Don’t Buy a Navman
G’day all 🙂
I bought a NavMan a year and a bit ago, for a fairly significant sum of money – $459 I think or thereabouts.
I recently checked out the website to get a pricing on a new set of maps as the 2005 maps that come with it are a little dated now. The price? $179!
For that money you can almost buy a new GPS these days.
Mind you I’m not sure what you should buy. Around the same time a customer bought a Garmin GPS, and their map update was free last month. Unfortunately they’ll only post the maps to you, and the delay time is six weeks!
Hopefully Google and the Mobile Phone companies will put these greedy inefficient companies out of business with their own GPS services over time.
End of Rant 🙂
Agreed. DONT BUY A NAVMAN.
When I first loaded the Navdesk application on my laptop, it said there were updates. According to the instructions, you follow the links to download and apply the updates.
This will DELETE you current maps. THEN ask you for $129 for the subscription to the free updates.
What you have then is a plastic brick. You have to re-install your maps from the DVD if you still have it, AND that will put your Navman back to as-you-bought-it state. ie, any updates you had are lost.
Rotsa Ruck!