Too many choices

Hi everyone, I could really do with some advise from all users. I've
always
been a bit of a Garmin snob, but now that I'm looking to upgrade
it's more
frustrating than I first thought. I will be travelling across
Europe in the
summer and I have been considering either the Garmin
1690T, the TT 750 live or
the Navigon 8450 live. They all have, in
their own way, the features which I
would like but I can't find any
definitive answers on their navigation,
reliability and live services.
Any comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. p.s Just to throw a
spanner in the works I've also looked at the specs
for the new Garmin
3760T, any thoughts?




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PaulMac

I drive long distances across Europe. After the last set of updates to
out of memory. This is a complete PITA and it has now been relegated to
the device for use in the car kept at my holiday home.

I considered buying another Garmin and the 3760T, 3790T and 1490TV were
on the list.However in the end the fact that I had an iPhone made me go
for TomTom. I see StreetPilot is now available for the iPhone, had I
waited a bit I might have gone for that. TomTom works OK, but the
interface is crappy compared to the Garmin. The online traffic service
for TomTom works well across Europe and has routed me around some nasty
traffic jams. However since it uses GSM, it's damned expensive when
abroad unless you buy a SIM in every country that you intend to drive
in. Not that practical.

----- Original Message -----
Newsgroups: uk.rec.gps
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 9:08 AM
Subject: Re: Too many choices



I just asked my Nokia N79* to calculate from Manchester to Marseille (about
1,000 miles). I looked away to read a couple of posts and it had already
done it.

I should give up the snobbery if I were you...

Mapping and navigation is free on most Nokia smart phones. Some features
are probably not quite as sophisticated as a Garmin, but it does the job for
zero marginal cost!



* not actually 'supposed' to have navigation, but it went and downloaded
Nav' itself one day.

[snip]


Fascinating. I don't have a Nokia and I'm not quite sure what the relevance
is. As I pointed out the Garmin was ruined by an update that didn't leave
enough memory free to calculate long routes. Apparently this is fixed in
the 2000 and 3000 series.


What "snobbery" you divot?


No one asked about Nokia. As far as I can see the big negative with Nokia
for navigation is that the Nokia phones are shite and the displays are poor
resolution.


Having a phone that installs stuff without asking is good, is it?

Missed the bit about the update regressing your Garmin. The OP was looking
to upgrade.


Referred to by the OP





The OP asked about upgrading from Garmin - why have a separate device?


Mine works fine, although its screen is small; current N* etc. comparable to
others on display and it has the best camera.


It insisted on an update to load more / newer maps - afterwards it had Nav'
enabled, even though the web site says you can't load it. Certainly the
best unannounced feature I have come across.


Just in case you missed it the marginal cost is zero. The application is
included with the phone. The maps are free and can be downloaded over
wi-fi. Assuming you load maps for where you are going (and you can load the
whole world) then navigation is free as the phone will navigate offline
(like navigation devices, but unlike most (if not all) other phones)