Are there any Sat Nav's brand new under £150

[snowkit]

Hi Guys,

I am looking for a portable Sat Nav, i am looking for one that comes with UK road maps, has an SD port that can be used for future upgrade maps on SD cards like maps of europe and has UK speed camera detection with a verbal command before you pass a speed camera. Can you get anything like this for under £150 including VAT brand new in the UK?

Also i am not looking for a Sat Nav like the ones you hear on the news that send you on a wrong journey to the edge of a cliff, i would like something that is reliable and from a good well know company.

I saw a TV advert i think it was argos, they were selling a portable sat nav for £150 including VAT, it is able to detect speed cameras and give you a verbal command, it was i think either a packard bell or a tomtom. I have been looking for this on argos site but cannot find it.

I would like to order one of these asap as i hope to get it for christmas either online or from a shop, so i hope you could tell me about some you know for that price.

Any help much appreciated

Many many thanks

[craig777]

Originally Posted by snowkit

Also i am not looking for a Sat Nav like the ones you hear on the news that send you on a wrong journey to the edge of a cliff

I think I'm right in saying that there's always a chance of this happening, as most brands share the same mapping... either Navteq or Tele-atlas.

[Raven1907]

you can get the navman f20 for £150 inc vat.

I was going to get one, but the Garmin Nuvi300 is £180 and has the better Navteq maps, better screen and map graphics, looks nice, is lighter, has a better battery, and smaller. The stupid things like MP3 player and Jpeg viewer are nice, as well as good support on the net with POI and stuff.

Oh and garmin seem to be regarded as the best.

[KeithO]

Originally Posted by Raven1907

Oh and garmin seem to be regarded as the best.

Debateable

[snowkit]

Thanks for the reply guys

Raven1907 are those sat navs you listed, have they got speed camera detection, do they give you a verbal command to slow down before you pass the speed camera?

[Raven1907]

Originally Posted by snowkit

Thanks for the reply guys

Raven1907 are those sat navs you listed, have they got speed camera detection, do they give you a verbal command to slow down before you pass the speed camera?

i know the garmin can be loaded with speed camera databse (free from pocketgps) and for the cameras it knows the speed limit for it will warn you.

Not sure about the F20

[KeithO]

Do any of them give you a verbal warning of upcoming speed cameras? I've only ever seen them do noises, beeps and the like.

[KeithO]

Originally Posted by Raven1907

i know the garmin can be loaded with speed camera databse (free from pocketgps) and for the cameras it knows the speed limit for it will warn you.

Not sure about the F20

Not free from pocketgps anymore

[Raven1907]

http://www.maft.co.uk/garmin/


FREE


Don't know about the voice thing, I'll let you know tomorrow when I get mine.

[snowkit]

Hey guys,

I really should of read up on here before i went out to get a sat nav as a Christmas present. I ended up buying from Currys the tom tom one for £200 i then checked out Kelkoo price comparison and saw the web price of £175.

Then i checked out the web price for the Navman f20 and that's £130 but currently out of stock or in stock from another web store for £150, those prices include delivery.

As this tom tom is a Christmas present it has not been opened yet, i was thinking of sending it back.

Currys was selling the Navman f20 for £150, apart from the store i mentioned above that sells it for £130, do you know any where selling it for less than that?

I was planning to go for the navman when i was in currys but the woman working there said to me that it does not do full post code search, she said like it does the first half of the post code, and get's you to the area of deestination but then it's up to you to actually find the door number. But i went to a online dealer of navmans and under the specs it says it does full post code searches, so i don't know what to believe now, can anyone verify this?

and does full post code searches mean that you get a verbal command showing you the way all the way to the door of the destination, so totally door to door?

Can the navman alert you of speed cameras by a beep or verbal command or can this be added as an upgrade that you buy?

The tom tom one that i got can be upgraded to speed camera detection and that costs £100

Raven1907

i took a look at this site you posted http://www.maft.co.uk/garmin/

I don't understand what this is, is this a free speed camera detection software that you load onto the garmin sat nav, and is it totally free, no subscriptions who offers this, if it's free who makes it how can they make money from this? Can it also cue you with a verbal command before passing a speed camera?

please answer my questions guys


Many many thanks

[snowkit]

I just found on a google search that you can get a tom tom one V2 with speed camera alerts, for between £180 and £220 from many online stores.

They say in the products title it has speed camera alerts, but in the specs it just says this

'Optional warning when exceeding recorded speed limit (if available from map data)'

But from the above description that means that when your going above the roads speed limit it's just going to alert you to slow down, but that's very different from speed camera detection, as people want to go fast above ordinary speed limits but want to slow down for speed cameras. But in the end with a tom tom one like the one i have got now which is £200 if i want speed camera detection that's going to cost me another £100 and i could have this tom tom one V2 which i imagine is a little old version, but i could have it for between £180 and £220, what i would like to know is if you guys know if it really does detect speed cameras as there is mixed descriptions on this from the online stores?

And do you know if this tom tom V2 is being sold for less than £180 anywhere?

much appreciated


thanks in advance

[snowkit]

just found this navman f20, it says it comes preloaded with free speed camera locations, is that just locations as i assume there is no beep to let you know there is a speed camera coming up, is that right?

Also this is £130

http://www.mynewcheap.co.uk/products...sat-nav/10310/

[MStarkey]

You can still get the Tomtom One for £164.61 with this code bppod10. I ordered one yesterday & the code still works

Home delivery only though

[paulyoung666]

garmin i3 all the way , small but very usuable , updateable and for as little as £99 on the highstreet

[KeithO]

Originally Posted by snowkit

I But in the end with a tom tom one like the one i have got now which is £200 if i want speed camera detection that's going to cost me another £100

I'm a bit confused with this (or you are!)

What do you mean it's going to cost you another 100 quid to get speed camera detection on the Tomtom? You can get UK speed camera POI files from either Tomtom themselves (not sure how much a subscription costs but I'm sure it's not 100 quid) or from pocketgps (2 quid a month last time I checked). Word on the street is the pocketgps ones are better than the 'official' Tomtom lists. I downloaded the pocketgps list once, might refresh it once every 3 or 4 months.

But as far as I am aware, none of these actually detect speed cameras other than the Road Angel model. Tomtom sure doesn't - it has a POI list that shows the location of speed cameras but this is highly reliant upon the quality of the POI data. It will not detect new cameras, or mobile cameras, for example.