Introduction
We’ve been testing navis, and not few of them. Thanks to PDA Futár, GPS Trade Kft and Navi-Gate Kft 8 devices designed for navigation have arrived together. The field was quite varied, as the cheapest piece did cost just a bit more than 50.000 HUF, whereas the most expensive one has more than double the price. Of course this does not mean that the participants of our test cover the whole offer, but we have been selecting from the ones with the highest sales.
So what can we get for this? According to current fashion this is called a PNA, Personal Navigation Assistant. Translating to standard language, this means a device restricted to navigational functions compared to a PDA (Personal Digital Assistant), of course in case the operation in the manufacturer’s workshop was successful. In a word, it is a navi. I could start cracking some cheap jokes like I haven’t been testing for a long time and now Bog dumps so many navis on me, but on one hand this is not true, and on the other hand I leave the use of cheap jokes to Bog. (I will take advantage of this possibility on the following pages – Bog) We chose to test so many devices intentionally, as our goal was to clear up what are we paying for in the much more expensive devices and if it has any sense.
When visiting CeBIT in spring, it was already clear that personal navigation is one of the fields going through an explosive growth. This is not only true for Hungary, but it can be experienced in all parts of Europe, but in America and Asia too (there especially). Days of paper maps and methods like "let’s ask the auntie over there" are numbered. Rapidly falling prices and highly precise and up-to-date navigational software have a huge part in this evolution. These software are changing from alternatives to necessities for many of us not only because of their better and better map database, but also because of the extending POI database, which turns them into guidebooks. And then I haven’t yet said anything about the comfort provided by the TMC (okay, this doesn’t yet function in Hungary and maybe it wouldn’t really have sense in Budapest), but all these functions show that these machines are becoming a "part of the household" like the television, or the washing machine (whoa, this Terminator-like idea is not too attractive, but nothing better occurred to me right now).
The participants of our test are very much alike, with the exception of one – a paternity investigation would probably have some ugly results. It’s navigational software are from the Nav’n’go, no matter what name do they have. This is the reason why we won’t mention the precision of the maps and the functions of the navi software, as we already did this many times, it’s enough to remember the review of Mio C310, or the Mio C510, or even the Mio C250. There is no lack of comparative reviews, in the test bearing the title Cheap navis against each other we had the opportunity of getting to know the capabilities of the software most suitable for the Hungarian market. The one and only refreshing exception is a Nüvi device, which already had some representatives in the editorial office, for example the Nüvi 310, and the Nüvi 660 too. The latter one appears in my current review too. Our dear readers can now rightfully ask: why? Well, the answer is simple: the Nüvi 660’s price has fallen a lot and this way it can be a part of this review’s “contest”. We have hidden a surprise somewhere in this test, but we won’t tell you where. :-)
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