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TomTom GO 5100 5 inch Sat Nav with World Maps (Sim Card and Unlimited Data Included) - £129.99 @ Amazon Prime
£129.99Amazon Deals
Great price for this all in one unit
WAS £189.99 (and more) NOW £129.99
Built in sim Card
Lifetime Traffic & Worldwide Map updates, no smartphone required.
great Xmas gift
WAS £189.99 (and more) NOW £129.99
Built in sim Card
Lifetime Traffic & Worldwide Map updates, no smartphone required.
great Xmas gift
I followed their instruction to update & my satnav stopped responding. They refused to repair & asking exorbitant price for repair.
Not everyone has a smartphone
Which you would still have to pay for data usage for live traffic. This includes that for the lifetime of the unit
I think most people would be better off using their phone - the people without a smart phone are most likely the people who would use a map anyway. The free navigation apps are getting better and better or then there's the paid services if bells and whistles are needed.
I followed their instruction to update & my satnav stopped responding. They refused to repair & asking exorbitant price for repair.
All depends upon which App you use!
Has Waze now improved, last time I used that when I had no phone signal the satnav did not work. I assume that it now works without a phone signal
Data usage is minimal for live traffic. Really minimal.
Dedicated satnavs are better. I have the tomtom app on my phone and a tomtom. I prefer the tomtom.
Battery drain is minimum these days. Android and IOS are so much better than the bad ol' days.
Lane guidance is on Google Maps
Multipoint navigation is available on Google Maps
Avoiding certain stretches of road, just set Google maps to avoid Motorways, ferrys, etc. Or just turn off the road you wish to avoid.
Seriously, you should try Google maps.
You are right ....updates wreck it. I now just leave it in the car as my last 2 were inoperable after updates...shame as they were great and their engineers can't help and blame firewalls and antivirus, which may be right.
I would buy buy as a great price ,but avoid updates
What advantage does Waze have over Google Maps? After all, when Google bought them out they started integrating the data from Waze (such as traffic and accidents) into Maps
Speed cam
Thanks was ready to buy it literally, but won't do now, I thought with an older unit they would have sorted the bugs out but thats poor poor service and they definitely know its a problem and don't want to pay to fix it. Its cost them a sale from me!
I have no real preference personally, as I use Google maps on my phone, but also have a sat nav in the car, so can choose what's best for me at the time. We are all free to make our own choices.....
Sat navs are so cheap now too that I leave mine permanently attached - no hassle of taking it off the window each time. Just get in and go.
tried that great until you lose signal touch your sat nav you might get away with it but touch your phone ?
As she's a typical teenager she likes to have her iphone free (and she tends to music via Bluetooth anyway), and of course there's the problems with phone battery drain.
Yes its ok in europe but what about rest of world
I know you can pre load mapping for 21 days but its
not as good as having it all there all time
Ive tried many different types of satnav over the years, but keep coming back to tomtom
BTW - Just updated the tomtom maps last week - a faultless procedure & nothing went wrong!
To update my cars mapping would cost £169!!
About 5 years ago I had a tomtom which had 1 years of data free with it - it was brilliant - at least for the 1st year, so this version with unlimted data seems an amazing deal.
Ive tried coupling my phone up with the Go 600 for the 'real time' traffic updates but its such a faff to do as well as quickly draining the phones battery
I also tried just using tomtom on the phone for a while which was fine if walking with it, but when driving its just so much easier if all the road info is presented on a bigger screen.
....well it is with my eyesight anyways
.... and I didnt realise you could use Google Maps to navigate with - that would probably use up all my monthly data across 1 journey
Maps uses a miniscule amount of data. All I can say is, your data allowance must be so small, it's hardly worth having any at all!
As I said, I didnt realise that you could use google maps as a navigation tool, but whenever Ive used streetview (different thing I know) that seems to swallow up my data allowance - 1Gb month (I usually get a data warning after 3 weeks )
Streetview will swallow your data, cus it needs to dwnload photos all the time. Never use streetview while using maps as a satnav