Phone vs Sat Nav

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R1-Jay

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450 posts

182 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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Ive been using waze for a few years now

is there a sat nav out there that has as good updates/realtime traffic and police warnings etc as good as the phone?

was thinking of this new garmin with the dash cam built in

Riley Blue

20,915 posts

225 months

Tuesday 1st December 2015
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Anything you can add this database to should be OK:
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Cam...

boombastictiger

203 posts

115 months

Saturday 5th December 2015
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From my understanding Waze is the creme de la creme when you add in the live updates and re routing in traffic. Since using it has simply trumped all sats navs i have used when it cones to finding the fastest route, live updates alerts etc.

My logic is that everyone has a phone, so natually more drivers will have waze and google maps installed for free due to convinience, so when it comes to community generated real time updates (traffic, car on road, police etc) no paid for sat nav can come close as they wont have as many users?

Waiting to hear an alternative argument as if there is a better solution i am all ears.

jkh112

21,891 posts

157 months

Tuesday 8th December 2015
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boombastictiger said:
My logic is that everyone has a phone, so natually more drivers will have waze and google maps installed for free due to convinience, so when it comes to community generated real time updates (traffic, car on road, police etc) no paid for sat nav can come close as they wont have as many users?

Waiting to hear an alternative argument as if there is a better solution i am all ears.
I cannot comment on Waze vs sat nav as I have never used Waze. Your logic that no sat nav will be as good as waze because it has less users seems a bit flawed as most dedicated sat navs get traffic data from other sources than user uploads.

johnwilliams77

8,308 posts

102 months

Tuesday 8th December 2015
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Waze is great. Much more convenient for me.

numtumfutunch

4,705 posts

137 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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johnwilliams77 said:
Waze is great. Much more convenient for me.
It isnt perfect as I have said on the Waze thread but it is pretty bloody good and has saved me hours on trips across France in peak traffic and much nearer to home when I thought I knew the fastest route - but didnt