What a great gps/navigator

So tell us 'techno idiots' a bit about it.

How much? is it easy to use? etc etc

I looked at those before I bought my Magellan.... a quick question, how is it for entering waypoints and tracks etc??? A clubby showed me his Navman and he (nor I) could figure out how to enter waypoints in it.... I thought I read somewhere the Mio was easy to use.... is it??

Just wonderin'..

Currently the local Dick Smith is selling the Navman Pin with Smartst V3, it is marked on the back as Mio 186, for reduced price of $784. We used one on our trip through Tassie via Melbourne. Really please we had one, especially in Melbourne.

The word on expansys.com its being replace later this year hence the price drop.

Regards
Russell

I'll second the recommendation for Destinator. I run that on my XDA IIi and its pretty excellent. Its got a couple of quirks, sometimes it doesn't think you can turn right at a set of lights, on some roundabouts it says turn right, turn right, turn right, turn left ;-)

Destinator will run on almost any PocketPC which the Mio is. So if its cheaper to go and get a PDA (like maybe a HP 4150) GPS reciever, (ebay is a good source for those) and Destinator software separately (from wherever...)
then that might be a better way to go.

These sound great for the big cities.
How do they rate in forest tracks, compared with Laptop/Palm & OziExplorer and 50k maps? Or do they each have their particular advantages?
Gerry

I'm happy with my Mio 168 and CoPilot Live.
Have used it from Darwin to Adelaide, Brisbane to Perth, Sydney to Newcastle.
Did you set the warning distance for your turns - it is switchable how far in advance you want the 'voice' to tell you b4 the turn. Admittedly, when set to alert you at 200m's, you are usually only about 100~150m away.
I do not rely on the voice solely. I believe the greatest asset of the Mio is that you pre-plan your trip b4 you go - on either the PC or the Mio . You use the "live" guidance as a check as you proceed - thus you do not end up too fasr off course if you do make a wrong turn.

With Oze loaded, you can do your planning and put in way points and notes etc on your PC b4 you go - just transfer across to Mio when you are ready. You can have your route showing up live as you drive along. Then save your routes at the end of a trip. I'm no expert with Oze but know enough to get by for the odd bush trip.

You can have the gps working in either CoPilot OR Oziex, not both concurrently.

Destinator is sold here

I also used Destinator 3 to make my way around Sydney recently. Saved us from a lot I fights I can imagine. However I didn't realise how many bloody tunnels there are in Sydney!