Portable Sat Nav - best buy?

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    greg Its a G thing

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    Nothing too flash (read expensive), but which will have France mapped.

    Any thoughts?
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    lhatkins Dazed and Confused

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    The TomTom seems to be all the rage these days, not cheap thought at £550 but I think you might be able to get it cheaper if you shop around TomTom GO700
     
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    Neil

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    I'd go for this one - cheaper & with full europe maps etc

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    I wouldn't a friend brought a 520 the other day, i wasn't very impressed, it is smaller than a Tomtom but it has a crap speaker inside as a result, the Tomtom sounds a lot clearer.

    Lee, your comment on price is just about the TT700, the TT300 is about the £350 mark.

    I have an original TTG and quite like it, I'm sure Julian would agree,

    Have a look at http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/

    If you buy a TT300 or TT500 you'll find that it has the UK maps on the SD card and a CD with the major routes of Europe on it, if you need detailed maps of France you'll need to buy the Europe CD.

    However the hard disk on the TT700 has the Europe down to street level pre installed.
     
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    julian2002 Muper Soderator

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    i have a tom tom go and as sgt rock says i love it to bits. just got back from a short break where i used it extensively - the only recomendation i would give is that if you live in an inner city with lots of high rise or in very hilly / tree'd over lanes (i.e. north devon boondocks) then get an external antenna or experiment with positioning. that's really my only criticism of the thing - it will occasionally catch you out with an outdated map where there's a new development but go to multimap and find the nearest road and you'll be ok. otherwise a great bit of kit and you'll probably find one on ebay for not a lot.
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    johnhunt recidivist

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    i had sat nav in a previous company car, i really liked it at the time - this time i haven't. occassionally miss it. not so bad as i still can read a map

    my suggestion therefore- A to Z
     
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    lhatkins Dazed and Confused

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    or teach your other half how to read a map, probably cheaper and would be a nicer voice than the Americanisied female eletronic voices the sat navs have.
     
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    julian2002 Muper Soderator

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    actually the 'go' has a half decent brit accent and you can switch it to a male voice too. they are even doing voice skins for the thing now - or so i believe. you'll still argue with it when you know better though.
     
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    rsand I can't feel my toes

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    I have the original TT go and am very pleased with it, but pissed off now the 500 and 700 have built in bluetooth hands free
     
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