Marky-San

Anyone know where are Glasgow / Motherwell and surrounds I could get hand held sat nav at short notice - i.e. tonight or early tomorrow morning?

Thanks - Marky

evojkp

Only place i can think that carry stock is Networx on the outskirts of Lanark 01555 666444.

I've bought both my origin units from them and not had any issues.

...John

Marky-San

hi John,

any ideas on price of the units?

cheers

evojkp

http://www.networxautomotive.com/

Some prices on their UK site. Hope this helps.

Spooks

Ive been looking into sat nav as well ( assuming your thinking of car as well) and Tomtom Go is good but £499 from PC world it aint cheap. Either that or perhaps a PDA and Tomtom nav 3 and GPS reciever from same place PC world, or most GPS web sites too for about the same. I do have the Tomtom nav disc here but no PDA etc to test it with.
Actually reading this, was this any help at all ??? lol
Spooks

evojkp

D'oh!! :crackup:

Dougster

Spooks, try looking at the sun/stars or getting a compass first!!!

Basics first!!!

Marky-San

Got TOMTOM out of PC world - was going to get the medion one from Halfords, but TOMTOM has a little speedo thing I thought was too cute.

Gave it a try and it was pretty good - giving it to my mum so she travel country without worry.

To explain, she was going into glasgow on the mway - missed here exit for the city centre, paniced, kept going till somewhere she recognised - glasgow airport, turned off and ran out of petrol. No money, no phone, no AA card - luckily my tearful mother was rescued by a taxi driver who got her petrol and led her all the way back to glasgow - what a gent. Think she just lost the plot in a panic.............after all that- hence the TOMTOM You'll understand

pmacFTO

I use TomTom 3 in my Ipaq and it rocks

Get an Ipaq off Ebay and a GPS receiver and you could be up and running in no time. Used mine to get to JAE and Santa Pod - even just local places etc...worked great up north too...amazing how helpful it can be - I also have all the speedcams in it so it warns u - and I have all the UK SHell garages too Can always find Optimax no matter where u be

Spooks

if I thought I would use a Ipaq for ANYthing else I would buy one but I know I would only ever use it for sat nav and seeing as I never bloody go anywhere...... I tell ya what it hard work being antisocial .
On a serious note pmacFTO, would love to see yer Ipaq set up inc wiring in etc so if yer local gimmie a shout
Spooks

Marky-San

Hi Spooks the Ipaq with TomTom software was £400 squid from non-'PC' World

Paul - are you the white FTO with black or carbon bonnet? Markyboy Malloy told it was you - but hes a GTR V-spec space cadet nowadays LOL!! You set up with cameras and shell stations is a particularly intriguing - NAH ingenius one

pmacFTO

Yep I have the FTO m8 and it is proper Carbon Fibre Project F Ltd Edition one.

I had a Snooper SR6 but it's pointless if you have the Ipaq up to date with the speed cam database (free online). And the radar bit was no good IMHO! So I sold it.

If you ONLY want to get the Ipaq for the Sat Nav then you can get an older model which will handle it admirably - and altho I have TomTom 3 original I also have a link to a backup with a wee serial number generator...

Spooks

Dont Spose ya know how well Tomtom runs on the lower end of the Ipaq range ie Ipaq 1940, its a lower end one with a mere 266mhz clock CPU.
Dont wanna waste a whole lotta money on sommit I may never use
Spooks

pmacFTO

Not sure m8, I have a 3970 and neighbour bought a 2210 and they both run great. You'll find min spec on www.tomtom.com

AndyfaeAyr

iTrader: (1)

cheapest in glasgow i could find mate was http://www.totalpda.co.uk/AndyfaeAyr

pmacFTO

TotalPDA do some good deals...I looked there b4 buying mine in PC World, which I normally avoid, but they were doing it cheaper than any of the web places in a promotion