200+Bhp

I was wondering if there is such a thing as a sat nav type device which can easily be moved between cars, something like a pocket pc with necessary software.

I have looked about the net but dont really know what I'm looking for.

Any advice or experience would be great

Hanslow

This the sort of thing you are after?

http://www.tomtom.com

Or have a look on http://www.discountgps.co.uk

No experience, looking into it myself

*Sonic*

Tom Tom is pretty smart

although Kane SatNav also do Speed Minder, so not only does it tell you how to get to where you are going, it tells you where all the speed cameras are too

And Kane has some good novelty voices too

200+Bhp

Thanks those links were usefull Hanslow.

Sonic have you used one yourself.

There seems to be a choice and they are all quite expensive, not something you would want to make a mistake when buying seeing as I will need to buy the pocket pc as well.

fast bloke

If you have a laptop you gan get a GPS mouse and a piece of mapping software for about 100 quid

angrynorth

What I want to know is when some clever sod is going to come up with the nav software for the P800 phone. It's already out for Nokia 92 series which uses a similar OS so it can't be that hard to adapt. Pleeease

MarkO

I can highly recommend the Garmin StreetPilot III.

*Sonic*

With regards to Tom Tom and an Ipaq, personally I havent used one myself yet

Oone of the guys at work has it, and I have seen it in use, and it is pretty smart (and cheap too) as a result of this guy in work, 4 other people have now got it too

and I will be the 5th, infact I have the software now and I just need my GPS receiever (ebay 85 quid)

200+Bhp

MarkO do you use the StreetPilot yourself ?


[Edited by 200+Bhp - 5/28/2003 6:11:52 PM]

Echo

Garmin Street Pilot III rocks. Several mates have bought them after being in my car. It's great and transfers from car to car.

I've had mine for over a year and couldn't manage without it!

:-)

Mike

MarkO

Of course I do! How do you think I wrote the review that link points to, otherwise?!?

It's superb. I'd definitely recommend it.

200+Bhp

MarkO of course I knew that cause I'm a mind reader thanks for the advice

Anyone else ??

200+Bhp

Next question where is the cheapest place to buy one ?

pbee

200+

I went a bit mad and bought all this stuff last week.

I went a slightly different route. I have a Ipaq 3870 allready I bought a road angel camera detector and connected my ipaq to this via the serial port. you can either reuse the docking cradle serial and mount this in the car (looks a bit cheesy). Or by a serial cable which plugs into the bottom.

I bought tomtom navigator v2 which is excellent, you also need a 128mb memory card to put the uk map on (96mb required).

and then you need a way of mounting the ipaq in the car. check out theclip.com as for $7 they have a very good vent mmount solution. cheapest similiar device i could find in the uk was £35.

there is a very useful site called pocketgps.co.uk which has lots of very good info. I will take some pictures when i put the equipment in the scoob as it currently lives in my work car.

MarkO

You don't have to be a mind reader. You just have to read the bit that says "Review by Mark Otway" on the page I linked to.

200+Bhp

*Sonic*

Ive just got TomTom 2 installed now tis the dogs, I need a GPS Reciever tho, so I can get it working fully

TomTom is good for sticking your route in, then sticking it on Nav Demo, to show you how it works once the GPS is hooked up

Im liking it a lot, need all the mounts n stuff now tho

Steve