Sat Nav - TomTom 510 or Navman 720

[Peter_5078704]

Does anyone have any experience. My wife is hassling me to get one as she is fed up with map reading on holiday.Thanks.

 

[Viking1]

Peter

I got a Tom Tom One which I find very good.

I had it now for 3 mouths I only sued it for the fist two mouth as have not gone to so were we did not now.

When I went to bay one I ask on here and when I got to Halfords I alls ask them and they told me to go for a Tom Tom. Be me I went for one that was easy to use.

They can go wrong like we asks it to take use to a restraint but when we got there it was a died end with not there.

Be careful as well

We were on holiday in Wales and we used it to take use the shorts roots to some places and it did but one time it was going to take use green lane to get there.

But all said I would not be with out it now

Mark

P,S

Have a look at this

Cut and past

http://www.tomtom.com/

 

[rob_jax]

Peter,

The two market leaders are TomTom and Garmin, and aside from what you get from the manufacturers, there are loads of free web-sites and web-help forums for these makes.

These additional things include the location of CC and C&CC camp-grounds - the caravan club sells a list of it's own sites - but a group of TomTom forum members compiled such a list as well.

What should you buy?

Go to a shop that has the models you fancy on WORKING display and see if you prefer the TomTom or Garmin way of working. Both are simple to use, but some prefer one over the other.

What do you need to buy?

If you only take your caravan around the UK, then buy a UK only model. Such as a TomTom ONE

If you enjoy tin tenting in France or Holland or where ever, then buy a model with STREET LEVEL mapping of Europe - something like a TomTom 710 or the new TomTom ONE EUROPE

Avoid those systems that offer "Major Roads of Europe" - like the TomTom 510 - this is of limited use - being able to find Paris is fine - but you probably want to find an address in Paris - and this is what they don't do (only the major roads).

Avoid those systems that offer "street level mapping of Europe" but only include a small memory card - the full maps of Europe require about 1 or 2 gigabytes of storage - and you would need to copy the regions you want to visit down to the memory card - and you may just forget.

I live in the UK, work in Rotterdam, and have been a user of TomTom since the very first incarnations - currently have a TomTom 700 (the previous model of the TomTom 910) bought at a heavy discount once the "10" versions came out - some are still available and it's a great system at a great price.

My wife has a Garmin, she prefers their style of human-machine interface.

And as others have said on this and other forums - Navman is not in the same league.

And you still need a paper map - maybe to get an overall idea of where you would like to visit (trying to do this on a small screen is no fun) and as a back up in case you break or lose your SatNav

Robert

 

[JohnI.Stephen]

One other small piece of advice. I am personally a Garmin person; having owned at least 4 of these units since 1998. The advice would be to always calculate your journey in advance (on a PC) and then upload the ROUTE to your SAT NAV. I have learnt the hard way that a route calculated 'on the fly' will not always provide similar results; and this can lead to confusion.

For example; calculating from my home in Kent to Cumbria (Keswick) we go M25, M42, M6 and then A66. However coming BACK again, the unit calculated A66, M1, M25. This is a very different route and whilst it's valid, it is better to upload your own route; especially for long journeys. On short trips use the SAT NAT to work it out; on longer trips; do a bit or home work and you'll not be disappointed.

John

 

[Icemaker]

Tom Tom, why ? i don't know really its just that most people i know and talk to have Tom Tom as opposed to other makes and you can get the software from anywhere usually within days of buying your machine for free if you know the right people. never used a garmin so cant comment but found the navman too slow and grafics a bit poor.

 

[DavidS1]

Does anyone have a clue what Mark and Sharon are on about? If so please post the translation. Thanks.

 

[Wendy-Norfolk]

I had no problems reading Mark and Sharons post.

I think Mark is dyslexic, he get's a few letters in the wrong places, so what! It only means reading his posting a bit more carefully!

 

[Lol1]

Why do they make the spelling of "dyslexia" so hard? Anyway, yes David, Mark has a touch of dislecksia (told you!) but while on the forum (couple of years now, Mark?) has shown remarkable improvement. Like Wendy says, read it carefully and it all makes sense, you may not always agree, but that's life.

I too have a speech problem, but touretts seems to be in Vogue now......so I'm @*7)$^%^$

 

[LMH]

As the others have replied David, yes Mark is dyslexic. He is also one of the most helpful members of the fourm and having met him in person, I would also add that he's great fun to be around and would help anyone if he could.

I would have thought that anyone with half a brain cell would have quickly realised by reading Mark's reply that he does have issues with writing and spelling.

One small difference between you and Mark though - you might be able to spell ok but Mark wouldn't make jokes about a person with a disability.

Lisa

 

[Val & Frank]

Well Lol I was LOL very good the Tourets **(^%$

 

[DavidS1]

OK I get it now, I thought it was a p***take.