Update your MEDION GoPal sat nav today! The MEDION GoPal Assistant helps you to easily update your MEDION GoPal navigation system and to add new features. Over the integrated MEDION GoPal Assistant Store you may quickly and easily purchase new or up-to-date content for your sat nav. Dec 2, 2013 - First of all, you need to download and install the Medion GoPal Assistant on. The software and connect the Medion navigation device to your PC.
Have this unopened product in my hand but afraid to go for it as I rarely buy on impulse. Can anyone give me any advice on the Medion MD 96240 Medion p4210 (WHATEVER THAT ALL MEANS?) This is the link to the info. Is it worth the money or am I buying a pig in a poke. Aldi will refund I can take it back. I am a complete novice on satnavs.
We want to use it in Europe. Advice and observations greatly received. Chris Posted: 30 May 2007 3:01 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 A posting machine Posts: 349.
The disclaimer - I don't know this brand but. The map software is NAVTEQ which is used in many sat navs and also in PC mapping software. The company Medion has a website - Have a look at this and see what you think. If ALDI are willing to refund even if you open the box then I would suggest that you open the box and see what manuals etc are there. AT the price it is possible that the unit has a slower processor than the premier name sat navs but all that means is that it takes a little longer to find satellites and start the route but would not be any slower after that. Posted: 30 May 2007 3:12 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav.
Aldi £199 Epic contributor Posts: 1306 Location: Mendip, 2014 Autocruise Accent. Derek500 - 2007-05-30 3:12 PM I would try and find out what format the POIs are in, so that it would be easy to 'add' your own e.g. Campsites, aires etc. I have read that with some, like the pre-installed satnav in the Swift MHs, you are unable to do this, which in my opinion makes them pretty useless for a MHer.
Quite right Derek. The one you are referring to even has the out of date restrictive 5 digit post code facility. Posted: 30 May 2007 3:48 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Pillar of the forums Posts: 703 Location: South Wales. Dethleff Esprit 6810/6811. Chris, please don't take this the wrong way but why have you bought it?
You don't appear to need it and the thought of gadgets appear to concern you. There seems lots of 'no idea', 'what does this mean', 'dont understand' etc. I'm wondering why you shelled out £200 on something you appear to not want or understand? As I say, please don't take it the wrong way but I'm curious as to why you bought something you know nothing about and don't understand what you've bought.
There should be enough expertise on this list to get you going but it looks like a bumpy trip? 656 Posted: 30 May 2007 4:13 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Chris - 2007-05-30 4:24 PM Way2go Just letting you know that I am not the person asking questions on www.pocketgpsworld.com I never though it was Chris. We'll try and help all we can. Before you jump in the car it's best to get it out the box and start playing with it. Firstly BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING - BACKUP the SD card so you can always go back to your 'factory settings' in the future.
Then start forming a list of things you don't understand and post them here. We'll then try to answer them for you. I've never seen your device so the routes to do anything may seem strange to you and not available on your device. But, to try it out, click Navigate To, POI, petrol station (then pick one close by). Now jump in the car and go to your selected POI. Incidentally, you might find setting your device to your home address helpful but please select a 'general' point close by but not outside your front door. The best bet is to drive to the end of your road and hit Select Home, followed by the actual place where the signal is showing you.
It all sounds a bit vague so your gonna have to help out a bit here by using the instructions and applying them to your actual menus. Way2Go Edited by Way2Go 2007-05-30 4:43 PM Posted: 30 May 2007 7:08 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav.
Aldi £199 Pillar of the forums Posts: 703 Location: South Wales. Dethleff Esprit 6810/6811.
Chris - 2007-05-30 8:08 PM No going back now then. It's out of the box and charging up. Will sit down quietly later on to work through it all. Thanks everyone. Hope I won't have to be back with any more questions.
Chris Don't bank on it, I have just printed out the manual for the new software on our Mio so that I can try to understand it better. 84 Pages, but luckily I found the button on the printer that puts 2 pages on one A4 sheet.
Just got to read through at my leisure!!!!!!!!! Sylvia Posted: 30 May 2007 9:08 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Forum master Posts: 3257 Location: Shropshire. Motorhome= 1996 home converted Iveco. Hi all, I purchased one of these Medion sat-navs on Sunday last.
It does everything it should. The maps are stored on the 1gb internal memory.
There was a copy of the maps on the removeable SD card. It will still work with seamless European street maps without the card. There is a thread about it all on Pocketgpsworld.com forum, you can read it all there. There is nothing to compare with it at the price. It even plays MP3's and there is a photo viewer for jpg. Files which you can copy to the SD card from your computer. Instructions are a little thin.
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Good luck Bob Posted: 31 May 2007 3:14 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Can I just clarify a couple of things here? The new Western Europe map (v6.75) sold by TomTom has been 'tweaked' so that it will fit on to a 1GB SD card and has therefore lost some of the finer detail and is therefore inferior to the previous version. However, the new Western and Central Europe map (v6.75) sold by TomTom is 1.67GB and has better detail than the Western Europe map above so is a better choice. The Great Britain and NI map (v6.75) has GB and NI as you'd expect but also appears to have good coverage of Southern Ireland.
The map only takes up 246MB. Edited by Way2Go 2007-05-31 6:38 PM Posted: 31 May 2007 7:46 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Having a look around Posts: 25. Hi Mel E I have just checked and find as you say, that not all Europe is on the internal memory. GB, Northern and Southern Ireland, France Belgium, Holland and Germany are internal.
The rest of Europe is loaded seamlessly from the data card. I have been using Autoroute 2006 on a small PC with a GPS receiver for2 years now. The detail is equal to Autoroute.
I have just checked a tiny hamlet we visit (La Sauvetee, Near Saintes, France.) It has the same detail with exactlly the same side roads, only visible on large scale local maps. Venice looks the same too. We are about to embark on a tour of Europe. I will report back. Bob Posted: 1 June 2007 8:11 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Epic contributor Posts: 1023 Location: South Berkshire.
I use Autoroute for sat nav on my laptop. The boss said when she saw the Medion one in Aldi Ohh thats good £200 thats the equvilant to 4 speeding fines (she has just been caught after 40 odd years of driving) lets get one. It gives Camera warnings and tells you when you exceed the speed limit, which is not on Autoroute. It seems to work very well we have used it a few times. I have also planned several routes in Europe to street level and it came up with the goods. It did give me a rather funny shortcut from Berkshire to the East coast, but knowing the road very well ignored it. We are happy with it.
David Posted: 1 June 2007 8:31 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Epic contributor Posts: 1306 Location: Mendip, 2014 Autocruise Accent. I have been waiting for 2 months now, to buy the GoPal 465 (the one up from the Aldi one). It has been sold out from the medionshop ever since the first batch hit the UK. I finally gave up waiting and bought a Nuvi 250 for our trip to Bordeaux last week. It is a no-frills satnav, on a par with the TomTom One Europe, except that it has road level eastern europe maps also. The only time it got confused was when we turned it on one morning from our parking space in a Bordeaux vineyard.
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Poor Matilda (our satnav), she took a few moments to figure things out! On paper, after the research I did into the GoPal 465, the one mentioned in this thread from Aldi (the 460) sounds like a great deal. Personally, I wouldn't hesitate, unless you want the 465 with 2 gig memory, seemless full east and west european mapping, free traffic update license for life. Posted: 3 June 2007 7:07 PM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Pillar of the forums Posts: 703 Location: South Wales.
Dethleff Esprit 6810/6811. Well everyone it's out of the box and we have just covered over 400 miles from South Wales, Stratford (for a solar panel fitting), Machynlleth to Newquay (West Wales) and back to South Wales. Best thing is it does warn you about fixed speedcameras and when we were over the limit a voice told us to 'pleae keep to the speed limit' which was really good. Some of the routes it sent us on we declined as we thought they were not suitable for the van but we could have used them after all.
When in mid Wales there was no way we would use some of the roads it was sending us on in our van so as with all Satnavs you have to use your discretion. Would have been great in a car.
Voice was clear and easy to listen to and amazing to hear the street names called out. Petrol stations all indicated. Not used the traffic management yet so will look into that and need to look into POIs (which I have now found out means places of interest for all the other novices like me) It can be used as soon as you have charged it up so that was what we did. I will now study the disc that came with it for more information. We survived and it also corrected the route if we went wrong so not a bad first test run. Thanks for the info and will get back to you when getting more advanced Chris Posted: 27 June 2007 7:38 AM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Pillar of the forums Posts: 703 Location: South Wales.
Dethleff Esprit 6810/6811. Way2go and all users of this satnav? Do I need to buy the 2gb card as the one with this product is 1gb. Synching maps from gopal assistant runs out of memory after only part of France covered. Are these maps already on the system and what am I downloading? What am I doing when synchronising? How do I enter co-ordinates?
Can I download aires in France for this model from somewhere etc Camperstop doesn't seem to include this model. If you look at co-ordinates in the camperstop book how do I type them in? Does the 'degree' symbol have to go in? This model does not seem to be able to enter journey for anything other than car, bike, pedestrian. Can this be changed to hgv etc? Should I buy a better aerial called an 'external gps antenna' or is the one with it sufficient.
Not had any TMC messages and need a simple lesson on this. Any ideas of good websites to teach me.
Does the radio have to be on? Do I have to tune it into a TMC station all the time or listen to another station.
Does it work if a cd is on? Can use the satnav for its function and it warns us of all speed cameras and when we are braking the speed limit so can use it everyday now but want to know and prepare for Europe mainly France in 3 weeks time so that I don't miss out on anything. Thanks in advance everyone. I am on a learning curve and struggle with terminology and understanding of new gadgets.
I am not dull just not electronic and have loads to do at work so need simple instructions. I have no pre-knowledge of satnav abreviations and terminology. Chris Posted: 27 June 2007 7:40 AM Subject: RE: Medion gopal sat nav. Aldi £199 Pillar of the forums Posts: 703 Location: South Wales.
Dethleff Esprit 6810/6811. Chris - 2007-06-27 7:38 AM Way2go and all users of this satnav? Do I need to buy the 2gb card as the one with this product is 1gb. Synching maps from gopal assistant runs out of memory after only part of France covered. Are these maps already on the system and what am I downloading? What am I doing when synchronising?
Answer: as it says out of memory one would assume you do need a larger memory card. How do I enter co-ordinates? Can I download aires in France for this model from somewhere etc Camperstop doesn't seem to include this model. If you look at co-ordinates in the camperstop book how do I type them in?
Does the 'degree' symbol have to go in? Answer: Read the manual, its probably hidden away somewhere on the CD. Put the CD in your pc and go into 'my computer'.
Right click on the CD drive icon and select 'open'. Browse through the CD directories till you find the english manual and open it. Probably best to print it out for easy reading and reference. This model does not seem to be able to enter journey for anything other than car, bike, pedestrian. Can this be changed to hgv etc? Answer: Same as answer 2 above.
Should I buy a better aerial called an 'external gps antenna' or is the one with it sufficient. Not had any TMC messages and need a simple lesson on this. Any ideas of good websites to teach me. Does the radio have to be on? Do I have to tune it into a TMC station all the time or listen to another station. Does it work if a cd is on?
Answer: does it receive GPS signals well or does it drop connection frequently? If it holds the GPS (number of satellites) well then an external aerial will not be necessary.Unless you are connecting your Gopal to the radio then it will be completely separate from it and no you will not have to tune the radio to anything special, for more info in this read the manual. Can use the satnav for its function and it warns us of all speed cameras and when we are braking the speed limit so can use it everyday now but want to know and prepare for Europe mainly France in 3 weeks time so that I don't miss out on anything. Thanks in advance everyone. I am on a learning curve and struggle with terminology and understanding of new gadgets.
I am not dull just not electronic and have loads to do at work so need simple instructions. I have no pre-knowledge of satnav abreviations and terminology. Chris Hope this helps a bit, D.