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m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

ok had the usual smashed window and satnav gone Sad

left my van for about a minute and came back and they'd long gone.

stole my beautiful 910 and the mount (off the windscreen Embarassed

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anyway, I really need a new one for my job.

I loved the TTS on the 910, do any of the new models have it?

dont need euro maps yet (could upgrade next year if nec)

any offers about?

thanks
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technik · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

http://www.best-satnav-deals.co.uk/

520/720 has TTS

Wazza_G · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:24 pm Post subject:

Try Amazon:

A TTG 720 (as @ 21h35 24/10/07) £259.40

A TTG 520 (as @ 21h35 24/10/07) £234.99

Both with FREE delivery or if you want it next day add approx £8 to those prices.

Still that's a £260 penalty + glass.

m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

autoglass wanted £260, got it done at a dealer for £99, bit of a difference!

Think I may go the Pda route, cause it will be easier to slip in the pocket.

Does the pda one have full post code search?
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Andy_P · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:44 pm Post subject:

I'd still look at the 520/720. They are MUCH slimmer than the old models. Would slip in the pocket a treat.
And I don't think you'll get TTS on a PDA version will you?

m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

technik · Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:57 pm Post subject:

m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

thanks, I'll take a look
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m623d · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 191

OK, I can get the 520 for £220.49 from Dixons, is this a good price? or are they about to drop in price in the next week?
I see Halfords are selling off loads of satnav's very cheap (910's for £130) but most branch's have sold them all (no suprise there!)

And finally, is the only difference between the 520 and the 720 the euro maps?

ps how does the speech recognition work in practise?

Thanks
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DennisN · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

Difference is map and memory I think. Obviously the memory is adequate for the UK map, but you'd have problems if you wanted Euro map in future - it'd only be useable from an SD card, not the internal memory.

Speech recognition is in its early days. You can only just start using it for navigation instructions - select it after first tapping and going for navigate, then choosing speech, then you can only speak the city name, the street name and the house number, then you're back to tapping. At the number stage, the recognition often goes into fits and you have to try hard, or revert to tapping for the number. It's not great, but it has great potential - maybe in a few software updates' time? It's a real surprise and disappointment that it isn't better - having decided to have this feature, surely TT could have benefited from elsewhere? Speech recognition for typing is very old by now and they're only needing to recognise the pre-loaded words already in the device (maps or other stuff). I mean, even phones will do voice dialling won't they?
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Darren · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:39 pm Post subject:

DennisN · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:37 am Post subject:

alix776 · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:59 pm Post subject:

most pdas will tkae a 2gb card but with tomtom youll be on v6 and opposed to v7 have you considered a pda/phone something like an htc artimis or one of the operator varients or the htc kaiser both have gps built in to them
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