Anyone got one of these? Try setting PE1 2EB as the destination and see if it will calculate a route for you.
Mine spends 7 mins calculating the route then crashes with a message "The system resources were exceeded".
I can find that postcode using Multimap and other inline mapping services.
How do you find this gadget in general? I have seen them for sale down to 199 now. But I have heard bad things about them, not sure how true it is. Lots of crashing. And the one on display in the shop was overheating and frozen.
I've no experience with other similar devices but...
No significant crashing or overheating.
Once set up to navigate it works ok. Gives plenty of warning about speed cameras etc. It's driving instructions are ok but you get the ocasional "turn left/right" when it's just a bend in the road (Looks like the maps have a few junctions with incorrect priority).
The menus give the impression there are seperate applications bolted together. Not sure if this is true. Some settings you have to exit the navigation mode to get at which gives that impression.
It's a pain to set up favorites. I haven't been able to find out how to set up a destination as a favorite without actually going there. It appears you can only bookmark the current location you are physically at.
Once or twice it's picked a slightly odd route but it allways gets you there in the end.
There are only really two setting for the router. Fastest and Shortest. In fastest mode it's slightly too keen to get you onto dual carriageways/motorways.
If while driving you encounter a traffic jam you can tell it the road is blocked for 0.5 1 or 3 miles - but I haven't found a way to cancel that if the traffic starts moving again. So you get a mile down the road and it tells you to turn off because it's still trying to go around the jam.
There's no mute button so you can't quickly shut it up if someone calls you.
I don't think there is a facility to set up a route on your PC and download it to the device. That would make setting up a multi stop trip a lot easier. It's very hard to set a stop using the map on the device. For example if you want to force it to take you a certain way around the M25 then you might want to enter a stop at Dartford. It's not easy to enter that using the map. Much easier to type in an address.
You can set it to avoid the congestion charge and I had it navigate me around the zone once. Worked ok. .
Theres's no input for a laser sensor.
Perhaps if I had something to compare it with I would be more critical.
It's not a perfect device but ok as long as it remains quite a bit cheaper than other makes/models. If the price gap narrows I'd look again.
I've used this, and TomTomOne. I find TomTom much better overall. It's all well saying "it gets you there in the end" - but I did find that my own instincts sometimes proved more efficient driving, especially in A-class roads, it would often give very random routes. The TomTom, on the other hand, has proved more reliable, and *seems* to give better route information.
They are very poor. The nav app is way behind the best available and the speed alert side is a simple and poorly integrated add on which shows as such. Avoid
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