I have a Fortuna Gps, but not that one, the model I have is:
I would recommend it to anyone looking for an in-car GPS. It has a built in LiION battery (one from a Nokia phone so spares are easy to find), bluetooth and a choic eof two chipsets SiRF and XTRAC in the same unit. Select SiRF for fast updates when driving down the autobahn, XTRAC for the tricky bits with a weak signal (in a forest, tall buildings, Alpine valleys).
The accessories that came with it were good as well, a beltclip, mains, USB and car chargers that will power a PDA as well as the GPS unit and a magnetic mount for use in the car. It also has a gippy rubber base so I can simply stand it on the dash board and it doesn't slide around. I've only had it leave the dash once and that was when I had to swerve rather more violently than I would have liked to avoid some prat who pulled out in front of me when I was just a few feet away from his car.
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The bundle is £40 more than the wired bundle that you mention but when you consider the cost of a mains-car-USB charger then it looks like a good deal.
I don't carry the HP iPaq charger around anymore because the Fortuna unit is so good. I can even charge the GPS-PDA from the USB socket on my laptop.
Good points with the PrymeNav software: The package includes a good range of maps. I've not had a lockup or other software problem despite having driven all the way across Europe using it. It gives clear voice prompts. You get two versions of the software in the same pack, one for the PDA one for Windows.
Bad points: The maps are large - you need a 2Gb card to store all of them for Europe. I did get away with UK only version on a 256Mb SD card, but I was really glad when the cost of 2Gb cards came down to something sensible. Now I have maps of the UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Italy on the PDA with two movies and four CDs. That works as both navigation and entertainment centre. I've also once had a problem with navigation in the wilds of Hampshire it tried to take me down a private road, much to my surprise and the anger of a farmer who saw the funny side of it when I explained. It also doesn't have as good a sets of POIs as I would like (about as good as Autoroute, which IMO sucks) nor can you get things like LPG station overlays or POI updates on the web. Also it doesn't do postcode searches, but it's routing features are otherwise excellent, it even finds partial matches easily which helped me a lot in Italy where people tend to refer to Paolotti.)
-- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
