N520 purchased without Navigon - but now require navigation

[jack_d_1892]

Hi,

I have an N520 that was supplied without the Navigon MobileNavigator 5 - however now I require navigation functionality. The unit is standard configuration, with 64MB RAM system memory (RAM) and 128MB ROM Flash memory.

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to upgrade this unit so I can find my way around the UK?

e.g. purchase Navigon 5 or 6, or other software such as TomTom.
Will I need to purchase additonal memory cards, etc.

Thanks.

[royscheper]

There are many different Navigation systems, i've got Igo 2006 running om my N560.

You can buy TomTom with a SD card, but also without SD and then are the maps on cd/dvd. Which you can install on a sd card.

I tried to run Navigon 6, but its incredible slow on the N560, don't know why.. But I've de-installed it..

Running Igo perfectly fast..

Not yet tried TomTom, but maybe thats the best choice..

[jack_d_1892]

There are many different Navigation systems, i've got Igo 2006 running om my N560.

You can buy TomTom with a SD card, but also without SD and then are the maps on cd/dvd. Which you can install on a sd card.

I tried to run Navigon 6, but its incredible slow on the N560, don't know why.. But I've de-installed it..

Running Igo perfectly fast..

Not yet tried TomTom, but maybe thats the best choice..

Thanks for the input Roy.

I'll avoid Navigon 6 on my slower N520 and investigate Igo 2006 (which I've not heard off) and TomTom Navigator 6.

[royscheper]

Well, thats my idea, that Navigon 6 is slow, some people get it running normally on a slower pda..
Don't get it, but somehow is my 624mhz slower then some 300mhz pda's..

I live in the Netherlands, Igo is available there, but I don't know about the rest of the world..

But I guess the best for you is TomTom Navigator 6, simple but very effective..

Goodluck with it!!

[0041]

I have installed the AA Navigator bought on the SD card, which works fine, once you get the settings right !! (com port 5 9600). This uses the Navigon maps so upgrades are available

[sjdigital]

I bought my N520 specifically for the Navigon GPS as it had the best maps of eastern Europe. I upgraded to Navigon MN|6 at a cost of £69/€100 to get even better maps of eastern Europe and found it very sluggish but there is a free patch/upgrade to MN|6.1 that greatly improves things. I find it works just fine now.

The cost of MN|6 as a download is£89 and you then need to buy a 2GB SD card which costs about fifteen quid from Amazon. I find the regular SanDisk card with the programme installed on the card and not in system memory is the best - much quicker to boot up than when installed in memory or when on a faster Ultra II card!

[_Neil_]

Althoug I have not tested it with the N520, my navigation software of choice would be TomTom - I used TomTom5 on my LOOX 720, and use it currently on my T830. It's not cheap, but, I've been very impressed with it.

[sjdigital]

Perhaps my expectations aren't very high but I don't want endless options for points of interest, speed cameras, etc. All I want from navigation software is for it to get me to my destination. And I have been perfectly satisfied with the Navigon system as it does exactly that and in more countries than any system using Tele Atlas maps. Last year it guided me from Slovenia to the front door of my hotel in Frankfurt, and onwards to Calais and the new maps now cover all of the Balkans and eastern Europe. I don't need anything more. And at the much lower prices than last year it's great value.

But of course YMMV!

[movieman36]

I use Navigon 5 software on the N 520 (Haven't yet decided to upgrade to 6) and it work really well. Not slow at all. If I take a wrong turn in usually updates with a re-route by the time I've travelled a couple of hundred metres at most. The voice instructions are clear. The two points I find frustrating is it only supports 5 digit post codes and every now and again if I wake the PDA (rather than a fresh boot) it can't find the maps. A reboot sorts that out every time.

[sjdigital]

I would agree that MN|5 works just fine but MN|6.1 is probably a bit more responsive - the slowness I experience is in initial start up of the programme but once running it works very well. I'm very pleased with it but I wouldn't see any real benefit to the upgrade to MN|6.1 if only using it in the UK - it's the additional eastern European maps that swung it for me and made it a no brainer upgrade.