Adieu to my Nuvi 660 satnav. Now for a Tablet

[PG]

After 12 years of brilliant use its time to change out my Garmin Nuvi 660.
The change has been bought about by my eye sight getting a little worse over 12 years and technology because the Garmin has a maximum map size of 2Gb which used to cover the whole of Europe and now I'm lucky if I get the UK and a part of France.

I have been spoilt by my Nuvi 660; it could get me from A to B via C, tell me about speed cameras, allow me to go hands free via bluetooth and, play MP3 music files which would mute when a route direction was announced.

The last facility seems to have disappeared from all modern sat navs except those aimed at motorcycles or hiking. So that has led me down the route of tablets.

I have already done research to decide on a good size, price range and the different types of GPS satellites.

Does anyone have experience of using a tablet with satnav particularly to play music and have the music mute when directions are given and also mounting on a campervan dashboard.

 

[claude et maude]

I have an iPad Mini with Copilot as satnav app, I have it fixed into CD slot on the dash stereo using one of these…

I haven’t looked at music muting yet.

 

[PG]

Thanks for that. This won't work for me though because I don't have a CD player.

 

[PG]

In case anyone is interested I have done a little work.

The tablet will be android like my phone so I installed different sat nav apps on my phone to test things out before buying anything.
I found that the best satnav app so far was the paid app from tomtom as it gave plenty of aural support as well as visual support and you could download full country maps meaning no mobile data usage was required (important when roaming is coming back in Europe).
I also had a music player app on my phone.
By selecting the "output channel stream" to alarm in the tomtom app and by enabling the "pause music on request from an app" on the music player I was able to get the music to pause while directions were being read out.


I am still looking into a tablet holder.