Destinator PN or TT5

[wibs]

I have just purchased Destinator 3 on Acer n35. I am not too happy with the software and am considering Destinator PN or Tom Tom 5. I want UK and France primarily. Any views?
Thanks,
Mike

[kiwiruss]

I've been using Destinator 3 (US) for a few months and was hoping they would do more with thier destinator1.com website. they talked up the skins and other stuff but the site is dead , stagnant... stale as Al Gores comedy.

Im thinking of switching to tomtom 5 also.

[h5djr]

I've been using Destinator PN for several months now and apart from some small problems with the manual moving of the maps on myiPAQ 4700, it has worked very well. I've used it it UK, France, Germany and Austria and it has found and navigated to where ever I have asked it to.

I tried a version of TT3 before Destinator and it could not even find the address where my mother has lived in the UK for the past 60 years. It also could not find the hotel or for that matter the road for the hotel where I stayed in Austria.

Dave R

[jimbo_hippo]

I've had issues with Navman SmartST V3 to eventually be told its not supported on my phone. (Orange spv m2000). My supplier Handnav, tried to sort it with Navman but they're not having it so Chetan over there has kindly agreed to exchange it. Commendable I would say.

In the interim I tried a colleague's TomTom Navigator 5 and loved it. After Navman, the user intterface was a dream and the software has never crashed once on long trips around the country so I'm tempted to go for it. BUT!!! TomTom Navigator 5 with European maps is about £140.00 whereas Navigator PN is about £95.00. Thats a serious difference in price!

So the question is whether the less intuitive 'manual-studying' Navigator interface gets easier as you get used to it.

Its an ongoing problem with Nav software. You don't really find out what its like until you've parted with your cash so no wonder the 'which GPS software is best' question pops up like a bad penny in all forums.

So, anyone who has used Navigator PN AND TomTom navigator 5 and wishes to give me a bit of help as to whether I should pay the difference? :-)

And to try and help, I will be travelling in Europe a lot in the next 12 months. I'd like to be able to use full postcodes. I missed the wrong direction audible warning that was in Navman (about all I missed!). But perhaps the one thing I'd like most is to find compatability with, and an actual program that lets me press a big fat button that says 'business miles' and log the departure point, the end point and total miles into a file I can do my expenses in easily! Seems so simple but no-one does it! Tried Travel-I but it kept giving me speed camera warnings and popping up over my Nav screen!

So any feedback from users would be helpful.

[jimbo_hippo]

I keep refering to Navigator PN when of course I mean Destinator PN. Looks like I need to be 'navigated' to a holiday

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