for the Parrot and Origin and in battery mode there is nothing at all to see except the Navi unit which can be swapped from car to car. It's great.

I am not easily impressed but this device has really won me over.

Mike Cooper
 
I just bought a TomTom One V2 and for the whole of Europe on Amazon was only £175 with free delivery.

The size is great and it has free traffic cameras. I Have used a Navman and the built in Vauxhall GPS but the Tomtom is great.
 
Hi Tim

I bought a Tom Tom One. I've no complaints at all - although i only have UK maps it's easy to download extras from the toTom site, which I have done with the camera database.

It's also brilliant for spicing up journeys on unfamilar roads. Last weekend we went out for a mooch around, somehow ended up in Bognor Regis, had fish and chips for lunch then set the tom tom for home via "the shortest route". It was brilliant! A beautiful route down a variety of very quiet roads, and no traffic jams at all.

Cheers
 
I have a 964 with a Garmin unit which fits superbly below the heater/dash and all cables can be hidden behind it. It looks like a fitted unit as there is no space around it. Good system, easy to get Euro maps. No camera info. I use a Road Angel. OK. No good for Camera Vans, but what is.
 
thanks for all the feedback[:)],

main question is ref. the Bluetooth telephone link, as that was what was taking me to a BTm Tom compared to a RoadAngel navigator:

we've got an old classic road angel ( workls fine once it's warmed up[:mad:] ), but prefer the idea of a tidier dash without a road angel as well as a sat nav,

and in greedy fashion want a blue tooth GPS for hand=free phone use[:D]

I've seen dash-top blue tooth kits from Vodafone - just for your telephone ( not GPS ) that seem designed to clip to the sun-visor - Anyone know if these are any good?? - as Blue tooth was the main selling point of the TomTom 510 v. the Roadangel 'Navigator 6000'
Loking at www.Pricerunner.co.uk the Navigator 6000 is about £175, and seems a better bet than a TomTom 1, ?[8|]

Mike - thanksfor Garmin recommendation - will go and try one out, can it download extra voices - obviously a vital criteria![:D]


 
Not sure on the extra voice download. I've tried to go onto their website but it seems to be down at the moment. If you go onto it you can download any of the user manuals for any of their products. When I am back home at the weekend I'll have a look through the manual.

Regards

Mike
 
For info I recently bought a Road Angel Navigator 7000 from John Lewis for £179 - good price.

Went for this one as it combines a GPS camera locator with the sat nav. It's also weatherproof so am now looking into a mount for my bike. Oh, the battery life is also very good.

Other units have much better map dispalys though.
 
ORIGINAL: oxford_hippo

Hi,
thinking about buying a sat nav,

like the Tom Tom 510 as it also has blue tooth - so should act as a handfree for the car ( accademic given car is a cabrio, and once roof is down little chance of talking![8|]

anyone any views on the Tom Tom510 - or a better / alternative option.

Roadangle 6000 looks good . . . . . . but no blue tooth.
( also like download-able voices for the Tom Tom - but that's purely the toy-factor part of the equation[8D]
Thanks
Tim[&:]
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Tom Tom all the way,

Fast processor, clear screen, blue tooth is very helpful and you'd be surprised how loud you can turn it up so even with the hood down at reasonable speeds you may hear it.
 
Before I realised some Tom Toms had bluetooth, i put in a Pioneer head unit with Bluetooth phone connectivity. It's excellent. Actually, Halfords are doing a sony head unit foir about £125 fitted - I'm slinging one in my pickup next week. Obviously the phone sound plays thru your stereo speakers - i don't know how the Tom tom sounds in this repect but as a fully fledged cloth-ears, i need high volume and the head unit provides it!
 
Ola,

I have a Tom Tom 510. Have been impressed with user interface and its brilliant for navigation. However, the Bluetooth phone link is poor (IMHO)....it is virtually useless without the attached microphone (another lead to route round the car). There are known problems with the Traffic update and datalink. (They admitted this to me on the phone). The traffic camera update is patchy. The Tom Tom is still indicating mobile cameras at Jct 18-19 M4 Roadworks and these finished some 3-4 months ago.

If you real want the Bluetooth Handsfree element I would look elsewhere.

As a Nav device its brilliant...and the downloaded Silvia voice is well worth the amusement.

Hope this helps

 
I agree with Mike's comments about Garmin. It's well worth taking a look and it is still audible with the hood down unless you're going at a seriously illegal speed. [;)]
 
i have tom tom plus road angel in bmw and road angel nav in the cayman s-nice to only have one gadget but the screen/maps not so good and slower than tomtom
 
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