Sam
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I currently have a TomTom One which I purchased about 5 or so years ago, haven't really updated the maps that often but I feel like having a change now. Map updates aside, it seems to get a bit confused sometimes and I can't exactly slow down to a crawl on a national speed limit dual carriageway for it to make up its mind about whether I should turn left or not for example! 
Can anyone recommend any decent sat navs? I also have an iPhone so I suppose I could pay for the sat nav software on that too (Google Maps directions don't seem to automatically update so is a bit useless for driving directions I think).
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A2H GO
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Jailbreak - Tom Tom latest version with traffic and speed camera alerts 
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Sam
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CBA with all that jailbreaking nonsense TBH.
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JonnyJ
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I use Google Maps on my HTC. Been flawless everytime, works really well.
My mum has a Garmin and thats pretty good.
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Phillips_91
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Registered: 20th Jan 10
Location: Blackpool. Drives: Sapphire Black Mk4 Astra 1.8
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if you decide to get a seperate sat nav,
garmin are by far the best, can't fault mine at all been using it for 2 years now for doing takeaway deliveries as well as long distance driving
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Gary
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Garmin are wamk. Used out lasses once and it took me on some single track backroads! Piece of shit.
There are loads of Satnav apps for iphone, i use one called Skobbler and you cant complain as its free 
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A2H GO
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
CBA with all that jailbreaking nonsense TBH.
Yeah right pain in the arse navigating to a webpage on the built in browser and clicking 'install'.
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Balling
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quote:
Originally posted by Gary
Garmin are wamk. Used out lasses once and it took me on some single track backroads! Piece of shit.
Because of this one experience all Garmin products are bad?
I would go for the iPhone app solution. Would always have you GPS with you and at no risk of having some cunt stealing it from your car.
The TomTom app has the IQ Routes where it learns your preferred roads to travel by, which you probably learn yourself anyway, so useless feature really. It also has a terrible menu system where you will be able to spend hours looking for basic features. Great fun!
Navigon and Garmin are very similar apps and since Garmin has recently purchased Navigon I can only see them getting more similar. People tend to find that the Garmin app has the better menu layout and I believe Garmins Point Of Interest library is also bigger than both TomTom and Navigon.
Just be sure to the the Garmin Onboard app as the other one does not download the maps but streams them.
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