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I have the Evesham Nav-cam 7000. It was recently on offer for £150+vat at Makro. It has a speed camera database that gives audible warnings at 600 and 100 metres. The database includes known mobile sites as well as fixed cameras. Updates can be downloaded from the Nav-cam website and are free for the first six months. The Navigation has one eccentric foible in that it directs the driver into every layby! Other than that it does a good job of getting from A to B. It comes with a cradle to mount onto the screen via a suction cup.

Good value when you consider that GPS camera locators were selling for £400 a few short months ago.

 re Aldi have a Sat Nav coming up soon. £170 i think.

Market Harborough had some this morning reduced from 249 down to 169? if I remember correctly

I bought a separate set of Western Europe cds for my PDA-based Tomtom, and they are also suitable for all TT Go devices. They cost about £100, from Expansys.co.uk, but they were bloomin' difficult to get hold of, having placed orders with 2 other retailers only to find they were out of stock. Something funny seemed to be going on, and after receiving them i see you can now buy a download version direct from Tomtom for about the same price.

Speed camera POIs are available for free download from http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/, and a quick google will turn up many other useful POIs.

With traffic updates, i believe you need to have a GPRS-compatible mobile phone through which the TTGo will communicate. I also think there's a subscription charge for this service, which is part of the 'Tomtom Plus' enhancements.

Hope this helps.

Paul.

Great answer Paulydee

Just what I actually needed to know. Many thanx for the Expansys website. TomTom software is vastly over-priced and is a total rip off but then, what software from the big companies isn't it?

also try www.dnote.nl for POIs.

Its a bit much that the database for Pocketgps was created by us, the users. PocketGPS always said that they would never charge for that download - seems taht they are as trustworthy as any other company...