Satnav apps

[bb1boy]

I follow instructions from a girl.

Brave, brave man..

[94-si-vtec-jdm]

I have a couple of mates who're mobile service techs. One of them has a Garmin and the other a TomTom. they normally drive if we're going to a car show or whatever, somewhere (fuel allowance etc.) so I'm used to seeing the kit in action. I really can't see any benefit in those systems over using a decent app on my phone though?

I'm only going on the limited experience I had with the I-phone 5 'Maps' app so am making the assumption that you must have phone signal for the sat-nav apps to work correctly?? I've driven through areas where there is no or very limited signal (& definitely no 3g) for enough time for you to get lost without a map or sat nav and Tom has always been faultless. Plus the screen size as well, I have the wide-screen Tom and it's so simple to use but I suppose size & operating system is always subject to personal choice.

[94-si-vtec-jdm]

2 x 32gb SD cards, SD slot on the HU, sorted

What's your HU?

Pioneer MVH8300BT. Takes an SD card (only one) so i now only have two SD cards in the car, one in the HU and one in the ashtray. Saves on the hundreds of MP3 CDs i used to have lying around. Also go a USB slot in the front to play from a USB stick, or phone, although i don't use it.

SD card players are definitely the way forward.

Nice!

Did you look at the hard-drive ones as well? If so what did you think?

I like the idea of the sd cards, never really considered it as an option. How many pre-outs does that Pioneer have?

[Donald]

I'm only going on the limited experience I had with the I-phone 5 'Maps' app

That explains everything, you're right in your judgement IMO. iPhone Maps is terrible.