Navigon BlueMedia PNA Sat-Nav

[longdog]

Anyone got any experience with one of these? If so, are they any good?

 

[Nyk7]

I have been using one of these for the last three months, for me it is great. Value for money with full euro maps etc and a compact size and good screen size compared with the Quest and the brick like dimesions of the 2610 swung it for me. I got mine from www.gps4less.co.uk who seem to be the most competitive on cost with free delivery. As always shop around. It works very well in the car and three days last weekend in Normandy using all the great biking back roads on my Tiger did not put a foot wrong. I have used a standard ram mount which has worked very well with the stanard supplied holder/cradle. Ram man had not seen one of these units until he saw mine. The only downside is it is not waterproof, but a aquabag or similar worked in todays showers, and you cannot plot your route on a pc as like a Garmin you do it on the unit. It also has inernal batteries which last about 5 hours. I have plugged it into my "Starcom" and have powered via the bike accessory socket. Hope this helps, On two.
Nick

 

[BurnieM]

Looks like a Mitac MIO 136

Others are also selling it with their own software/mapping

 

[longdog]

I have been using one of these for the last three months, for me it is great. Value for money with full euro maps etc and a compact size and good screen size compared with the Quest and the brick like dimesions of the 2610 swung it for me. I got mine from www.gps4less.co.uk who seem to be the most competitive on cost with free delivery. As always shop around. It works very well in the car and three days last weekend in Normandy using all the great biking back roads on my Tiger did not put a foot wrong. I have used a standard ram mount which has worked very well with the stanard supplied holder/cradle. Ram man had not seen one of these units until he saw mine. The only downside is it is not waterproof, but a aquabag or similar worked in todays showers, and you cannot plot your route on a pc as like a Garmin you do it on the unit. It also has inernal batteries which last about 5 hours. I have plugged it into my "Starcom" and have powered via the bike accessory socket. Hope this helps, On two.
Nick

Great, thanks Nick! What about the European maps? Can you download them onto a larger flash memory card? I'm off to Holland next month and France, Switzerland and Italy in August. Will I get all this on the memory card? Thanks in advance.
BTW, how big is the screen in comparison to a Quest or 2610?

 

[jefformston]

Navigon

I've got the PDA version, same graphics and maps. Works very well, mapping seems good. Used it on a trip to Austria early in the year, only issue I found was that you have to change maps at border crossings. I've upgraded the memory card to 512mb and have the whole of France stored together with strip maps of the Benelux countries and a 3 hours or so of music to listern to on the move.

 

[Nyk7]

Great, thanks Nick! What about the European maps? Can you download them onto a larger flash memory card? I'm off to Holland next month and France, Switzerland and Italy in August. Will I get all this on the memory card? Thanks in advance.
BTW, how big is the screen in comparison to a Quest or 2610?

Another reason I went for the BM was the quality and all the Euro maps, there is a 256 mb SD card supplied with the UK & Ireland already loaded 114 mb and France 205 mb, The Alps 211 mb, Italy 150 mb, Germany 214mb, Beulux 69mb as well as Iberia and Scandinavia are on CD's supplied as standard. I have bought some extra larger capacity SD cards for these and they work well. There are other brands that use the same hardware platform but use different software. As always "your choice"! The screen is bigger than a Quest at 72 x 55 like a PDA but in a more compact unit. Hope that helps.

 

[Fanum]

However in tests it wasn’t without its problems, mainly that the software was slow to update by about five seconds. Now five seconds doesn’t seem like a long time but at 50 miles an hour it’s enough to have gone past the turning that you’ve realised you were meant to take. In the unit’s defence there is a voice option to give extra instruction and pre-warn you of the turning, but with the radio up you’re not going to hear it.

SOURCE

Name: Ken
Location: London
Review: Makro do UK map version for £200 + vat and UK/European maps for £250+vat.
Date Posted: 14 March 2005

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One worry for me would be that I haven't seen ANY references to how waterproof the thing is.......and as that info is conpicuous by it's absence, I'd guess that it ISN't waterproof....particularly looking at the thing closely;