SatNav Advice

[Guest Dr Who]

Hola,

so I have never used any form of SatNav, actually not quite true I once drove a car with it built in and it was truly magical, and therefore now absolutely nowt. I may be getting a job in the near-mid future that would necessitate a lot of driving and I was wondering what the best SatNav solution would be. Would the best choice to be get TomTom or something like, for my phone (whatever brand or platfrom that may be) or a discrete SatNav system? Typically I would be doing the same route day in day out and would like one that could warn of traffic snarl ups and suggest alternative routes? I once got a taxi a long time ago that had a system that could warn of traffic but I don't think it had navigation. I was just wondering if this exists and if so, can you get it on a phone?

Any and all advice, comments and pointers are very welcome.

[Guest Dr Who]

Going........up.

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Top floor; mobile phones, PDA's and questions answered.

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[Guest Miniman99]

Guess it depends on your criteria. I have TomTom on my C500. It all works well and I have used it many times. However the C500 screen is quite small and the speed, eta, and other info at the bottom are very small. Maps and directions are all ok.

So I guess a dedicated or PDA version of a SatNav would be easier to read.

A traffic add on exists for TT, but I don't have that. Not sure about other SatNav's.

Along with this I also use the phone/BT GPS unit as a pure GPS system. So for a pure speed camera warning system (like the CamerAware that Modaco Paul has designed) as some route I don't need to be told where to go and just want to be reminded of camera and these apps usually have better features. You'd probably only get that with a Smartphone or PDA and the dedicated units wouldn't be able to run anything else.

[Guest Dr Who]

Cheers Miniman. If Tom Tom has a traffic package that sounds appealing but I guess it needs GPRS or 3G to work. I'll have look and see what gives.