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British English not so British!

Advantages: Ease of use. Price.
Disadvantages: Seems to like "scenic routes"!!.

...shop, I finally chose the Garmin Nüvi 255 to replace the Mio which I really didn't get on with. The 255 makes it very easy to select and save a destination, the instructions are loud and clear and the holder supports the unit firmly on the windscreen. I have the voice set to British English but (to my irritation) "she" insists on saying, in an English accent, for example, "two hundred fifty" instead of "two hundred and fifty". I haven't used the ...
...certain circumstances, other Americanisms will creep in which sound bizarre when spoken in an "English" (i.e. not regional) accent. Although I have set "Navigation, Avoidances" to include only "Unpaved Roads", the unit insists on trying to take me along winding country lanes and this in the area around my home which I know well and when I would use much "better" roads which are possibly shorter and quicker in the long run. In "Navigation" I have ...

Silverman123 15.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin Nüvi 255

Garmin Nüvi 200W review

Advantages: easy 2 use. good strong signal, always
Disadvantages: no traffic lights camara warning. out of date maps. bought dec. 08, wont find :new: roads that hav

As a 100.000 mles a year long distance courier driver, a good sat nav is very important to me. updated because my old sat nav, at 3 years old, was getting a bit dated. OLD SAT FINDS ROADS THAT 200W CANT. maps seem 2 be way out of date. the only sat nav that i know off that does not have traffic light camara's warning. had i known this, it would have been the one thing that would have stopped me buying it. Good points? does what a sat nav is made ...

farrell2009 14.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin Nüvi 200W

TomTom really have the market sussed

Advantages: Great customisation features, big clear screen, easy to use
Disadvantages: Battery life, no wall charger included

...This versions of the TomTom includes the latest maps of the UK & Ireland. You can get some TomTom's which have maps of Europe in them, but as I'm not planning on road trip around Europe anytime soon I went for the UK & Ireland version. Another big factor on choosing this one was the fact that the Europe edition was £80 more expensive at the time & after checking just now I noticed they haven't changed in price as I presumed they would have done either. ...
...connect to your phone. My TomTom sometimes stops at 40% for about 20 seconds or so then connects up within about a minute or so or sometimes when it stops at 40% it says connection failed, try again? Which can be very frustrating. A great feature with this sat nav is the voice recognition it comes with, this is especially great if you are driving at the time of operating this & saves you from taking your eyes off the road. It recognises your voice ...

Great_reviewer07 17.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of TomTom GO 520

Sat nav for a bicycle?

Advantages: Effective, efficient and useful - reasonably priced.
Disadvantages: No facility for an easy battery change of replacement.

...Well I chose Garmin as the manufacturer because in my view their maps are better, and their technology reliable. I pondered a Garmin Edge 705 which is specifically designed for cyclists, and comes with cadence measurement and heart rate monitor. Sadly it also comes with a massive price tag - around the £320 mark. So I moved downscale a bit to some of the upper ends of the Garmin family intended for cars. Some have an inbuilt option to give directions ...
...suggestion ! - hence the Garmin Nuvi 205WT. 2 Nuvi out of the box.? There is a craze today for things to be operational straight out of the box. I personally consider this to be both demeaning to the purchaser, and a denial of some of the real thrills of buying new gadhets. The real satisfaction to be found with buying a gadget is in being able to ignore the instructions for as long as possible, seeing how much of the gadget you can get to work ...

trevorbrock 06.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Garmin nuvi 205WT

tom tom one europe

Advantages: ease of use
Disadvantages: none

I have been using the Tom Tom One for over 16months now, so do consider myself an expert on this particular piece of kit! Why did I buy it in the first place - that bit is easy, I travel a lot in a new job and to towns I would have never heard of before - on top of that I had some fantastic inside information that I will share with you. A friend of mine is in the car lease business - everything from Ford to Ferrari! Obviously most of the high end ...
...to their owners all over the country he has used them all, so he is the real expert. Guess what - he always carries his Tom Tom One with him He has become so frustrated with other systems unuserfriendliness (if that is a word) that he sticks with what he considers to be the best - the Tom Tom One. His advice - unless you need the fancy features of the other models - leave them alone and buy this basic. Most of the upgrades of the high end models ...

GASHEAD110 26.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of TomTom ONE Europe