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Amazon have the Tom Tom One for under £100 at the moment if anyone is interested?

I registered my new sat nav last night and apparently I'm eligable for a free map upgrade to the latest maps. So I signed up for that and will be getting them through the post soon.

The reason that I got mine so cheap (and loads of others are so cheap at the moment) was because the new model is comming out. But as far as I can tell, the only difference between the new and old is the updated map. How pleased am I with that!

So if you've recently got a new sat nav, register it and you never know you might get a free map too.

i hope you use the sat nav to good use lomster, living room to kitchen and back again bringing dave his tea...

ah it's been a while for a bit of lomster-baiting...

here's the shins...fire away...

TomTom 720 user here...

Blooming great... you talk to it, it talks to you. You speak your desired destination, and it finds it.

It's also a Bluetooth mobile phone hands-free, which is a bonus... 'cos it still miffs me to see eejits nattering on their mobiles whilst driving—there's really no excuse.

I notice the 720 has dropped in price since I got mine, but frankly it's worth every penny as it never fails from a-b.

It even managed to get me around Valencia in Spain—which for anyone uninitiated or experienced with that area, it's possibly the scariest city I've ever driven to.

For me, TomTom have the edge. I've had Garmin and NavMan in the past, and the TomTom device knocks spots off them in terms of usability, functionality and aesthetics.

(Oh, and you can plug your iPod into it too and control the iPod from the device itself, playing the audio through your car stereo! Wonderful!)

I don't trust any electrical device that you speak to. They have a tendency to struggle with my accent. I would like the version with Stephen Frys voice on though.

Tom Toms let you use John Cleese's Basil Fawlty voice.....

Just got a Tomtom One this weekend...

...I now have Darth Vader in my car, advising me how best to complete my Journey To The Dark Side

I have an A to Z - no annoying woman talking to me, and all for under a tenner!

Totally Mental wrote:I have an A to Z - no annoying woman talking to me, and all for under a tenner!

Not married either then?

Totally Mental wrote:I have an A to Z - no annoying woman talking to me, and all for under a tenner!

Yeah, but on a pitch black night on some country road trying to find the venue for a dinner party, A-Z in one hand, steering wheel in the other, interior light on, trying not to mount the grass verge while trying to figure out if you missed the turning a few miles back...? I'll take the annoying woman's voice anytime. And she's not annoying. She's reassuring. And her name in Jane.

... and...

If you've got 15 minutes handy, you can record your own voice prompts on the TomTom 520 (or get someone else to do them!).

Sounds like a novelty, but again proves how easily these devices become your friend.

TomTom all the way for me Lomster. Really user friendly, nice clear mapping and the voices aren't too annoying.

(Unless you download Yoda that is. "Hmm, wrong turn you have taken. Turn round you should." Not good.)

Just wanted to revise my praise for the Navman F20.

I bought the connectivity kit for £18 which includes a cd rom & USB cable, I assumed that some form of map updates would be available through the use of a computer. I find now that only speed camera updates costing over £30 are available online & new map SD cards cost £80 without knowing which roads are updated.

Does anyone know if Tom Tom offer free or cheaper map updates? I don't mind paying a reasonable fee but I might as well buy a new sat nav every year with the money i'd spend on Navman updates.