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Navman N60i Portable Car Navigation System With European Mapping | 
 enlarge | Brand: Navman
Category: CE
Buy New: £99.99
New (2) from £99.99
Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 18050
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.7
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.3 x 5
MPN: AA005848
Model: AA005848
EAN: 9419777106487
ASIN: B000INLL1Q
Release Date: September 14, 2006
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The first thing you notice about the brand new N60i is its impressive widescreen. However, thanks to its intelligent design, the N60i is slimmer and lighter than most other navigators in its class. Sleek and robust, the N60i houses a vast array of impressive features. The built-in NavPix camera captures your favourite places in full colour, making it simple to navigate back to them simply by tapping the touch screen. And because the NavPix website features downloadable NavPix photos, the N60i can take you to the best of Europes most exciting cities. The N60i sets the new standard in its class. This is truly ultimate navigation. Key Features State-of-the art 4.3 wide colour touch screen Slim, portable, high quality design NavPixTM Integrated NavPixTM camera Pre-installed European maps (21 countries) Pre-installed safety camera data IR remote control Nearest Parking & Petrol buttons Real-time traffic information (optional) Full 8 digit postcode search facility (UK only) SiRFstarIII Generation 2 GPS receiver Customer Benefits Fun and user-friendly navigation to pictures 2006 Map data New software and user interface Strong and thorough directional graphics Easy widescreen navigation Turn-by-TurnTM voice guided navigation with 3D graphics Drive-AwayTM (works straight out of the box) Back-on-TrackTM (gets you back to your route if you take a wrong turn) Points of Interest import Multiple routing options In the Box: NAVMAN N60i In-car windscreen mount 12V in-car power charger AC adaptor Carry case USB cable IR Remote control Documentation pack (quick reference manual, in-car installation guide, warranty document, GPS FAQ guide, help and support sheet). Full user manual available on website
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 Badly let down by some important shortcomings November 13, 2008
C. Nation (Bristol UK)
I have this N60i unit and T/Tom Euro mapping in a Nokia e61.
Firstly, the screen size. The N/man screen is over twice the width of my Nokia screen [and about the same depth]. The extra width is redundant - not worth paying for. In addition, widescreen units result in a much bigger lump to carry about/store. My phone goes into my shirt pocket. The N60 has to go in a bag or br/case. It's over 4x the volume and weight of the Nok. One aspect of the size I would have expected to see is massive battery life from a big, meaty cell. Not so. The juice runs out on this unit faster than that in my Nokia. It's absolutely essential to run this unit from the car outlet. It's driving all those pointless pixels, see?
As another reviewer has mentioned, the dragging and screen response to tapping is far from satisfactory. On my Nokia, I can navigate the cursor around a map with a 4-way toggle switch. This is accurate, fast and consistent. None of these attributes are shared by the Navman's dragging function. I have found myself scratching away at the screen like a dog at a flea bite.
Messages that pop up on screen will not go away and let you see the map again until you have tapped your choice. When another message follows immediately on clearing the first, this is really irritating, especially if they happen to come up just when you are negotiating some tricky routing. An example of this is a message asking if you will accept a route that involves toll roads. Heading through France towards a UK destination, this message always appears and is immediately followed by another asking if you realise that "one or more ferry crossings" are necessary. Don't think that once you've answered these two questions, you have finished with them. I have found these two messages coming up repeatedly over the course of a two hour trip, sometimes two or three times in instant succession. I'm tapping away at the screen like I'm trying to kill a mosquito.... I guess the ferry warning could be avoided by routing to Calais only but another shortcoming immediately rears its head: a real clanger.
Now you've arrived in Calais and are waiting to load. What better time to plot the route from Dover to The Union jack Club in Sendell St. London SE? No can do. The Navman will only let you plan a route from your present position. This is a really major failing. I am often asked by clients for info about trips we will be making in days to come. This is entirely possible with T/tom s/ware but not with Navman. This drawback alone is very good reason to reject this unit. On tour, I often play around with different routings, some of which will depend on how much time clients spend in any one spot, others may be weather-dependent and so on. Not being able to do this makes any satnav unable to allow advance routing useless for road professionals and highly limiting for amateurs.
With these critical points made, how come I don't give my Navman 1 star and put it on ebay?
1] It does work well purely as a satnav and is a one-lump backup if I lose either my phone [physically or in any other way] and/or the walnut-size Bluetooth satellite receiver needed to feed it data.
2] The Navpix facility is not the gimmick that reviewers, esp in the mags when the Navpix units first appeared, declared it to be. In fact, I wrote to Navman pointing out that Navpix would find many users and the camera ought to be of far greater resolution, to make it useful for producing acceptable quality prints for presentation or display.
In my own case, now that I am doing WW1/2 battlefield tours in Europe, I find the Navpix facility invaluable for building a library of spots, some merely fields or woods out in La France Profonde, others small military cemeteries that clients wish to visit, lost out in the country in a maze of farm lanes.
Do not buy this unit for its w/screen: I assure you, you don't need it. Don't buy it if portability is a consideration. Don't buy it if you would like to use it on battery power for extended [1 hr+] periods. Think carefully about buying it if advanced route planning is at all interesting to you. Avoid at all costs if advance routing is essential to you.
Buy it if the Navpix faciltiy will help you in your work. Then buy a TomTom to avoid the downsides.
 Good quality product May 2, 2008
Caroline Henderson (Brussels)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Purchased Dec 2006 has come down a lot in price.. I paid 300 Euros
My requirements for a navigation system were: Good sized screen, unfussy graphics, simple voice directions and easy to use. This unit fulfills all of the above. I live in Belgium and use the Navman on my travels over France and Germany without any problems. I drove from Brussels to Edinburgh with the Navman keeping me to the correct roads, very reassuring for a woman driver alone...The camera is simple to operate, I've got quite a few locations stored in the memory for future use (ferry terminals, good hotels, that kind of thing)which are found quickly in the 'Navpix' album. The audible language on mine is set at French, which is useful for expanding my vocabulary with the constant repetition (useful feature if you are taking a language course) I can now give directions to someone myself in French, no problem!
Navman N60i February 25, 2008
K. Offord
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Easy to use and accurate. Having had a much older model, I am pleased to see the full postcode search as well as the navpix.
I have had no trouble with the touch screen, or the on/off button as some other users have.The language is good and it tells you which motorway junction to head for and says things like take third on right, which is a more human way of describing things. It gives plenty of warning of turns and when you need to change lanes which the old one did not.
My only gripe is that my old model used to tell me how long the journey would take and so far I have not found this feature on N60i, which is a shame as I show dogs and have to plan my journey times to shows.
This SatNav is a clever bit of kit. January 22, 2008
DCEley (Ipswich, Suffolk.)
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I bought this satnav on a recommendation, and i wasn't disappointed. I am working on various projects around London, and travelling around the M25 and A406 daily, this unit has been spot on, with easy visual and audiable instructions.
This is the clever bit, when arriving at projects I can take a photo add it to my favorites list, and all I have to do when travelling to each project is go to Nav Pics press the photo, and thats it. I have no problems with the touch srceen, and would recommend the T1 Traffic Router to accompany this product. The only negative point is that the photo button is to close to the power button, miner gripe.
This is a straight forward out of the box unit no fancy gimmicks just straight forward navigation.
Excellent widescreen SatNav, but not without the odd irritating quirk October 4, 2007
Aviation Writer (England)
47 out of 47 found this review helpful
I purchased the N60i because it has European maps and features a generously proportioned wide screen touch sensitive display. I wanted a SatNav that would get me from A to B, and I was not interested in additional functionality like blue tooth connectivity, text to speech, or the ability to upload new voices. I went with the bigger N60i primarily because at the time (Sept 2007) there was little difference in price between it and the smaller N40
The N60i is easy to set-up and use straight out of the box provided that you use some sort of stylus (the rounded end of a pen, for example) to go through the set-up menu that automatically opens when you first turn on the device.
As a man with fingers not especially stubby and fingernails that are not long, I learned this the hard way when I went to select which language the device should use. While my finger pressed the screen area over menu option, 'English', the option that the Navman software selected was the one above my finger, 'Dutch'.
It took a few minutes of prodding the screen and going through Dutch menus before I located the language selection page and selected English. And here is where the N60i loses its first star - even having used the special calibration process to refine the accuracy of the touch screen, the N60i's interpretation of where I am gently dabbing the screen with my finger is sometimes considerably off the mark.
I have taken to using some sort of stylus to use the device, which is by no means a hardship but is often an inconvenience as I don't always have a suitable object to hand. Even then, I can tap the screen with a stylus and the screen software does not always select the correct option. Equally, my girlfriend's slender fingers and modest fingernails are no guarantee that it will work every time, either. All in all, this can be frustrating when time is of the essence, or when trying to 'drag' the map around with your finger to trace the route that the N60i has plotted.
Speaking of routes, I am pleased so far with routings that the N60i has calculated for me, and I like the ability to create a multi-stop route. To help refine the unit's calculation of each route, a number of sliding bars and options in the menu help you select routing preferences (such as use of toll roads, preference for fastest journey or shortest distance, propensity to use motorways etc.).
On the downside, I believe that the logic in the software would benefit from reprogramming when it comes to routing through cities: I conducted a test in to get from one side of my home city of Cambridge to the other. The quickest route is via the A14 and M11 motorways, as the N60i correctly identified. To test the logic and speed of the 'back on track' feature that automatically recalculates your route if you miss a turn, i headed into the middle of town instead of taking the motorway around it. At the first roundabout I reached following the first missed turn the N60i told me to turn around. It recognised the missed turn with a couple of hundred meters and since it was a short journey was quick to recalculate the route. It repeated the process at the second missed turn, but at the third it took the very odd decision to re-route me through the middle of town.
This surprised me as there ample opportunities ahead to make a U-turn at any number of roundabouts. Had I followed the route suggested, the Navman would have routed me through a busy city center and the journey could have taken 3 times longer than necessary. Some may argue that missing two turns in a row is pretty stupid, but I would counter that in a busy city a timid driver, or someone not familiar with the area, could easily find themselves in such a position. The bottom line was that the test results didn't fill me with much confidence and I deducted half a star.
You can drag 'avoid zones' over any area on the map and the N60i will save these and avoid any roads that pass through them. Since the N60i does not allow you to specifically instruct it to avoid certain roads, and since the traffic module is a separate product, the avoid zone function is the only way of forcing the Navman avoid troublesome junctions or traffic jams that you have identified before starting off on your journey.
However, the N60i doesn't save a list of these avoid zones, so if you later want to delete them you have to manually drag the map around to find them (not always easy depending on how big the zone is). For this I deducted another half a star.
I very much like the layout of the map and the intelligent manner in which the N60i zooms the map scale as your speed decreases, making it very easy to cruise down a road and find a specific address on the map. At the bottom of the display is the text equivalent a running commentary of where you are (road name and, where available, house number) which also helps you identify where abouts you are on the route.
The voice commands are clear and well-timed, and the graphic representation of the next turn (or roundabout exit) is also nice and clear. Certainly, I have had no problems navigating and following the directions issued by the unit. A couple of useful views can be selected, and by tapping on the screen and pulling up a menu you can choose to view the entire route if you so wish.
There are one or two very frustrating limitations about the N60i's planning software. By default the N60i plans all journeys with your current location as the starting point, however despite there being a menu option that allows you to select anywhere on the map and chose 'start journey from here', I have been unable to get this to work - the device forces me to plan all my routes from my current location. Thus, when my girlfriend asked how she would get from her work place to another location, and how long it would take, the N60i should have allowed me to tell her, but since the 'start journey from here' function did not work I could not. This is a minor gripe for me, but for some people who do a lot of traveling and want to plan ahead, this could be an issue.
Finally, the mounting unit is excellent, as is the remote control. These were two items that the Amazon and Navman websites were vague about when I ordered the device. In fact, neither website actually lists the contents of the box, and even though I downloaded the N60i user manual from the Navman website before I bought the device, it still did not make it clear. For the record, the N60i comes with these two items plus a car charger, mains charger and a leather case. Software is also supplied.
In summary, I am pleased with my selection and would recommend the N60i to anyone who doesn't find the criticisms above to be completely off putting.
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