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| Thread ID: 129993 | 2013-03-22 21:06:00 | Navman GPS $99 at The Warehouse today only. | Trev (427) | PC World Chat |
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| 1333768 | 2013-03-23 05:21:00 | What is wrong with using a iphone :devil Kennothing if you have google maps installed |
plod (107) | ||
| 1333769 | 2013-03-23 20:43:00 | Unless the google maps haven't been updated on my bro's phone, the voice quality isn't v good on it. But practically for me a phone wins out for the occasional use. The few benefits for me with the car satnavs are more info panels on it ... it works in rural areas without 3G reception and if you use it regularly not having to pay 3G service. With google they are way more cost beneficial going overseas when you don't have to fork out $80+ for each country/region map and Navman doesn't have a lot of them, the fewer of the lot compared to Garmin/TomTom.... but with cellphones I think they can get bluetooth external GPS receivers too which makes them quicker esp with maybe a Nokia which has offline maps whole country/region downloaded into the phone but for me I am just happy to pick up a local simcard so Google Maps will do and get a better phone both feature and price wise ie the Androids. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 1333770 | 2013-03-23 23:48:00 | Yeah, I use my phone *almost* exclusively. It's not like I need a huge ammount of direction finding anyway. Once I finally pay off my new car I'm installing my phone in my dash for media/navigation/dashcam. I bought a no name chinese GPS a while back, ran WinCE. I had a bit of fun with it, installed iGO 8 Primo (their premium version of iGO) which works very well. Realy nice UI etc etc. Comparable with some of the $200+ GPS units. The trouble is finding maps for it. I don't have any other than the stock ones. | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1333771 | 2013-03-23 23:50:00 | I follow my nose mostly, been out for a ride this morning and as usual I turn down roads I have never been on just to see where they go. The benefit of moving city I guess learning new places | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1333772 | 2013-03-25 05:29:00 | I've got three Navmans: I bought one, then Mrs T won a better unit in a competition . Shortly after that, and when I recovered from the shock of the pricing for Australian maps, I bought a third off TM with lifetime Oz maps on it for less than half the price of buying the maps here . They are all good, but unfortunately I've lived in AK long enough not to need a GPS for anything but the most obscure of areas . A GPS is more use in an unfamiliar city or overseas because it limits the time spent checking maps and also lets you keep your eyes on the road . Interestingly, while in Melbourne last week we didn't have a vehicle so we mostly used trams and trains, but did use taxis a few times too . The drivers all use dedicated Cab-GPS technology and only one could take us where we wanted to go without first entering the data into his GPS . The one who didn't need a GPS told us that drivers arrive in Oz from overseas and after getting their license, go straight into driving cabs without any local knowledge at all . They rely entirely on their GPS as I discovered on one occasion when I knew the street name phonetically, but not the spelling because I'd never seen it . The driver called up all sorts of streets before I picked the right one for him . A GPS is no substitute for commonsense, as some people have found when they follow blindly the wrong way down one-way streets or end up in cow paddocks! Cheers Billy 8-{) :groan: |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1333773 | 2013-03-25 06:03:00 | One of the last times I got a cab in Sydney was in pre-GPS times. I needed to get from Kingsford Smith to Bankstown airports. I ended up reading the map and navigating for the driver. Pleasant enough bloke, but he just didn't have a clue. | WalOne (4202) | ||
| 1333774 | 2013-03-25 22:14:00 | I was never interested in owning one, then I got a smartphone and tried the navigator and loved it. Now I'm considering getting a dedicated one so I can leave it set up. What I think would be cool if it doesn't already exist is a touchscreen android based head unit to do it all. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1333775 | 2013-03-25 23:14:00 | The cheap & nasty GPS a friend bought of trademe was actually android based. It could also do some of the usual tablets functions :did everything badly :lol: My Tomtom occasionally doesn't turn on 1st try. Im too too surpised as these things can get steaming hot being left in the sun all day. Literally too hot to touch after a few hours of the car parked in the Summer sun. Cant be good for them. Why not make the casing white ?? that surely would stop many heat related failures |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1333776 | 2013-03-26 00:51:00 | If I attach my cellphone holder to the windscreen and run navigator in summer I get a warning after a while that the battery is too hot and has stopped charging. Only happens in that position. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1333777 | 2013-03-26 05:05:00 | I use my Navman around town a bit - it is especially good at showing you how close you are to your destination on long/busy roads. Better than slowing down trying to spot street numbers. However, choosing the 'shortest route' is generally a bad_idea. On one route I ended up crossing over very busy roads (4-laned) during rush hour, going through a sports ground/park and some minor/private road between two streets that looked remarkably like it belonged to a retirement village. :illogical |
Jen (38) | ||
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