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November 22nd 2007, 10:01 PM #1
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Male - ChristianGPS navigation
I'm looking to get my mom a simple GPS navigation system to use in the car. She's not very tech savvy so it needs to be easy to use; voice turn by turn and all.
What suggestions do you guys have?Freedom means love without condition, without a beginning or an end.-FIF
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November 23rd 2007, 11:10 PM #2
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Male - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
I've got a Garmin Nuvi that works really nicely. (I got the Nuvi 310)
It's really simple to use, it does voice turn by turn, autorouting, plays mp3's and ebooks, does handsfree for my cellphone. If you get the more expensive models of Nuvi they will also attempt to pronounce the street names, not just say "turn left here"
Nuvi 310
Nuvi 770
All the Garmin automotive models
I don't like Tom-Tom, but that's because they don't have coverage for South Africa, and have only just produced maps for NZ (and I can't get NZ maps for my iPaq).
Same goes for Route 66.
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November 25th 2007, 04:06 AM #3
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Female - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
No South Africa? Well crap, I drive to South Africa every day, rules it out for me :0
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November 25th 2007, 01:53 PM #4
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Male - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
Originally posted by Darth Xena
I was living in South Africa at the time. So is was a major thumbs down for me.
Garmin and Route66 have decent maps for SA, but Route66 has no maps for New Zealand
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November 25th 2007, 01:55 PM #5
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Female - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
I just found it funny 'cause prolly 99% of the readers are in North America so it was like, "oh crap, no South Africa!!! You've got to be kidding me
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November 25th 2007, 01:56 PM #6
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Female - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
and no one cares about NZ - they can't even get the seasons straight and don't know what a pancake is
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November 25th 2007, 02:16 PM #7
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Male - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
Hah, that's because not enough of them are going on missions to Africa Originally posted by Darth Xena
I just found it funny 'cause prolly 99% of the readers are in North America so it was like, "oh crap, no South Africa!!! You've got to be kidding me!"
Just because South Island has like only 2 weeks of summer. Originally posted by Darth Xena
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November 25th 2007, 02:30 PM #8
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Male - ChristianRe: GPS navigation
back to GPS
The Register had a review of the top 5 GPS units they reckon people should be asking Santa for.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11...p_five_models/
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