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5 Reviews for Navman N20 Satellite Navigation System With UK Mapping

Buy yourself a good map instead - 25 Feb 2007

43 out of 50 found this review helpful.

Having travelled around the UK for the last 25 years I have always been rather scaptical about GPS navigation devices. But, I felt I needed better help than the old map books I had floating around the car from 1998. So, I bought a N20.

First for the good side - Set up is easy and install is also simple. Even thought the manual that came in the box is for the N40i version ( which has a camera - doh!) and the in car installation sheet tells you nothing about the rubber suction pad and how you release it..

Now lets see how it works - So I got in the car and tried it out. I live in South west Wales. The first thing the thing tried to do was send me up the wrong way up a one way street in our town!!. I wondered if this was a recent change to the road but, no, it has always been 1 way. Decided to then see how it faired on a couple of longer runs. First trip to Carlisle. It worked out that it would be quicker to go up the middle of Wales. The machine assumes that as a road is marked to allow 60MPH then it would be quicker to use it. Have you tried to do 60MPH to Newtown from Carmarthen. We were both nearly sick. Short story is the ETA was a whole hour out by the time we had gone 3 hours into our journey. Should have gone up the M4 and M5. Once we hit the M6 it kept telling us to keep right, correctly, on a number of major junctions on the M6 but on way to Huddersfield on the return had no knowledge of the M60/M61 and M62 changes around Manchester. Luckily we know the road and were able to keep left as we needed to. Thanks Navman.

My house which was built 5 years ago is knowhere to be seen! The Dual carriageway around Merthyr is not present (finished 2 years ago!) and I found my icon wondering across a green area of land with the Navman telling me to find the nearest road... Brilliant

I have the device set to find us the quickest route but while making a detour over the weekend to do a bit of shopping on the way back it then decided that the route we had taken on our own decision was actually quicker than the one it had initially suggested. Again - Brilliant.

Anyway... look at the base of the N20... A label indicates it was designed in New Zealand and built in China. Obviously the maps installed (and supposedly updated in 2006) have probably made by the same poeple who have never visited the UK.

There is also another problem with the delay on start up as it locates itself. Try not to depend upon it if you jump in the car in a busy town and drive away quickly. It will attempt to send you in a direction which it calculates from the last time it was running. It you have moved before it has had time to re-aquaint itself then it will be wrong in its directions.

What is it good for? As a GPS tracking device - The ETA function is useful and pretty accurate as long as the route it has suggested is the one you finally take.

In essence, I feel that then issues with the device are not with the device itself but with the Maps that are being used. I checked the CD which came with it only to find that the most recent maps are already loaded.

I would not have minded if the mistakes were rare and were over a long period of time. I have had this thing for a week and only made 1 major journey. The number of times it has got things wrong are just far to frequent.

In conclusion - Buy a decent road map for a fiver at the Motorway services each year, use one of the multitude of Map sites if you need to go into an new town and plan your route and make sure you aquaint yourself with where you are going before you leave.

Navman N20 - 23 Feb 2007

18 out of 22 found this review helpful.

Arrived as promised by Amazon. Build quality good, far better than previous model purchased. Software easy to use, battery life circa 4 hours. Unit comes with UK maps preloaded, European maps on CD. Loaded all European maps on to 2gb SD card without problem (note always format sd card as FAT, not FAT32).
Originally purchased a Garmin 310, but returned it as the build quality was poor, and the Traffic aerial had to be clipped in to the unit every time you wanted to use it. The aerial was unsightly, keeped on falling off windscreen & offered poor reception. Found Traffic feature a waste of time & money.

So far, so good! - 17 Feb 2007

23 out of 24 found this review helpful.

I purchased the Navman N20 as a replacement for my old Navman i520. My previous experience with the 520 was enough to put me off - completely unreliable, sometimes driving for an hour without getting a signal. I bought my husband a new Navman 530 for his birthday last year, and was amazed at the difference - the speed at which it got a satellite fix was incredible, sometimes before you even started the car. So I decided to give Navman another chance, and so far, everything has gone well. Signal is picked up very quickly, and I am looking forward to trying longer journeys. The mapping is still not 100%, but which system is? So long as you have a reasonable idea where you are going, and forgive the few wee glitches, and the price is now half what I paid for my old Navman - go for it!

second sat nav owned - 30 Nov 2006

30 out of 33 found this review helpful.

I BOUGHT THIS SAT NAV BECAUSE I WANTED UP TO DATE MAPS AND A BETTER GPS SYSTEM, ITS IS VERY EASY TO USE CAN CHANGE THE COLOUR OF THE MAPS, THE SOUND IS VERY LOUD COMPARED TO MY OLD SAT NAV EVEN WITH THE RADIO ON ,FROM SWITCHING IT ON FINDS GPS SIGNAL WITHIN 2 MINUTES IF NO TALL BUILDINGS ARE BLOCKING THE SKYLINE,BACK ON TRACK QUICKLY FINDS WHERE U ARE IF U TAKE WRONG TURNING.

IF YOU CANNOT FIND A POINT OF INTEREST THATS NOT INCUDED IN THE LIST YOU CAN EASILY ADD YOUR OWN IN THE FAVOURITES BY POSTCODE AND EDIT IT WITH YOUR OWN TITLE

YOU CAN ALSO NAVIGATE TO A PLACE BY USING NAVPIX CLICK ON PHOTO WITH DESTINATION DETAILS ADDED IT WILL TAKE YOU THERE. IT GIVES A DEMONSTRATION OF YOUR ROUTE BUT THIS CAN BE QUITE SLOW ESPECIALLY IF ITS A LONG JOURNEY,YOU CAN SCROLL THE MAP USING THE TOUCH SCREEN

YOU DON'T GET A MAINS CHARGER BUT YOU CAN CHARGE FROM USB ON COMPUTER OR BUY USB CHARGER WHICH YOU CAN PLUG INTO MAINS,THE MAPS ARE NOT EXACTLY UP TO DATE I KNOW OF ONE ROAD ON THE M62 WHICH WAS COMPLETED IN THE LAST YEAR IS NOT ON I HOPE THIS DOES NOT PUT YOU OFF PURCHASING THIS SYSTEM

My first Sat Nav! - 10 Nov 2006

39 out of 39 found this review helpful.

As with the previous review, this works straight out of the box ready to go. The only thing it doesn't come with is a standard mains charger so you must either charge in the car or via USB. In use the system is fairly straight forward and generally easy to use. The touchscreen works well and the dedicated buttons make the system easier to use when out and about as opposed to touchscreen only units, the buttons also have their own back light which is very handy.

Battery life is good, the voices fine (although there are only 2 UK voices to choose from). Some people complain the speaker isn't loud enough but I haven't had a problem so far. Most importantly it gets you where you want to go, which is the whole point after all. The Back-On-Track feature works perfectly which means if you know a better route just take it and the unit recalculates the route to match your location.

There are also good route planning options such as waypoints and avoid areas. There is even a detour function which is similar to the roadblock function on the TomTom units. I haven't really used other makes in anger but the Navman does all I want it to. There is also the option for real-time traffic via the optional T1 traffic module which could be very handy if you do a lot of miles.

Highly recommended.

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