Navman N40i (GPS receiver)

Pros: The basic navigation function is quite good. Camera is poor quality, but still useful for recording where you have been with GPS co-ords stored in the EXIF data.

Cons: POI functions are next to useless. It would be nice to be able to put in your own POIs to replace the built in POIs, but they seem hard coded.

Summary: If you want to get somewhere, it will show you how to get there. That works well.

Other functions, particularly the POIs, are quite poor and seem like a gimmick. You should be able to totally re-organise POIs your own way.

You can set it to display POIs as you drive along (so, for example, you can see where parks or train stations are) but the icons are all blue and look the same, so it's a useless *******.

The camera is poor, not because it's a low megapixel count, but because it blows even the slighest highlight. Set it to -1 on the brightness setting helps. But because it creates jpegs with the GPS co-ords in the EXIF data, I have a record of where I've been and a picture for reference, and that's all I wanted.


The touchscreen works well. Entering addresses is easy enough, but a proper qwerty keyboard option would be nice (it uses alphabetical order keys).

Overal, I'm quite happy, though I think, like a lot of gadgets, there is a lot of potential here let down by dodgy software. The basic functions work, though, so it gets and 8.