First look at the S300T

AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

Well just had a good play with the new S300T from Navman at the Sydney Motor Show. Hopefully mine should arrive within the next week or so.

Here are the main points that I noticed while looking at the unit.

•The unit looks a lot better in design than the older S90i, liked the raised Navman brand name on the back.
•Mount is a lot better. Shouldn’t have the same problem as the S90i when connecting.
•The glide touch screen as discussed by Captaindrift does indeed take some time to get use to but work very well.
•The Australian version now does have post code search.
•When looking for POI’s in the Live Local Search area the name of the place as well as the phone number is shown with a small map. All you have to do is tap the phone number and if you have the unit linked to a cell phone it will dial the number.
•Liked the Location Capture button. Very handy when either saving a great place or saving a mistake in the mapping.
•The advanced lane guidance is the best I have seen. The screen comes up with a picture of exactly the lane that you are supposed to be in. No more mistakes
•3D Landmarks will still take me awhile to get used to.
•The last thing that interested me was the way in which My Places could be stored. Either by date, name etc.

The only 2 points that I did not like about the unit was the main screen. The colours really get in your face.

The other is that a present there is no way to change the map colours. Must be the way that Navteqs does their mapping. The maps were clear though.

Will get back to you all with a full write up after I have put my own through its paces.
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Tony

Navman S300T
Build - 6.01.0101
BuildTime - 23/12/2008
SmartST 2009 - Navteq Australian Maps

Sydney Australia

Gee-Pee · Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject:

I guess we in the UK will just have to wait and see what navman are going to come up with here - or not. Both their new S100 and the European Mio Moov devices are still using teleAtlas, so I guess they are/will be different devices to yours. Enjoy!
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So, AJ53, how do you like you new device. Have you found any problems or, conversly, new innovative features?
Gee-Pee
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AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

Gee-Pee · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 10:16 am Post subject: S300T user review

Thanks for that. Whilst this unit is not available in the UK, it might reflect some of the qualities of Naman's latest unit here, the S100 - on sale from last weekend. Similarly, european units from Mio which merged with Navman earlier this year, and which use (I believe) the Navman software.

Graham
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AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

Gee-Pee · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 9:53 am Post subject:

That's a shame! Perhaps it is just a glitch with your particular device - let's hope so and that Navman sort it quickly. It's little things like this that will test Navman. If they sort it quickly, and it turns out to be a one-off, then it's just an irritation, but if it is more common, then that's worrying.

Have a look at the next thread here

on the report of our new S100 and see how that works out.
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AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

[quote="Gee-Pee"]That's a shame! Perhaps it is just a glitch with your particular device - let's hope so and that Navman sort it quickly. It's little things like this that will test Navman. If they sort it quickly, and it turns out to be a one-off, then it's just an irritation, but if it is more common, then that's worrying.

Hi Gee-Pee
Well after talking to Navman and telling them the problem their support team was very quick with a response. I received another brand new sealed unit today.

The unit has been restored with all my options and so far working correctly. (Well done Navman Support)
I will keep you up to date with this unit.
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Tony

Navman S300T
Build - 6.01.0101
BuildTime - 23/12/2008
SmartST 2009 - Navteq Australian Maps

Sydney Australia

AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

DGreen · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 10:52 am Post subject:

Hi AJ53,

Thanks for your running review of your new S300T.

I am wanting to procure a S300T through the present trade-in promotion that is being offered here in Australia. The only hold up in ordering one at present is getting some guarantee of when the Western European maps will be available for the S300T. (I use the European maps twice a year, so I want to make sure I have them prior to my next OS visit early 2009).

At present I have a PiN300 and an S90i and the older unit is always in my luggage as an insurance policy against any untoward loss of failure whilst OS. Hence trading in the PiN300 and not getting Western European maps in time leaves me a little uncomfortable.

In regards to your mention that no extra colour schemes, I have played around with these with my S90i and have pretty good knowledge of how they are structured. If the S300T follows the same principals and file structures as the rest of the S-Series then all my not be lost in modifying the colour scheme.

I am interested to know if, on the S300T, a folder exists called "MapCols". this should be found under the path "Program Files/Navman/SmartST_CE/". If the folder does exist, are there any files in that folder with "col" and "png" extensions. If any files exist, the chances are that the colour schemes from the S90i etc may well work, (or modify the existing .col file), with an adjustment made to the "settings" file that is also located in the folder "UserData" with the same path as above.

Best Regards,
Denis Green
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SmartST 2008 - Australian Maps, Pan European Maps
Navman S300T, MY-55T
SmartST 2009 - Australian Maps, Western & Eastern European Maps

AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

DGreen · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2009 11:54 am Post subject:

Hi All,

Today I finally received my S300T. It's been a while coming, but as mentioned previously, I wasn't too keen on trading in my old PiN300 till the new Western European maps had been released. (These are now on order, and hopefully by end of next week I should have all received and installed).

Having had little time to play, at this point, I was surprised the ease of transferring all my favourites from my S90i to the S300T. It was just a case of copying the favourites file from one to the other. (I did backup first, Laughing Out Loud

). Hopefully I shall be able to copy the avoid areas etc in much the same way. Also, now I can look at the colour schemes as has been mentioned previously.

With the sweltering HOT weather continuing here over the weekend, I shall stay comfortably inside for the duration and be able to play with the new toy.

I shall report back on my findings.

Regards,
Denis
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SmartST 2008 - Australian Maps, Pan European Maps
Navman S300T, MY-55T
SmartST 2009 - Australian Maps, Western & Eastern European Maps

AJ53 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Oct 16, 2005 Posts: 36

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