Taff107

Can anyone recommend a (cheap-ish) PDA satnav setup with european coverage? It'll be mostly used for the satnav so not interested too much in having top spec hardware, just one that'll do the job

Soulgirl

Dont know about cheap... especially if you want stability.

Personally I have the XDA II coupled with TomTom 3 - amazingly simple, and surprisingly more correct than TomTom2 was.

Taff107

How much did that set you back and does it have European coverage?

Soulgirl

Yes, Euro coverage is possible although I only have UK. The maps are not that expensive. The XDA is tops £600 without contract to as little as Free with contract (but massive monthly account). Tom Tom 2 with the reciever was around £300... the upgrade to TT3 was a mere £40.

I'll say this.. not having to worry about reading maps, or road signs from home to destination is a joy! Very relaxing and well worth the initial outlay if you travel alot like I do

Pumpkin

O2 are doing a deal with the XDA-II and TomTom3. £ 420 I think. You get PDA, Sat Nav, as well as a phone.

Soulgirl

That's a bargain Pumpkin... what is the monthly contract on that then?

Pumpkin

Just checked. Its actually £ 480. Contact 02 for further details.

I've been offered an XDA-II for free...

Soulgirl

I got mine free too and made £100 selling the XDA original I had too. Running TomTom on the original one was very slow and it kept crashing as it didnt have enough memory really but the II is way better in terms of it's hardware so have no trouble with it at all. Plus of course it's bluetooth which means you get to look like a cyborg

Chris L

Have a look at Handnav - I've got a Dell Axim 3 running TomTom3 - they have a bundle for £399, which is pretty good. It comes with a 128Mb SD card which is good enough to hold the whole of the UK. If you want to use the European maps, you will either need to overwrite the UK maps or get a 256Mb SD card.

Chris

carl

TT3 comes with a "Major Roads of Europe" map as well as the UK, so if you don't want too much detail you could go for that. Otherwise, you'll have to buy the "Maps of Western Europe" although Ebuyer seem to be the cheapest for these at <£90.

Pumpkin

Special Offer:

HP Ipaq H1930 pocket PC with Kirrio GPS in-car sat nav system.
Includes cradle and in-car charger
UK map included.

£ 229.99 plus VAT

offer runs from 07/07/04 to 20/07/04

via Makro

Iain

I have an IPAQ 3630 with a compact flash battery jacket and 128 Mb compact flash card I was about to put on ebay.( If you are interested)

I also have a cable to plug it into a GPS and car cig socket.

I used it with TT2, I now use my IPAQ 3970.

Iain

Andy Hall

I've got a mate selling TT3 Bluetooth kits for £198.00 inc vat, just add CF card and BT enabled PDA, I think Total PDA were doing some refurbished PDA's with bundled TT a couple of weeks ago.

http://www.totalpda.co.uk/TomTom-Nav...rnada-928.aspx

Iain

Persoanlly think TT2 is better that TT3.

TT3 maps have load of things missing. Including the street I stay on, which is on TT2 !!!

Iain

Taff107

Thanks for the help guys but can you have a butchers at this -

http://www.totalpda.co.uk/Navman-441...iPAQ-1940.aspx

and tell me what you think? What else would I require - i.e. how much memory etc

carl

If you upgrade to TT3.03 (download from the Tomtom support site) this problem should go away...