OK, whilst the TomTom debate has been raging on, and due to needing some satnav today, last night I downloaded and installed the trial of Wayfinder.

Without reading the instructions, and just going from common sense and 2 years of using TomTom3 on my PDA, I got into the car this morning to head 3 hours North for a meeting.

Set the destination, calibrated it for Miles and so forth and set off...

It worked flawlessley with my old silver TomTom GPS receiver, never dropped connection once, and gave great instruction acurately and in plenty of time.

Took me to the doorstep and back home again. So 6hrs uninterrupted usage.

So, that said, and as someone who has been very impressed with Wayfinder on day one.... what are its drawbacks??? what am I missing??? and is TomTom mobile really better???

I would seriously love to know any downsides, cause at 99 Euros for a years licence I would go with this Wayfinder at the moment.

Tomtom use preinstalled mapps and wayfinder uses a server with updated maps and tomtom will be cheaper by long time but not updated and the wayfinder will be cheaper for now but if you use it 10-15h a week the gprs will eat you money. Dont know if you can buy maps for wayfinder tho.

/Kim

Thanks for that info Kim, apparently you can now buy "maps to mobile" which cuts down the gprs used to just route planning.... but I see what you mean.

What a shame though, since it really worked well for me today...:frown:

I've also been looking for at satnav solutions other than TOM TOM due to the regularly reported problems on the N70. Anyone tried Navig8?

there is ways to get around the payment of tomtom(not saying more then that atm) if you have an gps reciver which you do. Route66 got a mobile navigations system that works with the n70
http://www.66.com/route66/homepage.php?cid=SE

Hope that help if not, ask again and ill answer.

/Kim

not quite sure where you are heading Kimy, but maybe in the same direction as my thread re buying the map from TomTom and using the 5.2 patch?

interested to know if there is a legitimate other way...

Thanks for that info Kim, apparently you can now buy "maps to mobile" which cuts down the gprs used to just route planning.... but I see what you mean.

What a shame though, since it really worked well for me today...:frown:

Actually maps can be downloaded for free from the Wayfinder site (once you register). But definitely you need a flat GPRS rate to use Wayfinder. Another drawback is that you must pay every year to use the service (they also sell a lifetime license but it's linked to your phone IMEI - no good!).
I have been using Wayfinder for a year with a Nokia 6630 and a SE P910 and I am very satisfied but their pricing scheme is really too expensive!

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I would prefer just software to load onto my existing memory card. I don't really want to keep swapping cards every time I need to use the s/w.

Surely the answer to that is to buy a nice big mem card? I know the n70 will take u to 512MB, but will it take one of the 1GB cards? That would solve any mem problems

Route66 has a navigation system for n70 here it is
http://www.66.com/route66/homepage.php?cid=UK

check it out, sounds good and the free tomtom i spoke about is not leagal so i wont go further in on that for now.

/Kim