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Montala Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Leominster
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject: StreetPilot i5 |
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Hi,
Just been reading about the new StreetPilot i5 on Garmin's website.
All it seems to offer over the i3 is some additional built in mapping... and a silver/grey screen surround... or am I missing something here?
I know that is not yet available here in the UK, but if (when!) it is, it would not appear to give any added benefit to users who are not going to require route mapping facilities outside of the UK mainland. |
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Willie_Ekaslike Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 10, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Watford, Herts
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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The gumff on the i5 states..
Built-in Flash memory for storing preloaded map data.
Which the i3 doen't have. _________________ Willie ~0^0~
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zogman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 1417 Location: swindon uk
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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the i5 is for the usa market at the moment.whether it will come to the uk remains to be seen.. _________________ *************************** |
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Montala Regular Visitor
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 155 Location: Leominster
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Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:13 pm Post subject: |
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Perhaps it won't, as I can't really see that it would have any great appeal to the majority of UK users who are not that interested in having extended information for the rest of Europe, or wherever, immediately available.
No doubt it will attract a price premium over the i3 anyway, (were it ever to actually be sold in the UK), which in itself would make it a harder purchase to justify.
Mind you, I do prefer the silver surround! |
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spaddy Occasional Visitor
Joined: Nov 17, 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: |
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I just bought the i5 here in the usa, works great but needs external antenna which i have ordered from ebay.
$$ 499.00 for i5 and $24.00 for antenna
Montala wrote: | Perhaps it won't, as I can't really see that it would have any great appeal to the majority of UK users who are not that interested in having extended information for the rest of Europe, or wherever, immediately available.
No doubt it will attract a price premium over the i3 anyway, (were it ever to actually be sold in the UK), which in itself would make it a harder purchase to justify.
Mind you, I do prefer the silver surround! |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15140 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:48 am Post subject: |
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using an i3 in america if you drive cross-state would mean having to reload the data for each state onto the memory card. the i5 gets round this by having internal memory (4gb i think?) so that the map data for the whole of the usa can be stored on it. if the i5 comes out in europe i assume it would just have full euro maps so you wouldn't need to buy extra eu country memory cards.
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zogman Frequent Visitor
Joined: Sep 05, 2005 Posts: 1417 Location: swindon uk
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Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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i agree with MaFt..if the i5 comes to the uk it will probaly be a 'euro' gps with all of europe loaded on it... _________________ *************************** |
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mcintyre Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 30, 2005 Posts: 49 Location: Mirfield
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Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject: |
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zogman wrote: | i agree with MaFt..if the i5 comes to the uk it will probaly be a 'euro' gps with all of europe loaded on it... |
Which would be great for those of us that regularly travel across Europe to Portugal, France and Germany... |
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