Post by Allen on Oct 18, 2006 12:55:17 GMT
Our first GPS was a Garmin Etrex Legend. Nothing fancy it had a mono screen and you had to put your routs in manually but at the end of the day it always got us there. We used this when we cycled across to Yorkshire via the Peak District camping.
After this we got the Garmin IQue 3600, this was the first PDA style sat nav to be produced with its own built in GPS. It had a colour screen and could work out your route for you unlike the Legend. We got a great deal of use from this unit and it had one thing the Tomtom did not. You could select Truck so if towing it would avoid a lot of the smaller roads though not always lol as we found out when travelling around Wales. Unfortunately earlier in the year it did one and become very unreliable. The map would show one direction but the voice would say another so we decided to retire it.
I liked the look of the Tomtom 710 and decided to get that. The 510/710/910 are all the same at the end of the day. The main differences are that the 510 only hasUK maps on, the 710 has UK plus Western Europe the 910 has a large map data base along with a 20 gig HD and can play MP3's, display Photos and has Text to speach but is dearer so plumped for a 710.
Up to now we are more than pleased with it. I find the hands free very useful along with the speed camera warning. Tomtom have now release a TMC aerial for the X10's that according to them gives you free traffic info allowing you to reroute if there are any major delays. From what I have read elsewhere it is not working to well at this point in time and still has a few bugs. I am sure TT will get this sorted and when they do sure we will get one.
After this we got the Garmin IQue 3600, this was the first PDA style sat nav to be produced with its own built in GPS. It had a colour screen and could work out your route for you unlike the Legend. We got a great deal of use from this unit and it had one thing the Tomtom did not. You could select Truck so if towing it would avoid a lot of the smaller roads though not always lol as we found out when travelling around Wales. Unfortunately earlier in the year it did one and become very unreliable. The map would show one direction but the voice would say another so we decided to retire it.
I liked the look of the Tomtom 710 and decided to get that. The 510/710/910 are all the same at the end of the day. The main differences are that the 510 only hasUK maps on, the 710 has UK plus Western Europe the 910 has a large map data base along with a 20 gig HD and can play MP3's, display Photos and has Text to speach but is dearer so plumped for a 710.
Up to now we are more than pleased with it. I find the hands free very useful along with the speed camera warning. Tomtom have now release a TMC aerial for the X10's that according to them gives you free traffic info allowing you to reroute if there are any major delays. From what I have read elsewhere it is not working to well at this point in time and still has a few bugs. I am sure TT will get this sorted and when they do sure we will get one.