TomTom Navigator 5 Great Britain Reviews
Product Type: Tomtom in GPS Navigation
Newest Review: ... on John Cleese because it was the only one that was clear, funny and not annoying. Compared to modern Tom Toms the display ... more
... was more basic with fewer options but it still gave you plenty to choose from and all of this was easy to find via the clearly laid out menu. When I occasionally used it in areas I knew well I was often surprised at the routes it chose - it would sometimes want to take me on very narrow roads and on one occasion the wrong way up one way streets. After upgrading to Navigator 6 I found this less of an issue so I suppose you could knock points off Navigator 5 for that but overall it did such a good job I find it hard to gi...more
Customer TomTom Navigator 5 Great Britain Reviews (1)
by - written on 04/11/10 (Very useful, 38 readings)
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This was the first satellite navigation that I ever owned. I got it on ebay for £100 which I thought was quite a bargain at the time as the full size versions were still selling for £400 or more. It was compatible with Symbian phones and as such worked perfectly with my Nokia N70 and later with the N95. Installation was also fairly straightforward being mostly a case of dragging and dropping files from the cd onto the phone, firstly to run the setup then to copy the maps across. It was uncommon to find phones with integrated GPS at the time but a GPS receiver would only cost £30 and many models shared the same battery as my N70; this meant that I could quickly ... Read the complete review
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