Good/Cheap Car Navigator... Any Suggestions ?

sandundasa · Post by **sandundasa** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:31 am

I want to buy a good car navigator...

Any Suggestions Friends ?

I know Tomtom & Garmin are good...

Any specific brand or model that works good in Finland...

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Ice1 · Post by **Ice1** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 11:52 am

My wife

she also doubles as a great "sat nag "

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 1:27 pm

I have Route66

http://www.66.com/

Mini Scandinavian version in the car and I have the S60 version on my Nokia N91 phone. Both seem to work pretty well.

automagic · Post by **automagic** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 2:10 pm

We have Garmin 710 with Europe and Scandinavian 2008 map. So far we don't have any problem with navigation in and around Southern Finland. This model is of course without TextToSpeech feature, but it works

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:41 pm

Ice1 wrote:My wife she also doubles as a great "sat nag "

was going to reply something similiar but the wife is not that good.

Me Im good with a good old map....

Rosamunda · Post by **Rosamunda** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 8:50 pm

I have a Garmin (since last summer). Am happy with it so far. Got me through some windy country lanes in Somerset OK this summer and works fine here. Gets confused going through that big mess at Pasilä but I guess that is just the road works. Going to Parainen this weekend so will "test" the new bit of motorway. DH bought it for me at Vantaa airport.

jas_rho · Post by **jas_rho** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 8:39 am

I've used TomTom, Garmin, and Route 66 and for me TomTom has been the most accurate and most up to date. Both Garmin and R66 have asked me to turn the wrong way down a one way street or to turn off from a bridge when the road was down below me

TomTom isn't perfect either but its the best of the 3 in my opinion. I've used them in Finland, Germany, and the US with about the same consistency for all of them. But also, if one was significantly cheaper than the other, I would go with that.

sandundasa · Post by **sandundasa** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 10:07 am

Thanks for all the replies friends...

I think I'm gonna buy one from these three...

Any ideas again...

http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=7760

http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prodinfo.php?id=0692

http://www.verkkokauppa.com/popups/prod ... p?id=11949

chickensexer · Post by **chickensexer** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 1:39 pm

I'd say Garmin, their Nüvi series are pretty good and they just released a new model of Nüvi that has lot's of good stuff, including quite decent size touch screen and assistance in navigating trhough intersections telling you in which specific lane you should be.. Plus there's lots of other things - navigating to geo-referenced photo, MP3 and audio-book player and all that jazz...

In terms of accuracy, if you live in Oulu, I'd say TomTom is getting less reliable.. They main work process is by purchasing bulk data from providers whereas Garmin has maps that are ground-truthed by people. Meaning once you get out of densely populated, "popular" areas bulk sourcing starts showing more and more flaws.

If you have some friend in Germany or will go there soon visit one of the Saturns. It's an electronic goods chain, has vide variety of nearly anything and you'll get your device cheaper there than here, even with Vertaa. The coverage is entire Western Europe (Nordics are part of that), and bits of Eastern Europe.

riku2 · Post by **riku2** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:13 am

I have a garmin nuvi 750 which I bought in the US for $214 and then I added maps of europe to it (actually also middle east, south africa etc but still plenty of room on an 8G SDHC card). The unit is really good and when driving around texas it was really useful to have it say "turn right onto I35", "arriving at grapevine mills". But the text to speech is basically worthless with non english (eg finnish) street names since it will try to pronounce them according to english rules, so when I use it in Finland (or france for example) then I have to choose the non "text to speech" voices and it reverts back to "turn right in 100 metres" mode.

chickensexer · Post by **chickensexer** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:34 pm

good point riku2. Then I think you are alwo aware that with Garmins when it says "In. Two. Hundred. Meters. Take. TheSecond. Turning. ToTheLeft" - it was 200m when she STARTED saying "In. Two.."

But I think it's the same deal with TomToms.

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