Im considering buying a sav nav for hubby, but what will i get for around the £100 mark? ........ is there anything out there worth buying for a hundred quid?

you can get this sat nav that knows where traffic jams and shizzle are.

I think it's called IQ.

Im considering buying a sav nav for hubby, but what will i get for around the £100 mark? ........ is there anything out there worth buying for a hundred quid?



Tom tom every time:cool::thumbsup:

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/categorydisplay_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_cate goryId_165508_langId_-1

Can't go wrong with a Nuvi. TomTom suck b***s next to the Nuvi sat navs ive used....

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-0239.aspx

My £80 cheapy RAC one does the job great! Most of them have an update feature where you download the latest routes anyway :)

Navmans are excellent but expensive to update.

Anything but a Garmin in protest at their new radio advert doing the rounds at the moment, which is the most annoying radio advert I have ever heard. Everyone I know with a Tom Tom seems fairly happy.

For the money, a Navigon is great value if you can get hold of one (they're big in the states but not yet in Europe). Navigon 2100 got me round 3,500 miles in the US this summer without much trouble. They're much cheaper than Garmin/TomTom equivalents. Kicking myself a bit for selling that, I'm shopping for one at the moment with European maps.

TomTom One is the best satnav on the market.

thank you for the help, looks like im shopping for a tom tom :)

TomTom One is the best satnav on the market.

They only come with maps for one country... but I have heard good things about these and TomToms in general are very good if a bit pricy.

dont bother with one. they direct you into a river and arnt worth the hassle , having to shove it up your arse every time you park up.

I've personally never had that issue. Obly problems I have with my tomtom one is it says bare instead of turn which gets on my tits a bit for some reason and it does sometimes take you on a wild goose chase. But overall it's worth having one just use in conjunction with common sense, make sure it'd not leading you to one way roads etc.

What is the best all round sat nav, and how much will i need to pay?

Yea... I had a couple of problems very occasionally with them sending me 400 miles down a dirt track in the wrong direction... but it's pretty obvious when it happens! I think satnavs are great, wouldn't drive without one.

You should go for a Garmin. They are a lot better then Tomtoms (you are mainky paying for the brand name) and have a lot more satellites (they use old millitary ones). They are really good to buy at the mo as there are a lot of sales on. When I got mine about 8 months ago it cost about £120, but I know for a fact that you can get them much cheaper now. I think that Halfords has a sat nav sale at the mo too.

Happy hunting! :)

have a lot more satellites (they use old millitary ones).

Are you talking about WAAS / EGNOS (http://www8.garmin.com/aboutGPS/waas.html)? It doesn't seem to add much in real-world (http://www.poi-factory.com/node/8282) usage.

Personally I have an elderly tomtom that works just fine. Don't know much about garmin etc but would consider them if I ever upgrade. Best advice is to get down to a shop and try the units out for yourself, also download the manuals to see how the more complex things (multi point routes etc) are handled.

For the money, a Navigon is great value if you can get hold of one (they're big in the states but not yet in Europe).

Halfords have got some Navigon satnavs in their half price sale: the 1200 is £70 and the 2200 is £100, with UK and Ireland preloaded, according to a leaflet which came through the door a day or two ago.

Halfords have got some Navigon satnavs in their half price sale: the 1200 is £70 and the 2200 is £100, with UK and Ireland preloaded, according to a leaflet which came through the door a day or two ago.

Shop around though, halfords are overpriced.

I have the basic TomTom and its a little life saver. It really depends how technical you want to get.

I've had 3 Garmin, seem to have less problems than asll of my friends with TOMTOM

Was looking at a Medion GPS in Aldi last month:

Free lifetime TMC, Western Europe coverage, speed camera locations, speed advisor - which seemed to tick all my boxes - all for £130. Didn't buy one in the end, partly because it's Aldi and not one of the big names.
http://tinyurl.com/642oe5

Two questions - is there anything else I should be looking for, and anyone know if Aldi/Medion are a reasonably reliable brand? £130 was the price-range I was looking at...

TomTom all the way :)

Two questions - is there anything else I should be looking for, and anyone know if Aldi/Medion are a reasonably reliable brand? £130 was the price-range I was looking at...

Aldi's Medion / Tevion is very good quality stuff. They offer a no-quibble three year warranty on just about anything from these brands.

Well after reading all this thread I've now decided to buy my hubby a TomTom but which one - there's loads!

Comet seem to have a good one but not sure if its an old one or if that matters it says it has text to speech which the other tom toms don't seem to have but I've no idea what text to speech is - any ideas out there?

Also - polite replies only to this one - does size matter? 3.5 or 4.5?

And do I need live traffic?

Hi Coppertop :)

I've had Tomtom since they came out and have updated the software when ever its released, ahem. Size in my opinion is not important, it's what you do with it lol.
When I 1st bought mine it was based on a PDA (HP IPAQ2110) and it was the latest thing about 7 years or so ago costing me about £400 with the window cill bluetooth unit.
These days everything has changed, nearly everything has bluetooth, 99% of mobiles and it's pretty cheap now getting a bluetooth CD player for the car.
So..
Where I stand now is, I have the TomTom software installed on my mobile phone, my mobile phone has built in GPS (Satellite Pickup Hardware) built in (Nokia N95). The phone I've had to really hack to bits to make the internal GPS work with TomTom, as the TomTom software does not recognise the GPS function of the phone, you have to program the phone to turn the unit into a bluetooth device, then use a re-engineered TomTom that has an option for ...... well, it goes on and on. My phone then bluetooths to the car so the driving instructions are bellowed out to me in surround sound lol (instructs even if I'm playing music via bluetooth from phone to car-stereo cool).

What I'm getting at is the size. My original TomTom on the PDA was a screen of about 5x3 inches, my phone is about 1.5x2.5 and in my opinion is as effective as the big screen. You only really look at the screen when the software talks to you to make a manoeuvre, otherwise your watching the road. Hmm It's bad if the sound goes Pete Tong, as you can imagine.

Look out more for the processing speed of the unit, ask the monkeys in the store. I don't think bigger screen makes for a faster processor. You would have to let me know which model you were thinking of so I could look into it.

Also, I found the very early version better for the speed camera warning, as that part of it wasn't a TomTom feature, on the PDA it was an aftermarket add on which gave the distance to the camera in TIME rather than YARDS/METERS. Imagine, you're driving down a road and your unit says "400 yards to speed camera" but normally you have just a TONE set for that. Now on the other-hand you have a version that says "SPEED CAMERA IN 10 SECONDS). This is better as now no matter how fast you're travelling you have time to adjust your speed for the camera. If it says "400 yards to speed camera" you could have driven past the thing before it finishes its sentence. Get my drift? No matter weather you're doing 200mph or 5mph the GPS tells you when you'll be at the camera pretty accurately. If you're 400 yards away in dead slow traffic you could forget it ever said anything, traffic speeds up, POOF lol.

Sorry, quite long winded there :hihi: