Navman S90i
22 OCT 2007
Launch price
£300.00
Stuff says
Smart, clever and capable. A couple of imperfections keep it off the top spot, and we might be tempted by the camera-less S70, but it's a fine choice
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Navman is one of the sat-nav big players, sitting happily up with Garmin and TomTom. Happily enough, that is, unless they were able to climb a couple more branches and rule the roost.
Enter the S-series, of which this S90i is the flagship. The whole user experience from packaging to design to menus has been tweaked and refined. There are three others in the range: the S30 with a 3.5in screen, then the UK map S50 and Europe map S70, both with 4.3in screens.
Sat-nav-by-photo
The S90i also has a 4.3in screen, but adds a 2MP camera for use with Navman's NavPix feature. This aligns photos with locations, to make it easier to navigate to them.
All the Navman's are compatible with NavPix, even if they don't have a camera built-in, and Navman users can share NavPix with each other or download 11,000 of them from an online library. It's useful enough, but does anybody actually use it after the novelty has worn off? Let us know.
There's more to the S90i than NavPix. Its new menus are straightforward, and address entry easy. The device says every letter or number as you enter it in a manner reminiscent of Speak & Spell.