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Right, my Mum wants a sat nav, probably a Tom Tom for Christmas but, which one? She would just like a model that is not to technical and easy for her to understand. look forward to any recommendations.
The best Tom Tom is probably the Garmin Nuvi 1300T Sat Nav!
Available from the high street at under 100.00 GBP
This comes from someone with both types in their family.
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As a garmin nuvi owner, have to disagree, John's updated tomtom for the motorbike is far superior. We use it in the van.
No matter what settings I put in the garmin it takes me to london over the humber bridge and no motorways at all. If I put in avoid toll roads it still manages to get me there without hitting a motorway.
or it would if i was daft enought to follow it.
Reason for change by suedew: my spacebarisfaulty :-)
I must admit I am swaying towards a Tom Tom just because I am more familar with them after owning and still have an ancient tom tom Go 500 I will be setting up and installing whatever mum gets, so for me personally, I would rather a Tom Tom.
If she's not going abroad, pretty much any TomTom will be fine. Its the European ones you need to watch because some of the entry level ones such as the XL don't only have 2Gb memory which is not large enough for the 'full' europe map.
We have a TomTom Via Live 120 which is the same size screen as the XL (via 125 is the same as an XXL). It has live traffic data, live weather and a Google Search function. Basically if the place or business is listed on Google it will look it up live online so in many cases rules out the need for many POI's. It does this via its own 3G connection but does need renewing after 12mths if you want to continue to use that area of its functionality - think its between €30-€50. You can load regular POI's on if you want.
Furthermore it 'speaks' the road and place names which earlier models do not AND doubles as a pretty good bluetooth hands free mobile phone device!
Hands free usage, so if it finds traffic on your route it will tell you the delay then you speak 'Yes' or 'No' rather then touch the screen (which you can do as well).
Very impressed - currently £150 online or £130 from Currys if you aren't bothered about the Live (weather/traffic/google) Services I've described.
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I will be setting up and installing whatever mum gets, so for me personally, I would rather a Tom Tom. 
