C. N. Harrison

Superb DAB Clock Radio, 8 Jan 2010

First thing to note about this unit is the great sound quality especially with spoken word and moreover given that this is just, essentially an alarm clock, its almost (but not quite) as good as my Pure Evoke. No more tinny, crackling screetch in the mornings for me. Many things, however, have been written about the sound quality of these units and I think if your after an out an out music pod dock then this probably isn't going to meet your needs. This is not in the same league as say a B&W Zeppelin or a Fatman Itube (both amazing).

The alarm settings are simple to use and navigate - quite amazingly you can have an alarm for the weekends and one for weekdays.

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The Making of Satmap, 14 July 2009

The standout feature of the satmap is its ability to give you your position on the wonderful O.S landranger (1:50000) and Explorer (1:25000)series mapping. O.S mapping is amongst, if not the, greatest map series in the world. The regional series for satmap in particular are of great value due to the fact that you may not need the whole of GB and need regions outside of the three "halves". I have SE, SW England and NW scotland.

Not worth the money!, 13 July 2009

I was incredabley excited about this product on its launch and although the initial outlay of £350 seemed quite a lot (it is a lot) I treat myself to the unit and several mapping cards. The premise of a gps with ordinance survey mapping to which you can upload routes (in the gpx format) and dowload route data from trips was exactly what I wanted.

The Reality has proved otherwise.

The unit really isn't reliable enough and I experienced software crashes at some very annoying times, from which the unit would not switch back on for some hours.

For this reason I returned the item without wishing to have a replacement on the single premise that:

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