Effective and flexible software from Route 66

Advantages: Simple to use
Disadvantages: No facility to enter own points of interest, adding more maps costs a bit

...I recieved Route 66 Navigate Britain 2004 bundled with a recent purchase of a PDA with built in GPS capabilities. I chose the bundle with Route 66 as it was the cheapest available. Initially skeptical due to the lower- priced software, I would encourage other potential buyers to ignore such stirirngs in your conscious as the software holds its own quite well. It doesn't have many fancy embellishments- you can't add your own points of interest, for example- but it does have all the basic functions that you might need from any PDA- based navigation software: It's easy to set the software up to guide you to your destination, and it automatically uses your current position as a starting point. In 'Navigate' mode, simply add one or more waypoints either by tapping on the map with your stylus, searching for an address in Route 66's...

temporalbandit 31.07.2005 · Read review
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Review of Route 66 Navigate Britain 2004 GPS kit

Route 66 sat nav

Advantages: small, compact, lightweight
Disadvantages: All data kept on SD card which wipes itself upon computer installation

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Review of Route 66 MINI

Use it on route 66 the Motorola V66...

Advantages: Call clarity, GPRS, Data Cable and Software included
Disadvantages: Infra-red port missing, menus not as good as older models..

...Having used Nokia, Samsung, Panasonic, and Motorola Mobile Phones I always find Motorola to be the best, the V66 is no exception? I, recently, convinced the better half to renew her contract with Orange and get a new phone, the Motorola V66, which I then managed to obtain from her since she likes her trusty old Nokia 8210?So I managed to get the phone which by the way cost her nothing as she opted to keep her monthly spend at £25 per month on the precept 200 tariff or whatever it?s called these days, but be aware some places charge upto £100 for the phone depending on the tariff?This isn?t about tariffs so I won?t digress? So why did I wish to change to the new phone from a nice Samsung A300? In short call clarity in the A300 is not what I expect from a mobile in this day and age. Call clarity on the V66 is second to none...

Johnsie 08.06.2002 · Read review
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Review of Motorola V66

That's not my phone ringing, that's my satnav..

Advantages: Fast route calculation, free traffic info and rerouting.
Disadvantages: no speed cameras, quiet voices, poor manual

...Route 66 (www.66.com) offer many flavours of satnav depending on your hardware. There are kits for PocketsPCs and Symbian smartphones (Nokia, Sony Ericsson) with maps covering just Britain or Europe. Mobile Britain 2006 is their latest offering for the Sony Ericsson P910 - as the title suggests the map included in this version is mainland Britain. The cd only version costs just over £100, whilst the version with a supplier GPS receiver costs approx £200. The cd version arrives in a strong plastic CD case that contains the installation cd and license key. The manual is on the cd. The 30 page manual is very basic, though explains simply how to install the program onto your phone, how to pair the software to a GPS receiver, how to receive traffic info, and a guide on how to use the satnav features. It does however miss out...

cootuk 10.08.2005 (11.08.2005) · Read review
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Review of Route 66 Mobile Britain 2006

Get your kicks here, Route 66 ends here!

Advantages: Beautiful views of the pacific ocean and surrounding neighbourhoods
Disadvantages: Can get busy in summer

...When I think of Santa Monica, it's all about the beaches (yes, where they filmed Baywatch apparently) and the pier. To give you some idea of it's importance amongst locals, this pier was built in 1909. Now, at the risk of sounding patronising, most Americans' won't have seen many buildings of this age before. That's because Santa Monica is one of the neighbourhood's in Los Angeles and Los Angeles is all about the here and now, not the long forgotton. So to them, this pier is heritage, and just about as good as that gets! Also, an important fact worth mentioning is that the historical Route 66, made famous by the Rolling Stones, ends just in front of the Pier. Santa Monica Boulevard as it's more commonly known, turns into the busy Santa Monica Freeway and stops virtually right in front of the Pier. When it comes to american...

kevin121 14.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Santa Monica Pier

On Route 66 Get Your Kicks Here

Advantages: Lovely rooms and a delicious hot breakfast for a very reasonable price
Disadvantages: It's in a bit of a boring town

...of Route 66 and it is possible to carry on this route, as we did the next day. There are two Best Western Hotels in Kingman, and they sit almost right across the road from each other. We had a look at room rates etc and found them both to be similar so we literally tossed a coin and picked A Wayfarer's Inn. ***Checking In*** We parked up in the large car park and entered a very welcoming reception area where a gentleman immediately smiled and asked how he could help us. When we told him we were looking for a room for the night, he checked availability and told us the room rates. As we chatted he asked what brought us through Kingman and we told him we were on a tour because it was our honeymoon. No sooner had we mentioned it and we were offered a suite with a king size bed at a discount price. We kindly accepted his offer...

belfin 09.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of A Wayfarer's Inn, Kingman, Arizona

Nokia E66,impressive business phone

Advantages: HSDPA, Wifi, GPS
Disadvantages: No RDS in FM Radio

...Nokia E66 Review I want to share my experience using Nokia E66 mobile phone. This phone has impressive display quality with TFT, 16 M color depth resolution. The screen size is medium size with 2.4 inches diagonal size. The weight of this phone is quite light, around 121 grams. The speaker phone in this mobile phone has standard sound quality. It produced good quality of sound. Nokia E66 also come with audio jack to hear music, make phonecall via head set. Nokia E66 mobile phone also come with 110 MB storage, 128 MB RAM internal memory. If internal memory is not enough, we can expand memory capacity up to 8 giga bytes via expansion slot available on this mobile phone. It has a impressive quality of camera with 3.15 MP, 2048x1536 pixels resolution.The photo quality good both in the shiny and dark condition. The LED also very...

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Review of Nokia E66

Quad 66 CD player is the tops

Advantages: Ease of use, size
Disadvantages: Iffy case?

...This is a review of the Quad 66CD player, not the 66 amplifier. In fact it is my second attempt. The first got lost somewhere into the ether due to a problem with the Ciao site, I think. The 66CD is part of the Quad 66 series of hifi components. The other parts are the 66FM tuner, 66 preamp/control unit, and 606 power amp. There is also the 66 remote control unit which is extremely large, usually called a console. The 66 series was in production from the early 1990s, and only for a few years. None of the components are therefore available to buy new. Unless you're lucky enough to find new old stock, which does happen. The original price was around £800 per unit. The 66CD was in fact Quads very first CD player (originally just called the Quad CD player so it could be used with series 4 which was still in production). Up until this...

simcox1 16.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Quad 66

Cheap and reliable

Advantages: mp3 player, full postcode search, 3d view
Disadvantages: long start-up time, sometimes problems finding a signal

...I'm using it since january 2007. It has Britain and Ireland maps as well as European (major roads). It has never let me down, very easy to use. Got plenty of features: - 3d maps - quite big screen - loud speaker - good quality voice (can connect headphones as well) - very fast calculation of the route and rerouting in case of deviation - safety cameras positioning (can download new positions for free from website) - system that warns you when exceeding speed limit (can be turned off ;) - full GB postcode search - mp3 player - SD card slot - night view - avoid motorways feature - comes with a carry case - possiblity of adding favourite locations - plenty of points of interests (hotels, restaurants, gas stations, etc) - dimensions: 132 x 91 x 22 mm - very light, about 200 gram - distance in km and miles (changable in...

muton 08.08.2007 · Read review
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Review of Route 66 Chicago 6000

Ideal Safari Opportunity on Garden Route

Advantages: Malaria Free Safari, Personal attention, Friendly, Reasonable Price
Disadvantages: Relatively new, Limited numbers of animals

...For our honeymoon we decided to explore the Garden Route but also wanted the opportunity to see as much wildlife as possible without having to fly to Krugar or pay over the odds for the other Malaria Free Game lodges such as Shamwari. So when we found the website for this Game lodge it seemed to be the perfect solution. The Game lodge is located on the N2 approx 350km from Cape Town i.e. about 3 or 4 hours drive. But a warm welcome awaits. The reception area links through to the bar and lounge which then leads out to the lawn area which has loungers and a pool. We chose to stay in a Private Chalet which meant that we got our own little round thatched hut to stay in. These are all spread out round a slope that looks down to a watering hole where if you are lucky you may see some of the animals. Each of the chalets has a large bed...

kate_mustoe 30.06.2006 · Read review
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Review of Garden Route Game Lodge (South Africa)