Buying a Sat Nav as a Gift

BUYING A SAT NAV AS A GIFTSo whats this article all about? Surely you simply buy a Sat Navand wrap it up and then leave it on your loved ones bed onChristmas Eve?Well, thats one way of doing it, but lets be a little more thoughtfulabout how to prepare it and give it. When you get the Sat Nav, allboxed and gleaming from Amazon, carefully get it out and checkeverything is there and nothings been damaged. It should havesome charge in the device, but carefully take it out and give it agood overnight charge; it may be a type that simply connects to aUSB computer port or you may have a Motorola type phonecharger that will charge it. See, thoughtful!Now for the fun part. Look through the manual so youll be able toteach your loved one how to use it and youll look like an expert assoon as its out of the box. You wont of course let on that youvealready sneakily scanned the instructions!Youll find out how to programme in destinations and how to namethem as well as store them as presets. Why not find out key placesand have them programmed in as a surprise? You could store thatrestaurant where you had your first romantic date? The holidayhome youd love to go back to. Any location where your recipientalways gets lost finding. Program them in, then shut the thingdown and pack it up very carefully as if it hasnt been touched!So how do you present your gift of a Sat Nav? Youd wrap it in anold road map of course! When youre asked why ruin a perfectlygood map, youd say that it would never be needed in the futureanyway!So what Sat Nav would you choose as a gift? It all depends on theperson, really. If you know itd only be used occasionally and onlyon local and regional roads, you wouldnt over spend on an allsinging all dancing model, and a Tom Tom Start would be perfectlyacceptable.If the person youre buying for has, however, a busy lifestyle thatsees them doing loads of travelling up and down the motorwaysand trunk roads, a Sat Nav with traffic news facility is essential.

These clever devices will tell you about jams up ahead way beforelocal radio will know about it, and sometimes even the police. TheSat Nav Heaven team are in love with the Navigon 8450 at themoment, as it has everything the professional driver needs and itlooks so cool with its brushed aluminium.This model and Garmins 3760T or the voice activated version theGarmin 3790T must be the best Sat Navs on the market today.However, even the best traffic systems wont tell you about thecongestion in local or rural areas, so only buy a traffic informationenabled device if you know the driver is a long hauler!Check out Sat Nav Heaven for more details of these devices tochoose from, and also our sister site which has loads of ideas forgifts that arent so technologically advanced!Thanks for reading this and good luck with finding that perfect SatNav gift!Peter BakerPeter Baker is a writer, journalist and health issues correspondent with abackground at BBC TV news, radio and ITV production.After writing a book about stress and set up the Practical Stressbusterswebsite, ( http://www.practicalstressbusters.com ) one of the spin-offs wasrecommending good satellite navigation systems for drivers to help reducestress. Peters now a trusted independent sat-nav consultant and he writesmany reviews on the http://www.satnavheaven.org site.He also writes on consumer affairs and is a contributor to the new gift findingsite, http://www.giftideafinder.co.uk

Buying a Sat Nav as a Gift

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