Reply to: TOM Tom or Navman

[Ardesco]

I want a pda with tomtom on - what is the best to go for?

I just got a Orange SPV M3100 as an upgrade. Installed TomTom 6 last night and seems to run fine so far. Just waiting for my £40 bluetooth GPS thingy from e-bay to arrive and i'll be sorted.

[threaded]

I want a pda with tomtom on - what is the best to go for?

A difficult question really. A HP5550, if you can find one, is the fastest, even though it has a slower processor. A hx2795 has a much better screen and the bluetooth connection is more reliable. A hw6915 will get you all features enabled i.e. traffic reports.

[pisces]

A real man only needs a £2.99 roadmap and relies on his inbuilt sense of direction. Satnav is for women and SASguru.


HTH

[Numptycorner]

Indeed I should. Perhaps I should get rid of my manbag and buy a Smartcar? But what colour would match my shoes?

This isn't Trinny and Susannah mate FFS!

[BoredBloke]

I want a pda with tomtom on - what is the best to go for?

[sasguru]

People should be suspicious of a man who doesn't own a car, but owns a manbag.

Indeed they should. Perhaps you should get rid of your manbag and buy a car?

[Numptycorner]

Funny then, that I don't have a sat nav, isn't it? Come to think of it, I don't have a car either. Real men get driven everywhere.

People should be suspicious of a man who doesn't own a car, but owns a manbag.

[sasguru]

A real man only needs a £2.99 roadmap and relies on his inbuilt sense of direction. Satnav is for women and SASguru.


HTH

Funny then, that I don't have a sat nav, isn't it? Come to think of it, I don't have a car either. Real men get driven everywhere.

[Numptycorner]

A real man only needs a £2.99 roadmap and relies on his inbuilt sense of direction. Satnav is for women and SASguru.


HTH

[MarillionFan]

My navman seems to take forever to get a signal. When it does it looses it and tells me to turn around and when it's cold, doesnt seem to work at all.

If I want to go somewhere I know the best route for it sends me somewhere else!!!!!

Crap. Use Autoroute before you leave.

[Ardesco]

Well the Navman i originally bought my wife was cheaper, but after it being utter tulipe, taking a good 15 mins to lock on and trying to take her through fields I sent it back and paid more for a TomTom which is brilliant.

So in my experiance Navman is cheaper but worse (although I didn't get the all singing all dancing top of the range model of either).

[cojak]

TomTom = mutts nuts

Navman = Cheaper tulipe that gets easily confused.

I wish it was....

[IR35 Avoider]

I have TomTom on my PDA. Since I already had a PDA, I just had to buy and add-on GPS receiver and TomTom software - I think I spent about £110 in total.

Biggest challenge has been finding a PDA holder I like, and that doesn't fall off while I'm driving. Didn't like windscreen ones, as they are an advertisement to car thieves, but too fiddly not to be left permanently in place. Got a more discreet vent-mounted one, which holds the PDA with a magnet. This kept falling out, until I decided to mount the vent clips upside down - now it is rock solid.

Was once on a two lanes in each direction dual carriageway somewhere south of London, for 20 minutes TomTom told me I was driving across countryside. Admittedly the road did look new.

[Ardesco]

TomTom = mutts nuts

Navman = Cheaper tulipe that gets easily confused.

[tim123]

Mind you when driving in really remote places it may be difficult to get a signal,

The signal come from a satellite 26,000 km away. How can it tell the difference between the middle of moorland and the centre of town?

(usually towns are the worst because the buildings get in the way of the signal)

tim