TomTom versus Navman for iPaq

[gixxer1000]

Folks, does anyone have experience of comparing these? I used a friends iPaq with TomTom Sat Nav this weekend and was pretty impressed. As I have an iPaq sitting around collecting dust I thought I'd get myself set up, and was wondering whether TomTom was the one to go for.

Any thoughts welcome.

Cheers,
gixxer.

[chris.mapey]

TomTom's great. I'll mail you off line...

Chris

[Aprisa]

Well don't go for Co-pilot with the ipaq jacket! I'm on my third unit which has just packed up this morning.

Total load of Cr@p!

Nick

[rushdriver]

chris.mapey said:

TomTom's great. I'll mail you off line... Chris

Agree with Chris 100%. I've just got it and I thought it would be a poor second compared to car systems but I have to say it's better than most I've seen.

Get the blue tooth one so you can put the GPS reciever on the back parcel shelf and just have the PDA at the front of the car.

Cheers

John

[sjgardner]

Aprisa said:

Well don't go for Co-pilot with the ipaq jacket! I'm on my third unit which has just packed up this morning. Total load of Cr@p! Nick

I brought a recon Co-pilot with the ipaq jacket but then put TomTom onto it works really well had no problems over the last year or so

[funkyboogalooo]

I use TomTom on my 2210. Must say it is very good.
Havent tried anything else so cant compare.

[s 8 grn]

Been looking at exactly this myself over the past few days.

The combo that looks best is the ipaq 2210 with the tom tom 3 bluetooth.

Best price on the 2210 is £229

PC World did have the 2210 with the wired tomtom 3 for £299 until June 1st - that was a bargain! Apparently they were swamped with orders.

[size13]

Also worth a look at...

www.tomtom.com/products/products.php?ID=243&Language=1

Should be about £450 when released later this month.

Although I'm thinking of an Ipaq 4150 and Tomtom 3 Bluetooth.

Also: Tomtom, you need to buy the european map pack, which comes standard with the Navman.

[moreymach]

Have a look at

www.pocketgps.co.uk/

Quite a lot on both systems and the forums have a lot of usefull info.

Ive have just got the Ipaq with Tomtom 3 and although I havnt used it in anger yet it seems great. With Tomtom at the moment there is a free 3 month trial of the traffic info system, the Ipaq logs on via a bluetooth phone and get info in accidents hold ups etc etc on your planned route and if required re-routes around it.. again I havnt used it on an actual journey but looks good in principle.


Guy.