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NDrive G800 review

£299 inc VAT

Manufacturer: NDrive

Our Rating: We rate this 4 out of 5

By | 05 June 08

NDrive promotes its NDrive G800 satnav as the next step for navigation - and it certainly has potential.

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NDrive promotes its NDrive G800 satnav as the next step for navigation - and it certainly has potential.

The NDrive G800's rubberised matte black casing is attractive, its 4.3in touchscreen generous (again, if now rather standard) and a well-placed stylus makes using the software keyboard a cinch. It follows, then, that the NDrive's car cradle and mount are sturdy, well designed and unobstructive.

Neither could we fault the NDrive G800 on the road: instruction was given in plenty of time by the very helpful Mary - who was more than capable of quickly recalculating our route as we duly ignored her. We were able to navigate to our home address, chosen POI, recent or favourite location - and set our own speed limit in doing so. (The NDrive isn't capable of altering UK law for our driving pleasure, of course, but it will sound an alarm as you exceed a chosen speed - the maximum of which is, ahem, 100MPH.)

We were also pleased with how quickly the NDrive G800 picked up a satellite, even from a cold start or indoors.

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4.3in QVGA 480x272-pixel touchscreen
372MHz Centrality Atlas-III processor
64MB SDRAM
8GB SDHC Card with photo-based UK TeleAtlas maps
FM transmitter
Bluetooth hands-free calls
video (WMV, AVI, ASF) and picture (Jpeg, GIF, BMP, PNG) viewer
music player (MP3, WMA9, WAV)
games
e-book reader
POIs
stylus
car charger and mount kit
3.5mm stereo jack
integrated speaker
USB 2.0
121x83x20mm
210g
  • Build Quality: We give this item 8 of 10 for build quality
  • Features: We give this item 8 of 10 for features
  • Value for Money: We give this item 8 of 10 for value for money
  • Overall: We give this item 8 of 10 overall

The main pull of the NDrive G800 is its photo-based navigation - excellent, if you're a bird. Given that this one stand-out feature isn't country-wide, we found little to recommend the G800 as anything other than a standard, yet highly user-friendly, satnav that comes at a high-end price. However, if you're quick you can snap it up for an introductory price of just £199 from inkino.co.uk.

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