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drnh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2004 Posts: 11

Hi all

Ok i`ve only been considering this for 2 days since getting completely lost going to York.

Knowing absolutley nothing about Sat Nav my first visit was to Halfords where i picked up a Navman icn 630 brochure.

I`m not a heavy enough user to pay nearly £1000 BUT i want to spend my money wisely and get a good,long lasting,reliable,accurate and easy-to-use sat nav system.

I have a Palm Tungston and with my limited knowledge now not-so limited i have seen the Navman 4460 system for the palm and Tom Tom Navigator 2.I`ve seen the online demo of the icn 630 and Tom Tom Navigator 2 but havent seen the 4460 in action,it`s really new i think.

My questions are :

1) Which one of these is best to buy given they are both around the £250 mark

2) Can you acutally hear the voice commands properly given the Palm only has a set highest volume,or can you buy an add-on speaker.

3) How often are these things likely to be out of range? does it happen regularly or are they pretty much reliable.

and

4) Should i save and buy a full on Navman icn 630,is it REALLY worth the extra money for somone who needs a "days out" system.

I really hope someone replies

A very confused me!

Many thanks Thumbs Up

MikeB · Posted: Sun Feb 22, 2004 2:13 pm Post subject:

Well first off you dont need to buy an ICN630 to get sat nav, particularly if you have your own PDA already.

You mention you have a tungsten but not the model so I will assume that it is a Tungsten T.

The TomTom software specifies that it will only work with a T3, so that would rule that one out for you.

The NavMan software specifies T2 or T3 so that would rule you out there as well.

There are 2 other options Kirrio which uses Mapsonic from Michlen or Kane Car Pilot both of which support any Palm OS5 PDA.

Secondly the voice commands are audible (just) at motorway speeds (on T2 and T3). There are a number of things you can do to improve them, including buying a pda holder with a built in amplifier such as the Seidio Multimedia mount reviewed
here

Out of range doesnt happen as you are picking up signals from space. What does happens sometimes is that due to your local environment that the signals will be weak, such as when you are in a town surrounded by skyscrapers. This can occasionally block the signal, or reflect is and give a slightly off position. With the receivers nowadays this is becoming a rarer occurrance. Of course there will be no reception in a tunnel.

Personal choice would see me not buying a 630 but using a PDA and GPS combination. This is more flexible and more suited to my needs.
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drnh · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 22, 2004 Posts: 11

Thats cleared alot up for me,thanks Mike!

You are correct it`s a Palm Tungston T,never use the

anyway so thought it`d be an idea to breath a bit of life back into it,think i`ll carry on using it as a dust attractor though now!! Smile

Seriously though.After visiting this wonderful site,looking at the sponsored links and checking their prices i could buy a new ipac 5500(which i presume is pretty good) with the Navman GPS gismo etc etc for around the £500 mark so that`d save me a decent ammount and i get a new fangled ipac at the same time.

I`ve weighed up the comments on here and Amazon and although TOM TOM has some fantastic reviews i`m left a little bit doubtful about it`s superiority over a NAVMAN equipped gps system.

The lack of postcodes,places missing from it`s data bank,roads missing etc and the fact that NAVMAN seems to be THE choice for all of the USA has me swinging in it`s direction.

My reasoning for the likes of a icn 630 was purely just the plug and go factor,not needing to load anything in(being JUST computer literate and NOT pda literate at all).But you know your stuff so i think i`ll take your advice and serioulsy consider the(pda) ipac route with a gps bundle.

Do they come software loaded and are they really just plug and play?

And do i need an all singing dancing top spec ipac 5500 or can i get away with a lesser model?

I dont know an ipac from a tik tak to be honest so could do with a bit of guidance on this way of doing things.

Again Mike many thanks for un-tangling the sat nav web i`m in! Thumbs Up

joe-rogers · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:16 am Post subject:

I have a Tungsten E with a Kirrio pda holder, would the Seidio Multimedia mount work with it, or do you know of any that would work?

Joe

icsys · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 12:34 am Post subject:

If you are really erring towards Navman and you want a plug n go unit have a look at the iCN510.
It has many of the features of it's bigger brothers (iCN635/650) but costs much less.

There are further details here and also a review here
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