Ex-Display Garmin Sat Navs Halfords

rebelbmx

Google maps works with data roaming off once it's set up. Sometimes it might stop working but I just turn on roaming and fix it, then turn roaming off and away I go. I know you won't get the live updates but I don't mind.

Or else if im visiting a city abroad I will pinpoint the locations on Google maps I want to visit and then download the map and use it offline.

Into The Blue

seems our northern cousins have a better sense of direction than us, plenty of availability on halfords.co.uk.. with conversion, Nuvicam comes in at €165. Collect from Armagh

soirish

Into The Blue wrote: »

seems our northers cousins have a better sense of direction than us, plenty of availability on halfords.co.uk.. with conversion, Nuvicam comes in at €165. Collect from Armagh

Any chance to get this delivered to PM?

dashcamdanny

I would not be in a hurry to buy garmin ex display.

I find they get troublesome after one year of constant use.
My current 54 nuvi has trouble finding satellites after 14 months, my last garmin nuvi42 liked to restart itself a few times a day. Others I work with who use them for work find the same.
They expire..

Now I can only imagine the x display garmins may be already half way through there life if not more.

Yamanoto

cormie wrote: »

It's all well and good saying you can download maps in advance on HERE, but when you are going to several new destinations daily and may not even know about half of them in advance, you can't really be downloading maps in advance for everything.

Just on the above, my work routinely involves travel with very little notice to client sites in Europe & the US. It could be heading for a fairly mammoth manufacturing plant in Leipzig or a small specialist workshop somewhere in rural Michigan. It's often to destinations that are entirely new to me too & my Garmin's what I rely on, with Here maps on the phone purely as a back up. To cover all my bases on that end, I picked up a 64GB card for the phone & downloaded Europe & the States in their entirety - 10 & 5 GB respectively.

Great post btw, comprehensive & informative.

cormie

Yep, definitely great having all the maps on your memory already and easy enough to manage if it's just the one device. I was having to keep 5 Garmins up to date and it may not be until the version after the next version of a road being completed, that it would show on the map. Google is very convenient that you never need to download and save anything and the maps update pretty quick to reflect road changes.

I wonder how open Google Maps are in terms of creating an app around it, then you could just have a separate phone running the map app, maybe you wouldn't even need a sim card in it, it just updates over wifi, saves to micro SD and uses the GPS/wifi on the phone to navigate. If an app could be designed with the advanced features that are missing from Google maps, it could be brilliant.

Google is of course far from perfect. Some of the navigation choices are a little silly. Especially involving tolls where it might take you on a journey that's one minute faster, but will cost you €15 in tolls (M6 toll in the UK is a good example) or it might take you on a journey that's going to use 20km more fuel, but will again, get you there a minute quicker. It would be great to be able to input what your time is worth. How far you're willing to detour to save paying tolls etc.

tyney

Just a quick update...
So, I was a bit annoyed at loads of other people getting their garmin, and me not getting mine, so I sent Halfords customer service a polite email.
Thought nothing more of it, then got a phonecall this morning, asking if I would like to collect the one I ordered. It was waiting in the manager's office with a further 10 euro off for my troubles. Sometimes it's worth firing off an email, and fair play to customer service, I'm now a happy customer again.