Medion sat nav

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Medion sat nav

The Medion once are a bit on the pants side....

Tried one and it couldn't even find my address...

The Cheaper option to a Tomtom Go is to get a second hand Ipaq or equivalent off Ebay and buy TomTom PocketPC

That's what I use and it does the job Brilliant.......

TomTom One has just been reduced to Around £219 also, This is not a bad unit at all..... Worth considering other than the Medion ones....



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Your best bet mate is to pop to your local halfrauds if there's one nearby and have a quick prod at some of display ones!!!

It's a matter of taste really..... I just couldn't get on with the medion one....
 
Popped in halfords this morning but couldnt get anyone to serve me so went.

From what i could see they looked ok- will try again this afternoon.

Just wanted some opinions on them from people who have used them!

Thought about putting TOMTOM on my nokia 6680 but the phone is far to unstable and I might end up losing the software off the phone
 
I have medion sat nav

AVOID Halfrauds it costs 350 quid for my medion unit whereas i got the same unit in the aldi deal of the week for 230 :D

Recommend, without it i wouldnt have found stanford hall last year :D
 
I dont know the model number after looking on the box but here is the thread with a pic and some info on it when i first got it :)

https://www.fiatforum.com/showthread.php?t=32186&highlight=aldi

6 months later it still works fine :D it has crashed a couple of times before due to being on permantly but a quick reset sorts out that problem :)

Friends have family have leant it out and have been impressed with it too.

You get the job lot with it plugs, car kit the only thing you dont get is a european map but i think you can download it onto the memory card

Throughly recommend (y)
 
I had a medion one and it got completely confused in london once and i ended up on Regent street, when i was just trying to go from near stevenage to hampton court. Serin was the only thing that stopped me chucking the thing out the window, never buy one again tbh put me off for life :eek:

A week later i got a tom tom go 300, which in my opinion is far superior to the medion i had. Also now the Tomtom One is out and its cheaper than the other 3 tomtoms id have that.
 
think all this could be down to the sofware thats running on it dont think it has tomtom software on it as stadard but could allways put tomtom on there or update the one that it has on there ive got tomtom on my nokia 7610 seems sweat just need the gps box should be no more than £40 so if u hav a compatible phone might be a cheap option as the mmc card should be about £20 so £60 allin if you got the phone
 
Big Black Stilo said:
My 6680 likes to uninstall and delete things at random- Im not risking it
mate what size card you got in your phone as the map is just over 100 meg i think.you could back up yout messages and text messages the format your phone this is done by putting nubers in your phone should sort it out for you or run a virus scanner on the phone :) read up on the net about it pals got tomtom on hes phone hes no probs .gonna sort my mom one for her phone to so she dont get lost lol
 
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I have used both tom tom software (2,3 and 5) and Medion Navigator extensively. Ignore tom tom go units, it's just tom tom software on an expensive unit which you can only use for sat nav, there are better solutions out there.

Medion Navigator is actually BETTER than tom tom in terms of how clear it is, how much speech there is and how it displays information. For example, it will stay "carry on along this road for 5 miles" where as Medion just lets you guess you have done the right thing. Medion states "At the roundabout, take the third exit onto the A57" where as tom tom states "At the roundabout, turn right, third exit". This surprised me and I find it very useful, you can have a number in your head to spot on the signs since although you know its the third exit, a lot of roundabouts are never that simple!

Medion also appears to recalculate quicker than tom tom, though this brings me to its routing...

Is it as good, worse or equal with Medion? Doing 3 routes on the two units I have here (Tom tom 5 unit and the 2004 maps version of Medion Navigator) and it gives me exactly the same route. I find tom tom much slower to learn when you know a better route, ignore comments from Medion say 3 times and it will not try to reroute you back onto your original route but guess what route you prefer to take. Medion however seems to bias national speed limit roads far too much, assuming you can sit at 60mph on them where as Medion seems to think you can sit on a 30mph road at 30mph constantly and traffic lights don't exist. Hence i find one system (medion) prefers you to take higher speed scenic routes and tom tom prefers you to take more direct lower speed routes. Swings and roundabouts..

Tom tom however wins the shows in its menu systems, full post code searching, ease of use and stability. Although medion incorporates the POI system for speed cameras etc. as standard it only comes with restaurants, car rentals etc. where as tom tom 5 comes with the speed camera database.

Tom tom 5 on a sat nav enabled PDA would be my advise, be it bluetooth/integrated or wired GPS receiver. Medion shop sold them recently for £129 and the unit is a LOT better than my Dell X5 :(

Medion seem to be a leader in the PDA market which is fantastic for such a company.
 
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