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Navman icn530 or Garmin nuvi300/360?
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| Really need some help choosing between these two units please. As far as I
am aware both of them have full postcode search but I can't suss whether the
Garmin allows you to select route preferences (i.e. less/more motorways
etc).
Could anyone offer me any advice?
Many thanks
Paul
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| Joe Taylor 2006-08-16, 4:33 am |
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"Paul" <neverchecked@nomail.net> wrote in message
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> Really need some help choosing between these two units please. As far as
> I am aware both of them have full postcode search but I can't suss whether
> the Garmin allows you to select route preferences (i.e. less/more
> motorways etc).
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> Could anyone offer me any advice?
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> Many thanks
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> Paul
>With the Nuvi you have to select fastest/shortest
or choose vehicle :- Foot,car, lorry,bus,emergency
The rest is left to the unit to sort out.
You can set 1 via piont only.
Hope this helps.
-------Joe---
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"Joe Taylor" <joe. taylor1@NOSPAMbtinte
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> "Paul" <neverchecked@nomail.net> wrote in message
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> or choose vehicle :- Foot,car, lorry,bus,emergency
> The rest is left to the unit to sort out.
> You can set 1 via piont only.
> Hope this helps.
> -------Joe---
Thanks Joe
Would you recommend the Garmin over the Navman?
Cheers
Paul
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| Jack Erbes 2006-08-16, 10:33 pm |
| Paul wrote:
> Really need some help choosing between these two units please. As far as I
> am aware both of them have full postcode search but I can't suss whether the
> Garmin allows you to select route preferences (i.e. less/more motorways
> etc).
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> Could anyone offer me any advice?
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Neither one of them has multiple destination routing. Don't buy either
one and tell Garmin and NavMan why you elected to not buy those.
Without MDR you cannot control your routing, you are at the whims and
mercy of the software.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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| quietguy 2006-08-16, 10:33 pm |
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You can also choose avoid traffic, tollways, highways etc
David
Joe Taylor wrote:
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> or choose vehicle :- Foot,car, lorry,bus,emergency
> The rest is left to the unit to sort out.
> You can set 1 via piont only.
> Hope this helps.
> -------Joe---
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| J-A-K-E 2006-08-17, 4:33 am |
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"Jack Erbes" <jackerbes@adelphia.net> wrote in message
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> Paul wrote:
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> Neither one of them has multiple destination routing. Don't buy either
> one and tell Garmin and NavMan why you elected to not buy those.
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> Without MDR you cannot control your routing, you are at the whims and
> mercy of the software.
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> Jack
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> Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
> (also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
Yes you can.....with the ICN 530 ??????????
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| mcewena 2006-08-17, 10:33 am |
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Jack Erbes wrote:
> Paul wrote:
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> Neither one of them has multiple destination routing. Don't buy either
> one and tell Garmin and NavMan why you elected to not buy those.
Page 24 of the Navman 530 manual
http://www.navman.com/Documents/InC..._SmartST_EN.pdf
However you have to specify the order of the stops unlike the Garmin
2600 series but if you're after control that's what you'd do anyway,
otherwise you'd be at the whims again...
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| mcewena 2006-08-17, 10:33 am |
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Paul wrote:
> Really need some help choosing between these two units please. As far as I
> am aware both of them have full postcode search but I can't suss whether the
> Garmin allows you to select route preferences (i.e. less/more motorways
> etc).
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> Could anyone offer me any advice?
Throw in the Asus a636 and you're right where I am too ;)
http://www.mobiletechreview.com/ASUS-A636.htm
The Nuvi is nice and compact for tourist travel and the mp3 player
travel guide etc.. make nice add ons, but wow it's pricey.
the 530 has (I think) more feature rich software and what looks like a
nicer interface (why doesn't everybody have park/fuel buttons, it's
what you're always looking for when travelling?) but it's only a nav
unit (no extra goodies), but it's also 2/3rd the price. Some people
say teleatlas maps aren't what navteq are but others say it's a
po-tay-toe vs. po-taa-toe arguement.
The Asus unit is in between in price, has Navteq maps, can support a
wide range of nav software and has the internet at your finger tips....
so why isn't it more popular...??
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| Jack Erbes 2006-08-17, 12:33 pm |
| J-A-K-E wrote:
<snip my incorrect statement that the NavMan ICN 530 does not do
multiple destination routing>
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> Yes you can.....with the ICN 530 ??????????
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You are abolutely right! My apologies and I'll never make that mistake
again. I think I had it confused with the Garmin StreetPilot c530 which
does not do it.
Jack
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Jack Erbes in Ellsworth, Maine, USA (jackerbes at adelphia dot net)
(also receiving email at jacker at midmaine dot com)
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