Thread: Which is your favourite Navigation System or Nav. phone application?

My first navigation was a TomTom Go 700. It did cost a fortune but I thought this technique would be the future.

Well, no. It served me well, but it turned out that map updates were a problem when TomTom decided to fade out my model. So I replaced it with a Becker Professional, including "lifetime updates". And again, I was frustrated, when Becker closed business just two years later and my "lifetime updates" were worth nothing.

I was "not amused"

The Becker app, that is needed to buy new maps don't even start up anymore. Before that it refused to recognize the attached device so it was of no use anyway. But then I found about an active community that built around those devices, keeping them Alife. So I learned that my "Becker" is just one flavor of "iGo" as others and that I can keep it updated through the back door. Every time I am able to refresh the map, I get a big grin in my face that I could again force my share of the promised "lifetime upgrades".

I still have no car with all those magic displays that make them look like the cockpit of a jumbo jet. No built-in navigation. So I hope to keep this little helper for some more time, even though I'm aware that dedicated, portable navigation devices are an anachronism in the age of smartphones and digital cockpits. I certainly will not buy another one.