Aguri CarGT520 DVR LIVE sat nav with built-in dash cam with full European mapping.

I bought this to replace my faithful Tomtom 520 Go which is still in working order, but Tom Tom are refusing to send any more traffic data for which I used to pay a subscription, unless I buy new model.The Aguri 520 in comparison has some things to like and lots of things to hate.First the good things. It combines satnav and dashcam in one neat package, so there's only one bit of kit to put on the dashboard and plug into the cigar lighter. The unit supports Wi-Fi so you can update the app and maps without needing a computer. The maps are European and updates are offered for life. It knows about traffic conditions if you connect it up via your phone or buy the unit with its own SIM card. It automatically dims the display at lighting-up time, a surprisingly useful feature. Both satnav and dashcam seem competently executed.Now the bad. The instruction manual is written in very small type and has no diagrams explaining how to assemble the bits and pieces in the box. It also covers every satnav in the range, so there are pages and pages of stuff which don't apply. Fortunately you can download it as a pdf, edit out the irrelevant pages, and then zoom it on an iPad to actually read it, but I don't think I should have needed to do this.The charging lead is shorter than the Tomtom's so if your cigar lighter is not conveniently located this might be a problem, though it does come with a 3M adhesive plate which you can put on the centre of the dashboard, which will give the camera an uninterrupted view, which is better than sticking the holder on the windscreen where the holder will obstruct part of the view. Unfortunately the adhesive proved entirely useless on my dashboard.The on-off button is exactly where you put your thumb to hold it in your hand while you operate the device to set it up. So if you have fat fingers and thumbs like mine it will take you several attempts because you will keep turning it off accidentally at the critical moment.The map display itself is clear but the typeface on the status display (ETA, time and distance to run) is dangerously small - you may find yourself squinting at it instead of looking at the road ahead. As for the status display along the top of the screen which shows battery level, wifi signal, time of day etc, forget it, that's in even smaller print than the instruction manual, and you will need a microscope. And that is with the typeface setting at maximum called "Very Big". It needs a setting called "absolutely ******* humongous" to get anywhere near being usable. The screen has the same real estate as my old Tom-tom 520 but it is much less efficiently and informatively laid out.Navigation is very fiddly to set up compared to the Tom-tom. Typeface and icons are very small and hostile to fat fingers. The device is very needy wanting several presses to confirm this, that and the other instead of just getting on with it. Even turning it off requires several accurate presses of the fingers unless you disconnect it from the power supply in which case it will turn itself off pretty sharpish unless you can intervene in time. It does not seem to run for very long on a fully charged battery anyway. In operation it can also throw you small print dialogue boxes which are very hard to read and require accurate pressing of the correct button.Traffic information is acquired via the Wi-Fi hotspot on your phone. With an iPhone this is fiddly because you have to prompt the iPhone and the satnav to connect up each time you turn it on. My old Tom-tom connected to the iPhone via Bluetooth automatically without fuss, although that was for hands-free telephony, a feature which most satnavs have dropped nowadays, more's the pity. (Arguably this is less good for safety because otherwise drivers are tempted to look at their phone if there is an incoming call - it would be better if designers were driven by evidence instead of lawyers!).Compared to the Tom-tom, traffic information implementation is nothing like as good; the Tom-tom shows traffic delays ahead of you on the screen and confirmation that you are connected to the traffic server. There is no such confirmation or feedback on the Aguri; instead another microscopically illegible dialogue box pops up, and you have to operate your fat finger to get it to re-calculate a route, and then choose the route it has recalculated. The Tom-tom simply advises you that there is a shorter route, tells you how much you will save and how much farther you will drive, and you simply tell it if you want to take that route, by voice if you wish.The Aguri has only one rather irritating voice to choose from (you choose whether she reads the road numbers or not). It is difficult to customise the warnings sensibly. It seems to know where every mobile speed trap has ever been seen, and unless you turn off those warnings, she will be nagging you incessantly. This is horrid because those places tend to be points of hazard and you want to be concentrating on the road, not listening to her going on and on. The Tom-tom by contrast can be customised to give you different beeps or tones according to the hazard ahead.So why haven't I sent it back? I have wanted a combined satnav-dashcam unit ever since a couple of wiseguys tried to set me up in a cash for crash manoeuvre which I was alert enough to avoid. I will try another adhesive pad and a hairdryer to get the mounting plate to stick. Anyway all of the Aguri's other deficiencies are resolvable by a software update some time in the future. if Aguri have the good sense to attend to it, and I am a hopeless optimist If they don't, I shall be back to Tomtom the moment they produce a combined unit like this.

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