Yesterday in a moment of weakness I bought a stand-alone Navman GPS unit from ALDI. Installed the software from the DVD onto my iMac then commenced the registration process. Nope, no good. Serial number was not recognised as valid. More telling, this particular one is not on the list of current models, meaning Navman stockists other than ALDI don’t stock the item.
A leaflet inside the box showed URLs to redeem a 15% discount from the Navman store and to redeem 2 years of free quarterly map updates. These two URLs went to dead websites, both showing 404.
I have returned it to another ALDI store closer to home for a full refund.
I did use it briefly and frankly the Sygic navigation app on my Lumia 1520 and the Here WeGo apps on my iPhone, iPad & Android tablet are far superior, more settings, different voices available and a speed detector that can work in increments of 1 kph rather than the Navman’s pathetic 5 kph increment.
Hell, even Google or Apple Maps are better to use except for the lack of speed detectors.