Looking for my first sat-nav with a max budget of £120... Looking at getting this GARMIN NUVI 1390T, RRP is about £160. Ebay link I like Garmins for some reason, but i hear Tomtom LIVE is really good? help needed, thanks!
In the last year or so I've done over 30,000 miles with my Garmin 1340T and I couldn't be with out it. It did have a couple of issues when I first got it (it was slow starting up when it had been turned off not long before hand and sometimes reset itself in the middle of london) but they have been sorted by updates. The traffic updates works well most of the time and has saved my sanity from not having to spend half my life sat in traffic
I've always had Garmin, last one was built into a Kenwood head unit. Good stuff, not perfect by a long shot. I currently use the Google one for Android, I would say, it is more accurate and less prone to describing bends as 'turns' than a Garmin though.
If you own an iPhone get the tomtom app, I sold my satnav as have no use for it now. Sold it for more than the app cost!
you pay per navigation, no? (or at least for bandwidth) OVI-Maps is free (once you downloaded it) as it requires no connection.
I use a tomtom go at home and some sort of garmin in work (driving a van). I'd say they're both fine and down to personal preference. Personally I like the tomtom just a little more, I find it a bit more intuitive but try both and see.
Not really, besides the cheapo consumer units, I don't think any explorers or milititaries use Tomtom. They certainly use Garmin though.
Ive always found the Garmin interface to be cleaner and much easier to view/read from. The only tomtom I had was about 5 years ago, and it just seemed quite untidy and wasn't 'pretty' to look at, might not sound important but a clean interface helps if you are only glancing at it briefly.
nope completely free unlimited internet on my contract (3GB FUP) so i guess indirectly i do a little but i also use my data for other things like email, streaming, skype, tethering etc.
You do realize that the success/usefullness of a satnav device is less about the actual unit than the maps that are on it? The mapping sotware is the most important part, you need to make sure that whatever you get it has the teleatlas mapping system on it, because most of the rest of them are rubbish. Everything else is pretty much a matter of preference. Some have music players via USB/SD cards, bluetooth, automatic updating etc etc. I now fall into the category of someone who owns an iPhone and uses a satelite navigation app on it - I get by with Ndrive but have been considering getting the TomTom app for added accuracy and slightly more detailled maps. I used to sell Clarion units and have a MAP370 unit but like many iPhone owners who have satnav units, it stays in the glove compartment 99% of the time. For hardware features I can highly recommend Clarion though, and they use TeleAtlas.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....660685&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_663wt_1139 found it for even less, think i my order within the next few minutes, looks up some reviews
right, well iv orded that one... best not be sh!t going to download all the updates for it before i use it from there site. The Sat-nav is worth more than my car lol
The 1390T is a bloody good unit, I'm a fan of Garmins and if I were to buy one today that'd be it. Lane assist is so useful at complex junctions.
