Re: Not quite cutting edge GPS, but darn good deal (I think)
- From: "Timo Geusch" <tnewsSPAMMENOT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 21:48:21 +0100
SteveH scribbled on the back of a napkin:
dwb <parc_erom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://www.gpsw.co.uk/details/prod3167.html
Refurb'd Street Pilot III GPS with power cable, motorcycle mount,
car mount and City Navigator software along with some other stuff.
£150.
That's quite a good deal I think.
I'd entered all my card details, then was just about to click to buy
it, when I realised that, although it's a cracking unit, the mapping
is out of date and 128mb isn't really enough memory for a Garmin unit
- you'd have to selectively pick the detailed maps you want to
download. (Not to mention the criminal cost of Garmin data cards).
AFAIK (these things have been discussed on ukgser recently) these are
refurbished units. No idea if the usual Garmin customer service of
'latest maps for free the first time round' applies to these but it may
well. Even then the yearly Garmin tax isn't exactly excessive...
A quick google suggests that 128MB is the max size card this can take,
plus it seems to receive the mapping data by *shudder* a serial cable.
ISTR that you can get 2610s for 300-something quid somewhere and they
are the far better unit. Plus they take bog-standard CF cards for map
storage. Still takes ages to download the map data (this time via USB)
but hey...
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