Looket G8 sat nav

marcostheblack · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 05, 2008 Posts: 1

Does anyone have any ifo in this sat nav? It's on sale in misco for just under £60. Can it run tomtom or miomaps?

Atasas · Banned Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 9

Looket G8 Review:
brand newly on the market G8 priced at under £60 at misco turns out to be a real deal!
As I did not find a decent review, before I bought it, have been a bit hesitant... got a surprise! I have had been testing SatNav's as TomTom 1; Lg; Garmin; RAC; Sony and have found enourmous differences in they funcionality. Whilst some where good at some areas, others where exeding in othrs, some whre complete failure- not this time!
From the beggining, As I've opened the box two dissapointments- no home charger or PC connectivity cable, had to find the spare Hitachi one (5V)- worked a treat! Turned on, menu as simple as it it should be, verry funcional and set up did take no longer than two minutes. For a testing of it straight away to the meeting and Entering the Post code some clever- ( not to my taste)feature as Zip Code search gving a letter (Or Two) and Digit (or two) once entered beggining of a post code it asked for a First letters of the Name of destination. Worked out just fine in 6 locations visited today, but would be an issue to ie courrier with incorrect names or Post Codes.
The surprise that I've discovered is in its heart (Samsung 400mhz CPU)- Very fast indeed and really did keep up with roundabouts and my traveling speed.
Build qality I can see to be of a decent manufacturing, components and materials, the screen do'nt seem to tough enough for long time abuse with sharp nails or fatty fingers, but time will tell.
On a summary- a bargain for normal user! not for professional though (I would recomend TomTom for those at Triple the price) and despite slacking it in areas spoted as much as I can, there is no better value for money SatNav today!

Atasas · Banned Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 9

updated soft is much better (post code search is much more advanced since allowed to enter (instead of 3'rd digit after two letters) a consiquent letter of post code!) ... hope it explains...
Languages updated (instaed of female squicking decent male voice)
Some additional settings are no more (nothing of importance)
Basicly my rating now 8/10! (very very good!)

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ianrm · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject:

Any idea what mapping is used (is it Navteq?) - I live in Northern Ireland and Navteq seems to be the only one with 100% coverage

if you could have a quick look I'd be grateful

thanks

ianrm

MaFt · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject: Re: Looket G8 sat nav

mikealder · Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

Mr_T · Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:50 am Post subject:

Mike,
How are you getting on with your Looket G8?
Is it as feature rich as the specs are saying?
Does it really work well, is it reliable?
Have you found maps of Europe for it yet?
Is it Teleatlas or Navteq maps?

Much obliged for your answers thoughts and views.
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krayZpaving · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 28, 2008 Posts: 4

I've just got the Looket G8. Haven't test-run it yet, but it uses Sygic Drive running on Windows CE 5. The maps are McGuider, so they're Teleatlas based.

They've their own POI format, .upi files, but there's a translator that will rip POIs in .ov2 (TomTom binary) format to/from .upi. POIedit will give you files in .ov2 format.

SEJ016 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Posts: 7

I just bought the LooketG8 from Misco for under £50. As suggested it uses Sygic/Teleatlas mapping and McGuider will work with it straight from the box.

SEJ

mikealder · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 8:15 pm Post subject:

Please don't bragg about using Torrent feeds on here, we have a very strict policy against software piracy - it is theft and not welcome, I removed part of the previous post for that very reason - Mike

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Atasas · Banned Joined: May 18, 2007 Posts: 9

Whole thread resurrection!?
anybody got additional maps running or other Apps in full?

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