You're in the market and about to fork out some serious reddies for a sat nav, so...
Checking out a best GPS review guide of some description before parting company with your cash is the smart thing to do but before you dive in...
know that buying a GPS unit will be much easier if you thoroughly understand the various features and options that your nav comes with.
After all, why pay through the nose for a unit only to end up with a load of features you're never going to use if all you want is a basic no frills work horse that'll just get you from A to B without too much fuss?
So if you don't know your POIs from your Channels or your GPS from your RDS or even your Bluetooth from your back teeth, don't worry!
Our series of articles; Portable GPS Sat Navs: Features And Specs Demystified will get you the quickie knowledgeable you need before you go diving into any best GPS review info!
Introduction
Satellite navigation is dead simple in principle. Your sat nav unit receives information from satellites orbiting 11 000 mile above Earth. It figures out exactly...
Satellite Navigation - A brief History
Hate to have to do it to you but a bit of historywill help explain some of the sat nav terminology you may come across… like Sat Nav, GPS, GNSSandNAVSTAR...
Sat Nav: Basic Features -Part1
As mentioned earlier at this moment in time, all sat navs get their guidance from the same Navstar/ GNSS system....don't think that because you fork out top money...
Sat Nav: Basic Features - Part2
Points Of Interest (POI) A great feature in general, for holidays in particular and well worth paying extra for...
RDS TMC - Traffic Messaging And Avoidance
RDS-TMC (Radio Data System-Traffic Messaging Channel) is simply road traffic information sent over FM radio…