Does anyone use Garmin/TomTom Sat Nav anymore?

[CaptainMorgan]

I was thinking today about my holiday to Italy earlier in the summer. We drove down to where my Mrs dad is from, tiny town in the southern Italian countryside. He spent ages looking at maps and routes to get us there, I told him to just follow me with Google maps. It got us door to door, avoided traffic and generally made the trip hassle free. The father in law and his brother were amazed, even more so when on the 4th day it took us about an hour out into the sticks to find the town her mum is from.

So, does anyone still use standalone systems? Or even in car systems? Do they have any advantage or has Google maps got all of our directional needs sorted?

[CaptainMorgan]

daemon said:

I dont particularly want my phone up on the dash on some sort of bracket.
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That was something I didnt like the thought of but thankfully a cheap amazon phone holder that clips on the dash vent works perfect and is easy to remove.

It'd be interesting to see what would be better in changing traffic conditions, a satnav (I presume uses traditional traffic cameras still?) VS a phone with Google maps.

[CaptainMorgan]

Regarding the size thing, I used my Mrs iPhone 6 for Italy, it was plenty big enough and similar to the size of my last Sat Nav that I can remember. Although, my mate did use his iPad with Google maps before, plenty of screen then!

[CaptainMorgan]

daemon said:

Not sure how much we'll use it on the A45. Its a plug in garmin card that uses the central touch screen.

Me and my mate did go to Germany using his MK7 GTi built in Nav, it did work well and a advantage I forgot of built in units is the sound being better if you have it turned on, it's just a ballache of is needing updates and becoming useless after the manufacturer has stopped supporting it, but I guess with easy updates over a 3G connection it's easier than the the old units with a CD.

[CaptainMorgan]

daemon said:

I'd an 07 Merc C350 coupe recently. Great colour nav unit as part of the sound system - unfortunately you could use the nav OR you could play a CD, as you needed the NAV DVD in.

Ended up with the Garmin mounted on the windscreen so i could listen to my CDs...

Oh really, I expected discs to have stopped being used years ago, my MK1 Fabia had a disc, expected most things made in the past 10 years to be disc-less now.