GPS navigation

[davidd]

I'm looking for the following.

Something which will give us detailed route descriptions in real time with an auto correct feature if we get lost.

Traffic news integration, with auto reroute

Portable, we can buy ot for the office and whoever needs it that day can take it with no arsing about.

Nice 3d birds eye maps.

I was looking at the navman kit but there is no traffic info.

Oh and I'l like it to be dirt cheap

Come on then, what do you think?

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[Podie]

Traffic info...?

Hmm... probably restricts you to something like the TomTom navigator.. but I'd have to doulbe check...

[davidd]

Ah I see, tom tom traffic. Triffic

Anyone flogging one cheap?

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[pmanson]

Try this lot:
www.totalpda.co.uk/

Seem to be very reasonably priced. Bloke I know at uni ordered a PDA with TomTom2 on it and they've given him an update to TomTom3 free of charge as it came out the week after he brought it

[nighthawk]

tom tom go

seems to be the best solution at the mo,

[brumster]

Tom Tom 3 will have traffic info but only in connection with a GPRS connection while you're on the move - which tends to mean a GPRS-enabled bluetooth phone.

Navman also includes traffic stuff but it's not as accomplished as Tom Tom. All in all, there's not much choice at the moment I'm afraid :[

[davidd]

I was going to ask if it needed a bluetooth phone.

Right then so my p800 should be fine, I just need a handheld with bluetooth on it for the tom tom to run on.

Dell have a geat deal on the axim x3 with tom tom, I might wait until the new x30 comes along in a few weeks

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[warmfuzzies]

Ipaq 2210 or similar, toptalpda amongst others rate them fairly highly, can be had for about £200.

kevin

[davidd]

http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/axim_x3_gps?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs

Is only £318 inc tom tom..



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[brumster]

Another PH'er told me Dell's bluetooth implementation is a bit dodgy, so I went for the HP instead in the end - anybody else heard this?

[Big_Dan]

The X5 GPS kit is cabled, not bluetooth.

One way round it! Price seems OK at £325 though.

[davidd]

We have bought an x30 (new dell) with the dell branded x3 tom tom wired kit and some extra ram. We use P800s for phones so we'll bluetooth to that for traffic and scamera stuff. All in it was about £450

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[fatsteve]

One thing to be cautious of is the connectivity required for TomTom traffic. If you are using the bluetooth version of Navigator then you can't use TomTom traffic at the same time (bluetooth only supports a single connection, hence PDA+GPS or PDA+Phone).

Having said that, TomTom traffic is the dogs orb's, I've just been playing around with it today. I get round the "single bluetooth" issue because I'm running an XDA II so the GPRS connection is already there in the phone.

Again, more quality stuff from TomTom.

WRT the comments about TotalPDA and the Ipaq 1940, excellent choice and they are doing some silly deals at the moment on PDA+TomTom bundles!!

Steve

[davidd]

fatsteve said:

One thing to be cautious of is the connectivity required for TomTom traffic. If you are using the bluetooth version of Navigator then you can't use TomTom traffic at the same time (bluetooth only supports a single connection, hence PDA+GPS or PDA+Phone). Steve

So we should be ok then, using the wired gps and bluetooth for the phone and gprs??

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[fatsteve]

davidd said:

fatsteve said: One thing to be cautious of is the connectivity required for TomTom traffic. If you are using the bluetooth version of Navigator then you can't use TomTom traffic at the same time (bluetooth only supports a single connection, hence PDA+GPS or PDA+Phone). Steve So we should be ok then, using the wired gps and bluetooth for the phone and gprs?? D

Yep, that'll be fine.

To be honest I find that limitation a pain in the arse with bluetooth, especially given the recent legislation about mobile phone use whilst driving. For me it's a case of 3 options!!

1. Break the law
2. Use a bluetooth headset and get lost!
3. Use GPS and not make / take phone calls (not generally an issue in the TVR - SORRY, SPEAK UP I CAN'T HERE YOU!!!..)

Steve

>> Edited by fatsteve on Wednesday 26th May 12:26

[davidd]

I wonder if I can make my p800 switch bluetooth devices when it gets a call...

Or I could just ignore it.

Or I could just answer it.

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