Road Angel Navigator 6000 Review

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Twigg1975's review of Road Angel Navigator 6000

“I chose the Road Angel Navigator 6000 because of the...”

★★☆☆☆

written by Twigg1975 on 13/03/2008

Good Points
Simple GUI. Camera Locations. Still works after a good bath in coke.

Bad Points
Not the best looking screen maps. Slow start-up. Doesn't always give the best route. Tells you to go round roundabouts anti-clockwise....... Screen can be quite slow to update as you drive.

General Comments
I chose the Road Angel Navigator 6000 because of the speed camera locations after getting 3 points from one of the things. If you were to use this purely for this purpose it is very good, bat as a sat nav, it is not. It has many peculiar irregularities.
It tries to make you do illegal U-Turns on dual carriageways.
I have had some very interesting journeys down farm tracks.
It seems to think that some roundabouts should be driven anti-clockwise.
It misses T-Junctions. This is alright if you know the road, but if your were to follow it blindly, you could pull out into a junction without knowing. The same works in reverse of the same route; you need to turn left but it says nothing.
You are driving down a straight road and it will turn you to turn left to carry on along the road you are on.
It tells you to get off the motorway only to then rejoin at the same junction.
If you deviate off the route it tells you, it will make you do a huge detour to get back to where it wants you, adding at times 30 mins onto a journey which takes 20 mins from start to finish, instead of just recalculating the new most direct route.
When driving down a motorway, if you pass over a road with a speed camera, it will give you a warning and display the speed you should be going (I was once driving behind someone else who had an RA Nav 6000 when this happened to them. They went from 80mph to 30mph very quickly and almost caused a huge accident on the M6).
Tiff Needles voice can be very annoying......
Overall, I wish I had never got this and chosen a Tom Tom instead and paid for the camera upgrade. I still use mine on a daily basis for the journey I do every single day in the hope that one day it will learn that my route is best. And it is useful when you don't know where you are.

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