[Advice] SatNavs.

[dancefloorlandmine]

I know that a number of you have SatNav devices, and some of you might have been through more than one. Having had an unscheduled detour this morning, I've finally decided that I'm going to bite the bullet and get one soon. But, being indecisive, I'm appealling for advice.

So, far, the top options appear to be the ViaMichelin X-970T, the TomTom ONE XL GB (Traffic), or, if I get carried away, the TomTom GO 520 Traffic.

Anyone had any good/bad experiences with any of the above - Amazon's user reviews are somewhat inconclusive ("sliced bread"/"road to hell")?

My want list includes: postcode and address searching, decent clear display, speed camera locations and speed limit information (too many Tiger Tokens), traffic alerts and rerouting. Out of car portability is less important, but might be handy. Hands-free phone function might be useful, if it works well.

Music playing and photo displaying less useful - my cameras don't use the relevant card sizes, and I have a CD player and an audio input to my stereo already.

Comments

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

Cheers!

Probably not going to go the phone route, though - my current personal communicator is a second-hand NOKIA 6230, with my ancient T-Mobile PAYG SIM in it, on the "text heavy PAYG" deal. Nice and cheap for texting, and I rarely do anything else ... [grin]

[metastasis.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend avoiding the phone route. I'm got phone based SatNav at the moment and it's rather disturbing when you're trying to work out directions in a difficult area and you're SatNav goes away because you've got an incoming call....