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| Posted by robroy290 Navman S555 Spirit I just bought this last week and have given it a fair old few miles...about 800 so far. here are my thoughts so far Positives: :D + Good mapping and up to date. + Clear screen even in sunlight + Fast loading, starts to give directions before all data fully loaded + Good price from Argos, £150. £100 less than Halfords for better model + Desktop software easy to understand + Map update available, All cameras in Europe available Negatives :( - Even on the Mio website it is unclear which model I log in with Moov, S555 Spirit...even the phone support guy was unsure. - Built in Camera audio warning insifficient, in one day i had blocked it out. And on this model the sound files are not available to change....as far as i can see as they are DAT files. - Power cable is very chunky - Loading the POI's from here is easy enough, but they warn you about cameras going the other way which is unnecessary. (My Talex only warned about relevant cameras) - On the motorway if it detects a camera on a side road it warns you about it. Even with the distance set at a low one. - Seems to get mixed up with cameras, sometimes warning after it has passed!!! - I loaded a few POI's from here and after only three files the memory was full. If I have made any errors or if there are things i do not know I apologise and would welcome any tips Rob |
| Posted by robroy290 Tip Because of the maximum POI limit, after some thoughts I reduced the amount of POI's by only putting in those I need. That is my sales area is basically the M42 motorway to the highlands of Scotland I never go south of that. I just found the latitude (GPS Coordinate) of the southern most place I visit and deleted all the ones below that. For example my office is in Warwick, so any where below the latitude line for Warwick I deleted from the POI lists. Got rid of about 10,000 points. Rob |
| Posted by robroy290 Mio Navman OK Ive had this unit for a fair while now. To be honest as a camera detector it is a waste of time. The inbuilt warning is simply a chime and you cant change it. You get used to it quite quickly and I now ignore it. I also updated the unit from the Navman website and the unit does not detect some cameras that have been there for years. It also does not warn about mobile cameras. :evil: Do not buy this unit if you want a Camera Detector. It is pretty good as a Satnav but for cameras AVOID IT!!! |