Navman icn530

[Piggers]

Does anyone have any experience of a Navman iCN530, good or bad ?

I guess the obvious part is that they probably aren't waterproof.... but Costco are selling them for £141.00 on the 23rd October, which seems reasonably cheap....


Cheers, Piggers

 

[HMR]

Does anyone have any experience of a Navman iCN530, good or bad ?

I guess the obvious part is that they probably aren't waterproof.... but Costco are selling them for £141.00 on the 23rd October, which seems reasonably cheap....

You get what you pay for.

Same big problem as with all navigators except Garmin; No PC-based route planning software makes them limited to "guide me to a given place" and not useful for "follow a nice road". This means that it is probably great in the car but not so greate on the bike.

 

[Piggers]

You get what you pay for.

Same big problem as with all navigators except Garmin; No PC-based route planning software makes them limited to "guide me to a given place" and not useful for "follow a nice road". This means that it is probably great in the car but not so greate on the bike.

Cheers HMR, I hadn't realised that, I guess I had better start looking for a Garmin.

Cheers, Piggers

 

[jefformston]

PC-based route planning

You get what you pay for.

Same big problem as with all navigators except Garmin; No PC-based route planning software makes them limited to "guide me to a given place" and not useful for "follow a nice road". This means that it is probably great in the car but not so greate on the bike.

Sorry to say, but not true. I use a PDA running teleAtlas maps & I can plan routes on my PC and transfer them to the PDA. I can also plan routes on the 'hoof' whilst having lunch or coffee break. Garmin have a number of advantages over other GPS systems, but this isn't one of them.