Christmas this year.
Christmas this year.
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WildfireS3

Original Poster:

9,919 posts

276 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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My girlfriend is buying me GPS!!

ukbob

16,277 posts

289 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Excellent. A much needed gift then

If its not cheeky doing so, read the reviews and give her the model number of a good one to buy. There are some not-so-great units out there which are best avoided (send you the wrong way half the time) etc.

Rob

WildfireS3

Original Poster:

9,919 posts

276 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Well she's getting a PDA with some GPS Software on it rather than a pure GPS unit.

>> Edited by WildfireS3 on Monday 8th November 11:22

deadboyfriend

29 posts

260 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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I use an XDA2 with TomTom 3 loaded. I did have a Symbol bluetooth gps unit but it was crap and started to not work (build quality was shoddy too) so now i have the tomtom bluetooth gps unit and that works just great plus it looks great too.

TomTom is the only stuff I've used but it's great, i have maps for the whole of the US and Europe so i directs me from home to the airport, from amsterdam to some small village in holland, and then from there to frankfurt!

Three countries in one day with no hassle! I would wholeheartedly recommend TomTom to anyone! Use it one foot, go geocaching (www.geocaching.com), use it on a push bike, rental cars, friends cars, i have even used it when i have a dodgy taxi driver to make sure that he is going to right way. Excellent on holiday or if you are in a place you never been and need to find a cashpoint/petrol station and great as it means that you can focus on the driving and not where you are going.

TomTom now even has a traffic module where if you can connect to the internet (XDA or Bluetooth and GPRS enabled phone) it will download traffic information for your route and navigate you round it!

Enough of the advert, i would recommend you get out there and look at some and give the good lady (and she must be good to get you something like this!) the exact model numbers of what you want and even tell her where to buy it at the best price.

You live miles away from me, but if you are coming down south for any reason before christmas then we should hool up and i'll show you how it all works.

P.S - Make sure you get a storeage card (SD/CF) for the PDA to put the maps on, some of them are quite big! the UK is 98mb and with only 128mb native on most devices you could soon fill up.

WildfireS3

Original Poster:

9,919 posts

276 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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Actually I'm coming down south (Surrey) on Thursday night.

deadboyfriend

29 posts

260 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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where about's in Surrey are you going, i'm in West Sussex but depending on where you are it's not too far to drive.

clive f

7,259 posts

257 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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You don`t know how lucky you are, every year I have look suprised and excited when I un-wrap another pair of soddin socks!!!!

mycroft

1,545 posts

271 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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clive f said:
You don`t know how lucky you are, every year I have look suprised and excited when I un-wrap another pair of soddin socks!!!!

Well this year you can show them page 17/18 in Sprint
If you haven`t got Sprint they can club together and buy you TvRcC membership, (its even better than sox)
and ......welcome to the S club.

ukbob

16,277 posts

289 months

Monday 8th November 2004
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clive f said:
You don`t know how lucky you are, every year I have look suprised and excited when I un-wrap another pair of soddin socks!!!!
Ohh, you were lucky! When I were lad, On christmas Eve, we were given rolled up newspaper an thread, an a candle fer light to make next years clothes. Then they were torn up as a joke an we was sent back to our cell