What to buy?

bloater · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 01, 2004 Posts: 91

First post, so go easy on me please.

I am looking at purchasing a navigation kit, and would appreciate some advice from the experts (current users).

I have more or less settled on the Tomtom navigator 3 running on an HP IPAQ, some quite good deals on HP 2210 with the software. The question, is this the best solution?

Should I consider the software on a Palm based machine instead? Should I consider the new piece of kit on the rz machine (slower processor).

The wife quite likes the idea of a windows based pda, but what is best. Also should I go for the bluetooth, or the wired solution? All these questions, hopefully you guys can provide some advice.

Thanks for your help, and I realise that I will get conflicting advice, but anything is better than making a £500 mistake.

Cheers,

Gary

amcluesent · Posted: Mon Nov 01, 2004 10:10 pm Post subject:

>The question, is this the best solution?<

The question of questions... Wink

From my experience of running an iPaq 3870with TT3 -

1) If you are happy tinkering with gadgets then go for an iPaq and TT3. If you are more of the just plug it in mind-set then look at the TomTom GO, dare one say more likely to appeal to her indoors?

2) The 3870 is just about OK for re-route thinking time etc. I'd be looking at a 400Mhz processor and a fast memory card to minimise delays.

3) The 3900 series iPaq was the last to have a quality speaker for voice directions. With later iPaqs you might seen a powered mount with its own loadspeaker.

4) I use rental cars a lot so need a GPS sleeve. If I was using my own car, I'd go for a wired-in bluetooth GPS, and use TomTom Traffic with a bluetooth phone to get traffic alerts. Otherwise you have TT navigating you into motorway jams etc. which is silly.

5) Can't see any benefit in going for a Palm...

6) TT3 maps are well out of date, no M6 toll road for example which TTGO has.

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