What car GPS?

[Woodworks]

iphone is the worst option for satnav; where the Nokia Lumias score way better (the old N8 satnav was even better). Only ever had tomtoms in car, garmin?

 

So you reckon the Tomtom is still a good bit of kit TCD?

[mendiplogs]

So you reckon the Tomtom is still a good bit of kit TCD?

 

HI WOOD TOMTOM better then garmin mate thanks jon

[djbobbins]

We've got TomTom and it's good but map upgrades are silly expensive (about £40 IIRC) and won't fit the upgraded maps onto the device. I bought a satnav with maps of the whole of Europe on it to be able to drive around a lot, now the maps are updated I can only choose between different areas of Europe on it at once. So couldn't, for example, take the satnav to drive through mainland Europe to Italy, without taking a laptop and changing the maps over to the "Southern Europe" pack before I left Switzerland.

 

Rant over!

[djbobbins]

So my practical advice is that it might be worth looking for one with free lifetime map updates as part of the purchase price!

[mendiplogs]

We've got TomTom and it's good but map upgrades are silly expensive (about £40 IIRC) and won't fit the upgraded maps onto the device. I bought a satnav with maps of the whole of Europe on it to be able to drive around a lot, now the maps are updated I can only choose between different areas of Europe on it at once. So couldn't, for example, take the satnav to drive through mainland Europe to Italy, without taking a laptop and changing the maps over to the "Southern Europe" pack before I left Switzerland.

 

Rant over!

 

Hi mate we had the same mate when we went to Germany we use your iPhone to get around thanks John

[Treewolf]

I want a map, not directions, and use an inexpensive Tesco Hudl running Memory Map, mounted on a Ram mount.

 

Works a treat, and has a decent sized screen.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

I'm out of date; last iphone I saw didn't have turn-by-turn gps, only google mapping; might as well use a map! Take it things have moved on? I used my Lumia satnav in anger the other day and it was flippin awesome actually

[NFG]

Hi

 

We got a Garmin Nuvi 56 LM from Halfords now £79 Lifetime updates for all of Europe & UK.

 

Can't fault it really, straight forward to use, good software & in use works really well.

 

 

N

[dtms]

Garmin have the best mapping software and user interface by far an all around better product

[NFG]

Garmin have the best mapping software and user interface by far an all around better product

 

Agreed & the application runs fine on my MBP , dont know why Tom Tom seems to be favoured, updating seemed more complicated to me.

 

That said the European map was a 2.5Gb download but then its rather large area.

 

N