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We have been thinking of getting a Sat Nav but know very little about them, what I do know is any one I buy must have USA maps, however can you buy one that covers all the US (it is a very big place)also would I be better of buying one here or in the US.
I purchased a Tom Tom for my hubbie for xmas, it comes with UK and Ireland and Europe and you can go to the web site and download US, I just bought him an extra sd card to download to, not that I have done it yet, but will do shortly
ShirleyD
06-01-2008, 03:48
Some of the higher models have Europe and US maps already loaded.
florida4sun
06-01-2008, 14:15
The tomtom 910 is a great unit and comes with full uk and usa maps. It is cheaper in teh usa but you will have to buy and download the uk maps.
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We have been thinking of getting a Sat Nav but know very little about them, what I do know is any one I buy must have USA maps, however can you buy one that covers all the US (it is a very big place)also would I be better of buying one here or in the US.
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I also bought a TomTom from the Uk with European maps.Its an easy process to download the maps for the USA. I went for just the south eastern USA region and I think it cost about £40 to download onto a memory card.
You just download the operating system onto the card also, and when you go over to Florida swap the memory card over on the TomTom and it automatically works in the US.
alastair
07-01-2008, 04:52
The Garmin 370 has UK, Europe and USA maps as standard. It also has Bluetooth.
Thanks for all your replies. Martin it was a tom tom 910 that I was looking at, which now seems to have been replaced by the 920
florida4sun
07-01-2008, 18:22
Sorry that should have been the 720 which is the latest model.
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Thanks for all your replies. Martin it was a tom tom 910 that I was looking at, which now seems to have been replaced by the 920
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Looked at the 720, no USA maps but you can download them at the moment for £30 which seems good to me
florida4sun
07-01-2008, 21:35
Sorry the 920 comes with us and europe maps. Although it may be cheaper to buy the 720 and download the europe maps (as you mentioned).
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Looked at the 720, no USA maps but you can download them at the moment for £30 which seems good to me
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Just thought I would let you know I have ordered a 520, special deal at £159 only comes with UK maps but will by the US maps to download, don't need Europe, can't waste holidays on going to Europe when I coul be in the US:):)
ccarcher
10-01-2008, 19:05
i've had no problems with using a Tom Tom for years now or the softwre on both a PDA and more recently a stand alone unit
I just downloaded the US maps from the TomTom site onto an SD card and off you go
if your thinking of hiring one, think again as its almost as cheap to buy your own TomTom ove a 14 day period, and then you will also have it in the UK
Cruella DeVilla
10-01-2008, 19:17
Garmin for us. I did a lot of research before we bought but was always leaning towards a Garmin.
Used TT in a work's car and it's not as good but of course that is just my opinion!
bargainqueen
14-01-2008, 15:50
Yesterday DH dragged me to Halfords to look at Satnavs and at the moment they are 20% off.
Decided to go for 720T but they didn't have any in stock. (Having read this thread I'd worked out it would be cheaper to download the US maps onto a separate SD card.
Came home and found that if you ordered it online you could get a 920T for £279 home delivery only. DH wouldn't wait that long but by ordering online I still managed to get it £20 cheaper than buying it in the store.
If they won't install and demo it I'll return home and order it through the post. I don't care if he shows off in the store he's not having it.[msnwink]
ccarcher
16-01-2008, 19:13
TomTom website is now offering upto 50% off Map upgrades and downloads depending on which device you have
petenamy
18-01-2008, 19:33
The Garmin is a wee bit better than the TomTom, but the TomTom is a whole lot easier to use, I have the new TT GO 920.
Got my 520 on Thursday, downloaded the US maps today and am now feeding in all the places we want to go to in March
Really get the hang of this now, put all the craft shops (for me) and camera shops (for hubby) in getting really excited now.