Cheap sat nav

[John de Manche]

An advert for a motorhome sat nav came up on my Facebook. It is a 7", 256 ram device with British and Irish campsites. Also French and Spanish campsites and Aires. All this for £80. This seems very cheap to me. The company is CM navigation and their website is cmnav.co.uk. As a self confessed technophobe I wondered if any funsters think this is too good to be true.

 

[ShaKen]

I see it runs on Windows CE 6 operating system which was released 10 years ago and went out of extended support in 2018.

Of course, it could still be a good product, but I’d doubt it would be feature rich.

 

[Gellyneck]

As ShaKen says looks like fairly old tech.
800MHz processor, 800x480pixel screen, only up to 32Gb SD card, etc.............
What mapping is used? Is it "pirated"?
Maybe I'm missing it but don't see a postal address on their website (which I think is a legal requirement in UK). Where are they located?
Don't think English is the website writers first language (but much better than a lot I've seen).

 

[Treeeev]

It looks like a re-badged Xgody 886. The Xgody’s are available for about half that price. There is a Facebook group (Nozatec Truck Sat Nav Users UK) which provides support for these units and map updates. I believe that there are newer android based Xgody’s available now.

I have been using an Xgody 886 for about three years now and find it fine. Van dimensions can be input. The interface is a little clunky and maybe not as intuitive as some others but it is considerably cheaper

Regards

Trevor

 

[John de Manche]

Thank you guys for your replies. I think I will give it a miss,but will look up the Xgodys.

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