I’ve got a tomtom truck and I’d not go for a cheapo, the reason is the HD traffic service, we collect from car bodyshops/recovery companys which have opening times, and I only tend to do 1/2 nights out at a time, I’ve lost count the amount of times the traffic service has warned and diverted me round problems thus getting me to where I need to be before closing time, and further getting me home the following night.
Nothing against the chinese ones though, if they could hack into tomtoms service then I’d seriously consider one.
I’ve got a cheap one, just done a map update on it and it’s even better, took it for a test run in the car last night heading towards a low bridge and it moaned like hell. Before the update it wouldn’t pick up that particular bridge. I was told I had the 2016 maps on it when I bought it but when I swapped the files over it appeared to 2014.
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I have a cheapo sat nav ,xgody or a name like that.I was on a congested Mway last week and it started throwing up alternative routes.I didnt know that it had that feature ,ALL for £35.00.If I drop it or it goes walkabout it wont matter that much.Why spend £100 s.get with the beat.
But also MANYBut not all of these cheep truck run cracked applications. So the app maker wouldn’t support it you’d have to go to the person selling it. Considering the cheapest smartphone app I’ve found for trucks was aponia and mapfactor these would run on tablets too
Both around £50 mark both have updates wil work on a supported device you install it on
alamcculloch:
I have a cheapo sat nav ,xgody or a name like that.I was on a congested Mway last week and it started throwing up alternative routes.I didnt know that it had that feature ,ALL for £35.00.If I drop it or it goes walkabout it wont matter that much.Why spend £100 s.get with the beat.
To answer you question why spend a hundred when 35 will do. The answer is support and updates if the app developers don’t get income they’ll stop updating or will pull apps then means one day you won’t get map updates and you’ll end up spending more on a new sat nav.
alix776:
alamcculloch:
I have a cheapo sat nav ,xgody or a name like that.I was on a congested Mway last week and it started throwing up alternative routes.I didnt know that it had that feature ,ALL for £35.00.If I drop it or it goes walkabout it wont matter that much.Why spend £100 s.get with the beat.
To answer you question why spend a hundred when 35 will do. The answer is support and updates if the app developers don’t get income they’ll stop updating or will pull apps then means one day you won’t get map updates and you’ll end up spending more on a new sat nav.
Map updates are just an easy way for people to make money out of simpletons…previously I had a tomtom and didn’t update it for 5 years and I didn’t drive off the end of the earth,roads really do not change that mug and if they do they are signposted!!
That maybe true but with and HGV satnav the wright limits will change depending on the map data to maufacturer puts out.
My copilot truck get free map updates as its a policy of apple to update newer version’s of app so if the app updates and will require newer map data to work then I get the update free. So not all updates are chargable