Navman 4410

Advantages FAST acquisition, good battery life, BlueTooth
Disadvantages Price

...The NavMan 4410 GPS kit is effectively two discrete things. Hardware and Software. For the sake of your very own eyes (and sanity) , dear reader, I have split my review into two to cater for this. This one covers the hardware, the neato BlueTooth GPS receiver and it's associated gubbins. The software is covered elsewhere (in the SmartST Pro Europe sub-heading). But be warned, it's a biggie. The NavMan GPS receiver is a fine piece of kit. Slightly bulkier than a mobile phone and made of a reasonably impact-resistant plastic, it has a tacky (as in sticky, not gaudily coloured) rubberised base to stop it sliding around and a single button on the top with which you switch it on/off. Able to run from 3 AAA batteries for an amazing 30 hours (under optimum conditions), it also comes with a Cigar lighter adapter for a more reliable power... Read review

Advantages good modes, adequate performance
Disadvantages Not the cheapest, or best specced, or the best

...Navman's GPS 4410 is a simple and effective in-car navigation system that works with Bluetooth-equipped Pocket PCs. To set up, you just install the software on a memory card, then configure your Bluetooth software to connect with the GPS receiver. The receiver lasts around four hours on battery and talks wirelessly with the PDA. The SmartST 2 software offers some notable improvements over its predecessor. The new first-person view map modes are great for town driving, and the software now integrates with Outlook to navigate automatically to friends or companies in your contact list. Routing accuracy and speed are unchanged from the previous version. It's fine on the whole, but some oddities are present. For one of our test routes, the software suggested we travelled through a town rather than along the motorway that offered both... Read review

Advantages Clear , turn-by-turn directions
Disadvantages Unreliable advice

...Satellite Navigation is both a blessing and a curse. It means you can drive places without needing a map. It also means that when you're driving places and you get lost, you don't have a map. "But how can you possibly get lost with SatNav?!?" I hear you cry... Well let me tell you a story. But first, you might want to treat yourself to a cup of tea. Or a toilet break. This is quite a long one. After much careful research, as is always my way with purchases of a gadgety nature, I finally placed an order for a spangly new NavMan 4410 Bluetooth GPS kit, to go with my brand-new iPaq 4150. The theory being that a cool, calm and collected voice guiding me through the english/european countryside would serve, in some tenuous fashion, as a marital aid. My wife not being much use at navigating. It would save the frustrations in the car... Read review