GPS Navigator

Well... maybe...

A few weeks ago I would have said the same but I recently acquired a Mio C220 from Harvey Norman as a freebie when I changed to a Next G phone - a nice sweetener but they'll loose money on me :)

Now the Mio is what I suspect most would say is a street map device but I have been very surprised to learn that it has a track "somewhere near Woods Point (Vic)" on it which is not on most maps above 1:50000 scale and leads to one of my favourite camping spots - _definite_ 4WD country!

Another surprise was that it also contains all the tracks for a trip I'm planning across the Davies Plain (again _definite_ 4WD country) - I did this trip a year ago and know the route I'll take and have loaded it into the Mio - I'll still take a notebook computer with mapping software and paper maps but I suspect the Mio will guide me through.

Mike Harding

Typical of you Harding to fall for that.... Just typical. I'm not going to admit to being tempted but I was.

My only concern with the elcheapo "navman" things is that getting updates may be frustrating. A friend has the "Aldi" one and it works with typical teutonic efficiency however getting updates is not that easy, they have to be downloaded from the web and payed for before download and there are not enough of them around for unscrupulous persons to organise a black market in updates.

I guess as time goes by these like all technology will get to throw away status, remember when you had to have the CD with maps on it in the "navigator" and they cost $5000 a go?

I have a Navman base model for turn by turn and they want to charge be $250 for updated maps.....crazy I say just crazy

>Typical of you Harding to fall for that.... Just typical.

Sorry Fawlty :( Call it a weakness :)

Updates! This thing has the new Eastlink tollway complex on it and the damn road hasn't been built yet!

You're right of course; won't be too long before these things are $50 each.

Mike Harding

PS. It has this really sexy English female voice Fawlty which keeps ordering me to do things :)

Just be careful Mike.

Australian males are trained from birth to ignore directions from a female voice in the left ear.

I remember a mate getting lost with his brand new navman afew years ago. He ignored a turn instruction "because it was obviously wrong" and took a long detour!

:o)

Pete

Brilliant! :)

So from this Mike: PS. It has this really sexy English female voice Fawlty which keeps ordering me to do things :) we can deduce that you enjoy being ordered around by a sexy piece of english casual skirt???? My god man I think you need one of those Alfoil hats!
I'm bleep offa simply because my Grandfathers are both dead and would have been the only people with the nouse to think "Hey Basil could use one of those for Xmas".... It's a nice gesture on Nevill's part though, such a practical gift.

>My god man I think you need one of those Alfoil hats!

I bought _two_ last year... but they did no good :(

>you enjoy being ordered around by a sexy piece of english
>casual skirt????

Emmm... errrr... I'm willing to give it a try :)

Mike Harding

Brian

There is a form that you fill out on the Garmin site that says the more time you post GOOD things about us and can all other products at the same time. you will become a legend... LOL

Richard

>Forget all abour that OziExplorer , It's crap as far as I'm concerned

So... a balanced and considered analysis of the products available in this area then Doug?

Mike Harding

Mike
Good to see you can actually read......oh and copy and paste. So I take it you have experience with both products, I have, I own the CD's of both, I can add T4A to my GPS , No I do not own a non waterproof/Dustproof PDA, and have no intention of needing one and as I said [as far as I'm concerned] neville G ask a question, I gave my opinion and did not order the Neville G with OR ELSE ,
I didn't see any helpful information come from your input , in fact I don't see much help come from any of your inputs except condemnation to anyone else who does , If all you can do is criticise everyonee else over products then best you just BUTT OUT.

Doug

Because, Doug, I’ll not stand idly by whilst you rubbish a clever and innovative Australian product, developed and well supported by one man, which has become the premier mapping software in Australia and is sold and used across the globe with the idiotic comment “it’s crap”. Some of us still believe we should be proud of things developed in Australia and encourage our developers and entrepreneurs not rubbish them.

Mike Harding

neville
Thanks , glad to have been of some assistance ....unlike some other.

Doug

I told ya, one for Doug.
Maybe he gets his info from Dusty

Brian
Don't let all my secrets out ....lol