Road Angel Navigator 6000

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

This looks to be a useful device, combines GPS based camera warnings with satnav all for £250.

Road Angel Nav. 6000

What's the catch?

Answers on a postcard please  

[MVS]

Just a thought, but is the nav software as 'good' as say TomTom in the 'one'.

Also it's a bit more than a One and you can add the camera sites as POI warnings easily from several sites, (you don't have to pay TomTom's prices) cos you have to remember you have to pay blackspot after 6 months.

See here for database for £2 a month Camera database as POI's

[reaper]

ya dont get the laser detector with it. apart from that its a good system

[Buzz Billsberry]

Is there a facility to down load european maps & USA?

Ref lazer detectors get them bought now as they will be illegal within the next 2 months & will no longer be for  sale.GPS camera alerts etc will not be illegal though

PP

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Gentlemen, thank you all for your very useful feedback. I am doing this research on my son's behalf as he commutes long distances, his car is vital, and he naturally wants to avoid 'black spots' en route.  

MVS, thanks for that link. Am I correct in my understanding that although TomTom do NOT offer a camera database for the 'One' model, this site does? The major drawback in the One, as far as I could see, was that unlike the 510, it isn't a GPS based camera detector. If that can be rectified by the route you suggest, then it is a better bet if only because it can be used in Europe too.

Reaper. No, you're right it doesn't detect lasers but the received wisdom is that laser detectors don't react quickly enough to save your licence but they do they tell you a NIP is on its way. Jammers though.....  

Pirelli Pete. No, the Road Angel Navigator 6000 (unlike the model simply called Navigator at twice the price) does not offer Euro functionality - a big drawback.

[MVS]

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MVS, thanks for that link. Am I correct in my understanding that although TomTom do NOT offer a camera database for the 'One' model, this site does? The major drawback in the One, as far as I could see, was that unlike the 510, it isn't a GPS based camera detector. If that can be rectified by the route you suggest, then it is a better bet if only because it can be used in Europe too.

1- TomTom DO offer an add on software download for any of their units including the One which includes an updated camera database. It's on their site under Plus services if I remember correctly, but it is dam expensive.

2- TomTom units allow downloads to their units of Points Of Interest POI's. There are some on the units when you get them, you just tell it which ones you want alerting to (eg. hotels services etc).

The site I linked to has a regularly updated camera database in the format that TomTom use for these POI's, so all you do is, register pay £2 a month and you can download the database as many times as you want. You use your PC to dump it onto the TomTom and then enable the POI warnings for the relavant cameras you want (ie maybe not Traffic light red light jump ones), and how far in advance you want warning, say 200m.

It isn't foolproof as if you pass a camera within say 200m on a side road you will be warned, but it shows you where it is on the scrolling map.

Your TomTom with this or any other POI database would give you exaclty the same functionality as the Road angel one. Aslo the ability to use european maps ( If the road angel wont).

As for GPS camera detectors. They all work in this way, some form of GPS positioning sensor/software engine that alerts to a databased location, so only as good as how often you update it. Whether it is a dedicated unit as an origional Road angel, a sat nav system with a graphics map and POI's added, or this 'all in one Road angel navigator. Just different boxes to look at.

[Martin Keene]

Ref lazer detectors get them bought now as they will be illegal within the next 2 months & will no longer be for sale.

I'm not sure if that is still true or not, the Road Traffic bill that was rolled up in was quitely dropped several months ago.

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

Excellent MVS, thanks a lot.

[Buzz Billsberry]

Ref lazer detectors get them bought now as they will be illegal within the next 2 months & will no longer be for sale.

I'm not sure if that is still true or not, the Road Traffic bill that was rolled up in was quitely dropped several months ago.

Martin it was from a recent artical on PH and usually they don't miss the boat with stuff like this...but I suppose the govt tend to put a pubic info film out if things are gonna happen ...don't they?

[Man On The Clapham Omnibus]

I believe it was abandoned in the run-up to the last General Election due to time constraints in Parliament and the plan was to roll it out again afterwards. Dunno if that's happening though.

[Buzz Billsberry]

Just out of interest I'm looking at buying something like Tom Tom as long as its got full postcode and abitilty to us it abroad and psooibilty to have the lazer detector thats all I need or is there anothe peice of kit that I should have that I've missed off?

Any recomendations?

Buzz

[peterg]

Buzz, forget the laser detector as you'll never be warned early enough (IMHO) apart from TomTom the only satnav that seems to fit the bill and is well backed in terms of tech support is the Garmin Nuvi (360 seems well liked especially)

all the best prices/deals can be found here including complete spec lists for comparison - well TomTom are anyway, I guess you'll have to look on the Garmin site for their models....

[MVS]

Garmin Nuvi is very nice and the site I linked to has the camere database in their format also.

The Nuvi is small cute and very much top pocketable, but was a bit more expensive than the TT One, otherwise I would have had one!

The other way to go is a PDA with TomTom software and use an origional Road Angel detector (with or without Laser) to provide the GPS, you then need a link lead from Holux to transfer GPS data to the PDA.

This is messy but guves you everything sat-nav/cameras/laser & a PDA to boot. This could also be a PDA phone and you could have 3G internet and e-mail aswell if you feel flush

[steve_m]

I didn't realise the price of sat nav had dropped quite so low.

Is there anything to look out for to specifically avoid ?  Is there any reason why, for example, one is so much cheaper than another ?

[MVS]

Is there anything to look out for to specifically avoid ?  Is there any reason why, for example, one is so much cheaper than another ?

It's that old chestnut, Why is a Caterham so much more than a Wessy    

Edited to say that TomTom do appear to no longer offer the Speed camera (sorry safety cam) database for anything but the current expensive GO models and not the ONE. Anyway Pocket GPS world's works on all so TomTom are only losing custom anyway!