GPS Navigation

I've been wanting to get one for aaages but had a few other priorities first but I got lost (in the wops out west) for the last time fuck it.

What is the difference between all the brands, and what is the difference between say, the $300-400 units and the more expensive units?

What features should I look for, what are potentially annoying things that I should avoid? How easy is it to put destinations in (making it more likely to be used) and how do you update maps?

Um... anything else?

Pros:
Navman
Unidens (LATEST model!!)

Cons:
Tom Tom
Garmin
Anything else..


The Navman are point and shoot, and easy to use. Good value for money.

The Unidens are point and shoot with cool extras (like 3d lane changing indication for motorways etc). Good value for money. DO not buy their smallest model, it's impossible to see anything on.

Once you go GPS you don't go back.

i note you replaced your stolen one with a dead tree map

Tom Tom was always recommended previously in tech forum... what's changed?

GPS for getting around Auckland?

R U SRS?

I can't understan why you need a GPS in Auckland. If you can see the Skytower then it is impossible to get lost, and if you can't see the Skytower - why, you might as well go the whole hog and move to the Tron.

Well I have no idea what the rest of the world is like, but you can certainly benefit from gps in Auckland imo.

•Auckland's landmass is huge. Parts of North, West I have never been to or been to so few times as to no remember. Also South and East I'm no longer familiar with, hell, even Central.

• Some streets aren't signposted or the signs are obscured.
• Sometimes they look different on the map.
• I'd rather not pull over and study a map enroute to make sure that I'm still on the right path (see previous point).
• Hell, I'd rather not have to work out my journey, especially when it spans several pages (as it did a week ago when I had to travel out to Henderson Valley late at night - and I've never been there before).
• Finding businesses and sometimes houses especially at night is a fucking pain in the arse when none of them are numbered.

Probably many more reasons, this is just all I could think of for now. I want to be able to get somewhere with the least fuss, so to imply that one does not need gps in Auckland seems to me to be a little um, presumptuous.

what's the deal with the iPhone GPS and streetview? Can you have streetview synced with the GPS so as you move your streetview is updating?

gps is somewhat patchy from inside a car (on a cell phone anyway)

cell phone tower proximity with google maps or google earth is ok (i use it a fair bit) but data while travelling is difficult as if the phone switches towers it seems to break the connection while downloading the maps (more of a problem in built up areas and motorways.

The Android phone uses it's internal compass and acceleromater to align the image for you as you angle it and turn it around! Which is pretty choice one.

I fail to see how people get lost in AKL.

Not yet, I assume that'll be next.

At the moment you have to put an address into the Maps application, then you can click on the address, move around etc.

Maps on Nokia handsets don't require any data use at all as the maps are hard loaded on the handset So you travel to another country, have the handset in offline mode and still be able to navigate.

Okay, can everybody put their dicks away and just tell answer some questions eh?

Problem with Nokia Maps is that you have to pay a monthly subscription for navigation. Sure, you get GPS for free, so you can tell when you are, but I think when you've paid near a grand or even more for a phone, you should get it included :/