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[pauls]

I have been using a garmin sat nav for years but has started playing up. It keeps freezing at totally the wrong time.

I now have a omega with built in sat nav..are they still worth using even without postcode entry or are they to far out of date.

What is the recomended sat nav budget would be around £100.

[minifreek]

I use the 1 thats in mine it actually works better than the TomTom One I have at times...

It is a bit clunky to use but is easy when you get used to how it is programmed, but Im almost sure that you can use postcodes with it... Mine is a retro fitted CarIn from a Preface Omega with an updated disc

[pauls]

Also can you buy more upto date disc for it

[Lazydocker]

The built in one will always be far more reliable than any portable unit.

That said, I use TomTom for smartphone and it's pretty good

[zirk]

Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.

[minifreek]

Also can you buy more upto date disc for it

You can but it depends how up to date they actually are...

You also need to be careful of the lazer burning out on the satnav unit itself when using copied discs...

[VXL V6]

Also can you buy more upto date disc for it

You can but it depends how up to date they actually are...

You also need to be careful of the lazer burning out on the satnav unit itself when using copied discs...

2011 is the last disc for the NCDR/C range IIRC.

[VXL V6]

Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.

I use this alongside the NCDC and find it quite good. The traffic is only as good as the number of people who are also using it though.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Why no postcodes on the CD70 Navi?

It seems a backward step to me.

[STEMO]

Download Here Maps (Nokia Maps) for Free, Android, Windows or IOS, download Free up to date Maps you need and gives live traffic if used with a Data Sim.

Google maps navigation has come a long way. As you travel it gives alternative routes with time added to your journey displayed. Also highlights problem roads but, again, that depends on the amount of people using it.
I'm not saying it is foolproof, but it's free and works well enough.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Why no postcodes on the CD70 Navi?

It seems a backward step to me.

It supports partial postcode entry, not that I ever use postcodes as entering the address is more reliable and easy enough to do! 

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Another phone version that works is Sygic - free download, including maps, and fifteen quid if you want a licence to use all the fancy extras like speed cam spotting.

[Viral_Jim]

I find Navmii to be very good, its free if you don't mind an advert at the bottom of the screen when you are searching for your destination. For a total spend of about £4 you have no adds, traffic and speed camera alerts, also doesn't use mobile data to generate maps & street names (they're included in the initial download). It also runs your search through its own directory of streets, POI's etc and Google to give you results. It also searched FourSquare, whatever that is .

I've used this app in the UK and also the US version when I'm over there. With 3 mobile's "Feel at Home" free US Roaming it kicks the ar$e out of $10/day to hire a satnav or £50 to add the maps to my TomTom unit. Its available for iPhone (the version i use), android and probably others as well.

[05omegav6]

A top end TomTom might be well over a ton, but free updates for life plus free google poi search and Europe wide mapping. What's not to love?

Oh and it also does full postcodes

 

[Nick W]

A top end TomTom might be well over a ton, but free updates for life plus free google poi search and Europe wide mapping. What's not to love?

Oh and it also does full postcodes

 

I've never seen the need for a top-end TomTom, as the large screen is unnecessary and 't use extra stuff over just the nav. But it's the easiest and most intuitive to use, and the routing seems to be better too.


As for full postcodes, why wouldn't you use them? It saves picking the wrong town(try looking at the distance between Rainham and Rainham!), or on a country road that doesn't have house numbers.