Acer D100

The predeccer to the Acer D100 made many eat their hats as they produced a quite reputable PDA the N35 which more than did the job, now they are taking on the all in one GPS market with the latest Acer D100 SatNav system. At first when we got our unit for review we thought someone had sent us a TomTom Go by mistake, the same bulbous shape can hardly be a mistake, but as soon as you see the control on the front it's clear the D100 is different.Acer's other major decision is to use Destinator software on the D100, we have tested Destinator quite thoroughly in the past and so decided to concentrate the review on Acers implementation of the whole package. Start-up from cold left us sitting in the car park at work for almost 1 minute and 30 seconds before we got enough satellites using the inbuilt 12 channel receiver. Not bad we thought but not up to the performance of the few units using the latest SiRF StarIII chipset, the Acer D100 relies on the older II chipset (the same as the current TomTom go range).With the sat nav market extremely competitive, prices across the Acer range are expected to start dropping. The gambit was around the £200 mark, but in most places has fallen.