Medion GoPal PNA250 / MD 96800

Very easy to use, takes a minute or so to find the signal, but once up and routed, the visual and voice directions are excellent I also like the 2D or 3D display option.

The POI Warner Safety camera subscription is worth every penny and runs seamlessly on this unit.

Would certainly buy another Medion

Great Tool picks up sat right away no hanging about like on some sat navs. Software updates should be made avalible more easily. But apart from that I can't find anything to say bad about about it

I think that over all the Medion GoPal was very a very good sat nav, had easy to use controls and the fact that the screen was so easy to read and to use just made up the marks for me this is why I gave it a 10/10. I have had a few satalite navigation system now and all of witch have been made by Medion. I hear that the Tom Toms are very good but I will not leave Medion as i think that this is the best brand out there for the quality of their products. I hope that anyone who buys one will be very happy with it in the same way that I am. I also fins that the stand that it suts on in the car is veryuse full and unlike the old ones it dose not leave such a visable suction mark on the window as the others have done in the past. I think that this is a big bonus point as sat nav theft is very high now esspecially in the big cities.

The Medion Sat Nav system has poor colour and the comments could be made more clearer. The bear left could be confused with turn left

Though to be fair this could also be directed at the councils road signs.

The Medion PNA 250 is my first sat nav, but I took some time researching the market before getting this. One of the major points for sat nav is avoiding jams & this can achieve this with the addition of a TMC module, which is much better than the GPRS alternative used by some systems.

The unit comes with V5.1 navigon software using TeleAtlas maps (street level UK & major routes Europe included), the routing works v well & re-routing is also v good, it makes no complaints when you divert from planned route, just instantly works out the new route. Speech is clear and very polite.

The user interface is a little muddled & takes some time to get used to, you can get to some functions only if you do things in just the right order!, it helps little that the manual is badly written, refers to non existent functions & makes no mention of some that do, I see no excuse for this when it is provided in PDF format. Destination entry is by 5 digit post code &/or street names so could be improved, especially annoying is that you have to put a space after the 4th post code digit before giving the last which means 2 page flips!. There are POI`s but you cannot modify or add any which is rather frustrating (cannot add speed camera database).

The processor is a 266MHz one and is a little slow for some functions, mainly data input where it can often miss keyboard entries. However the GPS receiver is very good, I think a 12 channel unit & very sensitive.

Unusually it comes with both car & cycle mounts & 2 different cases. There is a mp3 player but you can turn it into a full portable pc by adding showtaskbar.exe into WindowsStartup.

Overall a well made unit that works well but could be even better when the software gets updated.