"DanB" schreef in bericht
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"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of ****e?

If you're ok spending £150 on a Sat Nav to be fair, you may as well just
get one of the big name ones, as frankly (and not just snobbery) they are
better IME. The software is better, they don't crash, better screens etc
etc. I have a Tom Tom One XL Europe - I think it was about that price, it
has speed cameras on from PocketGPSWorld, and maps of UK and Europe.
Seems to do everything you want from a Nav, except I can't look back at
stats of the journey like max speed and stuff after I'm done. Which is
of course quite irrelevent, but sometimes would be mildly amusing heh.
Unless I can do it and I just haven't found the option - which is of
course of a possibility.

I'm fairly sure that if you update the firmware to the latest version, it
has a tracking type thing in it... hold on....
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Yes it does. There's a statistics option now. It does average speed,
distance, max speed and how long it's been on the move. Mine is a TomTom
Rider 1.

"Spete" wrote in message
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"DanB" schreef in bericht
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"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of
****e?

If you're ok spending £150 on a Sat Nav to be fair, you may as well just
get one of the big name ones, as frankly (and not just snobbery) they are
better IME. The software is better, they don't crash, better screens etc
etc. I have a Tom Tom One XL Europe - I think it was about that price,
it has speed cameras on from PocketGPSWorld, and maps of UK and Europe.
Seems to do everything you want from a Nav, except I can't look back at
stats of the journey like max speed and stuff after I'm done. Which is
of course quite irrelevent, but sometimes would be mildly amusing heh.
Unless I can do it and I just haven't found the option - which is of
course of a possibility.

I'm fairly sure that if you update the firmware to the latest version, it
has a tracking type thing in it... hold on....
..
...

Yes it does. There's a statistics option now. It does average speed,
distance, max speed and how long it's been on the move. Mine is a TomTom
Rider 1.




Ah cheers for the tip, I'll look into that then :-)

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Lordy.UK wrote:

That's the sort of thing I'm wondering about. No good having an
all singing all dancing thing for feck all if you can't update
it or it ****s up.

As with a lot of Aldi's bargains, the P4220 is a discontinued unit,
hence being given to them to flog off cheap. I like the Medion units
though, always worked fine for me (although I've only used the PPC
versions). They were always good value for money, but - now that prices
have dropped across the board - £150 is a fair chunk on a budget SatNav
these days, you should be able to get something decent a fair bit
cheaper than that.

Just depends how important EU maps & TM is to you...

IME, TMC is useless. I shouldn't have bothered getting it for mine.
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"Bob Sherunckle" wrote in message
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"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of ****e?


Or
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131342

60 quid
Full 7 digit postcode search
Plays MP3s
Plays MP4s

And easily hackable to run that 'evluation' copy of tomtom that may or may
not be available in torrent format.

Mmm, tricky...

I'm quite tempted to have something that just works. I've got enough things
that need a bit of tinkering. OTOH that is ****ing cheap and I'd not be
heartbroken if it got nicked. How much meddling is required to make it run
tomtom? Are Sat navs now basically PDAs with a GPS device inside?

"DanB" wrote in message
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"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of ****e?

If you're ok spending £150 on a Sat Nav to be fair, you may as well just
get one of the big name ones, as frankly (and not just snobbery) they are
better IME. The software is better, they don't crash, better screens etc
etc. I have a Tom Tom One XL Europe - I think it was about that price, it
has speed cameras on from PocketGPSWorld, and maps of UK and Europe.
Seems to do everything you want from a Nav, except I can't look back at
stats of the journey like max speed and stuff after I'm done. Which is
of course quite irrelevent, but sometimes would be mildly amusing heh.
Unless I can do it and I just haven't found the option - which is of
course of a possibility.

That's what I'm beginning to think. The big extra over other £150 sat navs
seems to be EU mapping, but I know that sometimes gets bundled for free with
sat navs.

"Doki" wrote in message
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"Bob Sherunckle" wrote in message
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"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of
****e?


Or
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/131342

60 quid
Full 7 digit postcode search
Plays MP3s
Plays MP4s

And easily hackable to run that 'evluation' copy of tomtom that may or
may not be available in torrent format.

Mmm, tricky...

I'm quite tempted to have something that just works. I've got enough
things that need a bit of tinkering. OTOH that is ****ing cheap and I'd
not be heartbroken if it got nicked. How much meddling is required to make
it run tomtom? Are Sat navs now basically PDAs with a GPS device inside?

Yes

I believe that Mr Tony Bond has done this with the Navigo - he's the boy to
speak to.

"Doki" wrote in message
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Aldi have got a spacknav in.

http://www.medion.de/ms/aldi/md96920/uk/flash.html

It's £150 quid, has Trafficmaster, camera locations, maps for what looks
like most of western europe etc. Good value or an oddball piece of ****e?

but but you can a "proper" one for less

http://www.dixons.co.uk/product.php?sku=043233&camp_id

or

http://tinyurl.com/63norl

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Sukida SK90PY
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"SteveH" wrote in message
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Lordy.UK wrote:

That's the sort of thing I'm wondering about. No good having an
all singing all dancing thing for feck all if you can't update
it or it ****s up.

As with a lot of Aldi's bargains, the P4220 is a discontinued unit,
hence being given to them to flog off cheap. I like the Medion units
though, always worked fine for me (although I've only used the PPC
versions). They were always good value for money, but - now that prices
have dropped across the board - £150 is a fair chunk on a budget SatNav
these days, you should be able to get something decent a fair bit
cheaper than that.

Just depends how important EU maps & TM is to you...

IME, TMC is useless. I shouldn't have bothered getting it for mine.

Which sat nav have you got? Apparently some use TrafficMaster and some use
ITIS. And then there's the option of data via GPRS...

"Doki" wrote in message
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I'm quite tempted to have something that just works. I've got enough
things that need a bit of tinkering. OTOH that is ****ing cheap and I'd
not be heartbroken if it got nicked. How much meddling is required to make
it run

Hardly any, just install tomtom onto the SD card and you're away.
Or even easier, take advantage of my Tomtom installation services and send
me an SD card with a stabbed undressed antelope and I'll send it back
crammed with GPS software
My £50 navigo from ebuyer has Tomtom, Miomap and Turbodog on there (after
installing at home) and it's cheap enough to leave in the Locost with no
roof without worrying.

tomtom? Are Sat navs now basically PDAs with a GPS device inside?

Yes, mine is basically a PDA with a built-in GPS receiver.

"Tony (UncleFista)" wrote in message
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"Doki" wrote in message
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I'm quite tempted to have something that just works. I've got enough
things that need a bit of tinkering. OTOH that is ****ing cheap and I'd
not be heartbroken if it got nicked. How much meddling is required to
make it run

Hardly any, just install tomtom onto the SD card and you're away.
Or even easier, take advantage of my Tomtom installation services and send
me an SD card with a stabbed undressed antelope and I'll send it back
crammed with GPS software

Excellenté, as they say on the Ferrero Rocher adverts.

My £50 navigo from ebuyer has Tomtom, Miomap and Turbodog on there (after
installing at home) and it's cheap enough to leave in the Locost with no
roof without worrying.

I don't know what any of that stuff is, bar Tomtom. Is it possible to get
tom tom traffic on these things? Do they generally work well (ie, as well as
it would on a proper tom tom)?