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dougproctor Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 808 Location: The Deep South
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 9:55 pm Post subject: Navman S80i - have I made a mistake? |
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Just bought one from Halfords tonight and asked the guy in there about adding speed camera files and POI's. He said no problem. Heard conflicting reports about whether it has Text to Speech as well? Very important to me.
Now I find out that you cannot even load the full database from here without performance problems because of a 12K POI limit.
Does it have a reasonable POI database on it? Is their camera database usable and is the subscription on a new unit 12 months?
Sorry about the questions but won't open it until I know. My TT 730T is up for sale at the moment so need an answer pretty quickly!!
Doug _________________ Returned to a proper Garmin although still have Co-Pilot on a Galaxy S3! |
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dougproctor Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 808 Location: The Deep South
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 2:31 pm Post subject: |
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Well - returned the unit to Halfords as still not convinced it has TTS. The guy rang Navman CS & Tech Support who said "I'm not sure it has" and that was it. Took a demo unit outside and no - it doesn't!!
So Halfords Q&A on the web is wrong as their web team says it has.
Oh well, a pity but there you are.
Doug _________________ Returned to a proper Garmin although still have Co-Pilot on a Galaxy S3! |
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xtraseller Frequent Visitor
Joined: 15/07/2003 22:59:27 Posts: 1050 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:21 pm Post subject: text to speech |
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You didn't seem to mention the unit purchased
If it is their latest S100T (or a S90i) then either DOES have excellent text to speech facility - other models do not feature tts
The speech camera database is excellent on the S100T providing you don't want mobile, which is personal preferance |
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dougproctor Frequent Visitor
Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 808 Location: The Deep South
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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It was in the title - the Navman S80i - the Deluxe model. The thing that surprised me was that Navman CS did not know either. Really inspiring!
Thanks, I realise the S100 is good but there is a reason that I did not get it but i have forgotten what it was! Oh yes, no bluetooth!
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