Navman S30 3D Satnav

Advantages: Good sound quality, Excellent re-route calculation.
Disadvantages: Gets a litte confused in busy cities due to the volume of roads.

...With the low price satnav market becoming saturated, i found it difficult to find a satnav that would suit me. Someone i knew had one of the older Navman models so i thought i would buy the updated version. Navman's new baby navigator, the S30 3D has its work cut out to compete in such a tough market, so it's good to see that it has got the most important thing right and set the price at a competitive level. The navman can be bought for under £100 which is much less than the equivalent Tomtoms and Garmin's which start at around £150. Its not only the price that makes this product better than the rest. One thing that you will not find on other equivalent satnavs is the feature that not only gives you the direction by voice, but shows the next direction with an icon in the top left hand corner. As well as this, it will give you...

lukealdridge89 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Canon S200

Advantages: cheap, compact, durable
Disadvantages: bit of an ink-guzzler

...I came across the Canon S200 a little over two years ago in the PC World sale when, as a student, I was looking for a cheap but reliable bit of kit to keep those coursework essays churning out (I'd rather have had an extra half hour in bed than race to college to 'bag' a printer in the IT lab...hm, not much has changed I fear). Not only did I quite fancy the price-tag (just under 30 quid), I was attracted to the S200's size - it's small enough to perch on the corner of my desk without taking up too much precious space otherwise needed for books, papers, cups of tea, elbows etc... [dimensions excluding feeder tray = 16 x 16 x 35cm approx.] The printer came with a USB cable and easy-to-install CD-Rom driver. The CD also contains an electronic manual that can be installed for later consultation (although personally I'd have preferred...

disneyeyes 08.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Canon S 200

Logitect does it again with the S200!

Advantages: Cheap, Good looking for the price, Compact, Great sound
Disadvantages: None!

...Who hasn't heard of Logitech? They have essentially become a household brand, with their ground-breaking products that offer functionality at a low cost to the consumer. Recent reviews that have praised Logitech's balance of cost and performance have covered their Webcams, Speakers, Mice and Keyboards, and a lot of other peripherals to boot. So they seem to have a hold on the market, don't they? Well, that should continue as long as Logitech continue to manufacture products such as the S200. Let's start with the aesthetics of the S200s. They come in a rather smart black and silver finish, which may look tacky but is actually very smart in the flesh. They feel solid to the touch, and very robust if dropped (I accidentaly did this but please don't!). A headphone and microphone socket are both included on one sattelite...

mattyprice4004 28.08.2006 · Read review
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Review of Logitech S-200

S200 - Basic Budget Printer that gets the job done

Advantages: Very cheap to buy and run, compact.
Disadvantages: Print quality not brilliant, a little flimsy.

...I purchased a Canon S200x printer as a stop-gap measure when my absolutely dreadful Epson 680 gave up for good (a definite blessing in disguise!). I have since upgraded to the brilliant Canon i560 (which I have also reviewed) but used the S200 for a few months whilst I saved up for a better one. The printer cost me less than £40 from the superb ebuyer.com - this is especially excellent when you consider that cartridges (unofficial) for the printer can be purchased for about £3 each! Sometimes budget printers like these sting you later on the cartridges but with this unit, the cost is low and stays low! Unpacking the printer, you'll notice it is fairly compact and light, and also feels rather tacky and plasticky. The printer is mostly standard beige, with the front cover in a green/grey effect. It doesn't look too bad, but not too...

tomhughes 26.06.2004 · Read review
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Nikon Coolpix S200

Advantages: Functions well in daylight; looks good and is fairly compact
Disadvantages: Picture quality is middle-of-the-road; is awful in low light

...The Nikon Coolpix is a good-looking camera; that is not to be doubted. I was initially very pleased with it, but have since been a little underwhelmed. Although I think Nikon are a very good company who on the whole turn out some excellent products, I am unconvinced that the S200 is one of their best pieces of work. My main gripes are twofold. Firstly, I do not think that the picture quality is anything better than average, and there are certainly better options out on the market elsewhere - I believe Olympus cameras to be very strong in this regard. Secondly, despite the emphasis on its high ISO settings in the marketing for the product, I have been unimpressed by the camera's ability to take photographs in anything much less than broad daylight. The only way that a photo with remotely decent resolution can be taken is...

salar15 11.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Nikon Coolpix S200

S-200

Advantages: Price, Sound
Disadvantages: Satillites feel light

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coopsta133 03.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Logitech S-200

canon s200

Advantages: cheap to buy, very cheap to run
Disadvantages: crap output, slow

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donley 23.09.2007 · Read review
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Review of Canon BJC S200

A great value Satnav

Advantages: User friendley, clear directions.
Disadvantages: Doesnt explain how to update very well.

..., distances are also stated for example: "in the next 8th of a mile turn left". This is a useful feature and the navman F20 makes it hard to miss any junction. The graphics are good, with nice large maps and arrows indicating the route directions. Some minor faults are that my Navman doesnt recognise some streets and needs to be updated. The instructions in the provided booklet arent clear on how to go about this. Also when I found the download for an update on the Navman website my pc didnt allow me to do the download, so I need to buy software to do this at an extra cost. The Navman F20 only has two voices to choose from, male and female... so if you find them annoying your stuck with it for the length of your journey. Other Satnavs provide a variety of voices to choose, however to be fair, I dont mind the voices the F20 has. I found...

colette1000 04.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Navman F20

Are we there yet? Navman iCN520

Advantages: Lovely maps and Intuitive
Disadvantages: 4-digit Postcodes and POI alerts are just not good enough

...camera. The Points of Interest (POIs) part of the SatNav allows you to upload the locations of Safety cameras used to monitor the possibly more hazardous places on your route so you can be apprised of any of these locations and the maximum speed limits that are in force. I found this function next useless on both the new iCN 520s I bought and usually alerted me to places after or as I was passing them rather than giving me prior warning. This was a fault that I could not rectify even by repeatedly reinstalling the software and buying another one to see if this was a one off. It wan not a one off and the situation was only resolved by chancing upon some Tom Tom 5 software that I could load onto the Navman iCN 520 and this both cured the POI alert problem and provided me with full 8-digit postcodes for locations. The Navman iCN 520 maps are...

bigdoug 25.02.2009 · Read review
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Review of Navman ICN 520

  A to B the Easy Way - the Navman iCN 520

Advantages: Small, portable, reasonable price
Disadvantages: 5 character post code search; windscreen reflection

...************** Introduction ************** Satellite Navgation (or Sat-Nav) is one of the latest 'in gadgets'. Still an expensive optional extra for your car, the portable unit is gaining ground as the new king of car accessories. It is substantially cheaper in portable variety with offerings starting at around £200. Buy a portable unit and move it from car to car, and even use it whilst walking about town - find that elusive street and restaurant. The principles are simple - a small antennae built in to the unit picks up the signals from 3 or more US military GPS (global positioning satellites). You need three to get a precise location fix. This is fine providing the US never decide to turn of the free signal that they send the world over. The detail is in a clever bit of software that takes carefully mapped local road data...

a4angus 15.11.2005 · Read review
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