I have the navman s50 3d which is the 15th sat-nav/gps device I have owned. What attracted me initialy was the cheap price and the 14 multi drop destinatons you can input (I am a multi drop delivery driver). However, I find the touch screen entry of addresses a nightmare to do with the wrong letters being selected quite often (even some being from a couple of inches away on the screen!) Of all of the sat-navs I have used with my job this one only finds about 60% of the streets in my town that I enter (town is over 60 years old with only a few streets that have not been here that long!) This compares with around 95-98% found with all of the other sat-navs I have owned. The navman has bluetooth which enables connection to a suitable mobile phone my iphone 3g initially refused to connect but after an update for the phone connection was established and works well. The microphone built into the navman is a bit on the quiet side with engine noise being a problem drowning out your voice unless you shout a bit.. reception volume however was loud and clear.
The navman has an SD card slot which you can store geo-tagged photos (geo-tagged photoes contain information about the location the picture was taken for navigation to that location)
The navman has safety camera alerts preloaded but I have yet to have it work for me despite several working and long established cameras in my area (my Garmin sat-nav finds them)
The windscreen mount for the navman is a bit fiddly to set up but once in place the unit connects to it easily
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Welcome to Ciao. Nice (if a little brief) first review, with some good information.
Scotsmanmatt 11.08.2008 17:13
So much more information you could have on this product. If you substantially update please let me know and I'll be happy to take another look with a view to re-rating. Thanks
jeaniecz 11.08.2008 17:03
If this is to be a full review, you'd explain how the nav tool works and be more detailled than just saying what are its bad sides. If you update, let me know and I'll re-rate. Radka
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