My sat nav is stupid. is yours smart ?

My sta nav is stupid.
Its a garmin 3790t . my day is not complete without my clarkson moment, looking at it long and slow- like its a petulent child and shouting quietly " you stupid machine".
Yes , i know ; I am a courier - the supreme onipresent being of rightous superior knowledge.   Sometimes i have a cold and look to it for reassuarnce.
 But you do have to ask, after 3 map upgrades, why i have to leave the M1 at hemel sliproad and rejoin a mile later.
There are other ways than Edgware road.   If i faster/quicker,  then why through a housing estate past a school ? (might be an essex thing).
And why oh why oh why does it crash and reboot 2.4 miles from destination.
Otherwise its great. But i hate it.
What can i replace it with ?

I run a version of tomtom on my windows phone which I swear by it sometimes goes the long way around but it rarely fails. unfortunatly tomtom are not producing a version for android so I tried copiolot  which is ok but sometimes loses it's self and if there are two roads running side by side it gets confused. as a result I'm still using my old windows phone as my personal phone and satnav and my android phone for business. I'm going to have to get a stand alone satnav so i can get up to date maps etc I'll definately be going for tomtom

My Garmin tends to go haywire in London when it's surrounded by high risers. I was stopped in a traffic lights queue a while back and after the woman that lives in the satnav told me she was 'recalculating' for the umpteenth time, I sort of lost it.

lol

i use the tom tom go live hd .. currently pay £50 a year but get 4 map updates a year live traffic info saved me many hours diverting round accidents etc speed cameras and map share plus various other bits of useless info like cheapest fuel in area and weather. the live google search function is handy for finding places aswell had this one since they came out got me all round europe with very few problems.. tried the google maps one on my htc its ok but find my tomtom much better 

I keep it simple I use a basic tomtom with european maps (apx £120) and listen to radio 2 for traffic problems never had a problem in Europe or UK.

I use a Tom Tom.  Two years ago I also brought a Garmin.

Two reasons:

1.  They are on different satillite systems, so when I loose a signal on one, in the City of London or other built up areas, usually the other is still active.

2.  The second one is for when I get lost with the first one.

Kind regards

Tony

You dont go outside west kingsdown let alone London mate :-) !!!!!!

I use Copilot Live HD Premium all the time now, it's the dog's wotsits. Homer stays in the glove compartment but I swear I must have left him on because I heard  'Are we there yet?' today.

CPLHD is on my Android Motorola Atrix by the way. The first phone for years I have wanted to keep when I'm due for renewal (but I'll get a new freebie and sell it on ebay)

I use a free app on my iPhone if needed at all it seems to be really

What about when you get a phone call Tigz do you loose the sat nav screen ? then go the wrong way ?

Na coz like I said barely need satnav mainly use it

If I get a call when using copilot then the in-call screen shows but goes back to the route when I finish the call. If I still need to see the route when talking then I just press the home key and then the copilot icon and it returns instantly. After six deliveries in London yesterday it proved just how much better it is than my tomtom!

Ptc what copilot do have I've heard about this but wasnt sure about paying out for something when I can get similar one for free, is it worth the price or not?

Definitely worth the £25 it cost. Take a look...

Tom Tom Go 1000 with HD Live Traffic, great piece of kit but you need common sense, it aint always right!