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Reviewed by UK Guest, 17th Mar 2007. |
| Review Summary: After the GPS III + this is a great unit |
Overall Score: 4/5
 
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Review: The last GPS I bought was a Garmin GPS III +, which has served me well for many years, and will continue to be useful to me in the future.
I looked at several reviews before I decided to try the NuVi, and I was tending towards the Packard Bell or some other cheaper unit, until looked at the size of the screen, the lack of DC leads and the general comments about the unit not being happy if you did not follow their instructions...
I have previous experience of the older units installed in the Toyota cars, which seemed to either send you out of your way to avoid motorways, or send you out of your way to use them. So, I always treat GPS instructions as indications, not as law! Let's face it, we are the people driving and, if a passenger told you to drive over a cliff, it would be you, not them, that would be responsible for doing it...
The POI system took a couple of hours to sort out, but I can now copy waypoints from my old GPS III + over to the NaVi 300 and I can delete them from the NaVi if I want to replace them. The GPS III + works in a similar way, in that I have to delete all the waypoints if I want a completely new set. OK, you can delete individual waypoints from the GPS III + if you want, but if you have a traditional GPS, then using both is a breeze, once you learn the way that they both work. If you can't be bothered, or only want to have the NaVi, then you wont be able to do this, and you will probably feel left out...
I intend to use the NaVi for work, to get me were I need to be on each day and I will enter Geodash points in each month, but I will still use my GPSIII+ to prove that I got to within 100m of a geodash point, or to trek to a geocache... I don't think that the NuVi was actually designed to do the walking stuff, in the same way as the GPSIII+ did not have the maps that showed all of the footpaths in the UK, for which I still needed the Ordnance Survey Maps of Great Britain. |
Ratings
| Value For Money: |
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4 |
| Review Score: |
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4 |
| Recommended? | |
Yes |
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