Indago Satellite Navigation Independent Reviews

Initial impressions are of a solidly built unit and while being shirt pocket sized it still maintains that reassuring weight of quality that one expects when speeding a few hundred pounds. The Snooper Indago covers all the basics that you should be looking for in a satellite navigation system and more. It's touch screen, 2D & 3D colour mapping with turn-by-turn voice guidance (Jack or Jane), full 7 digit postcode search, automatic re-route if you go wrong and of course a comprehensive database of fixed and mobile camera locations.

Indago is very forward thinking in the directions that it gives you. Many competitive systems are based on giving you instructions at certain distances before the turning and if you have 2 or more turnings close together the systems can miss their cue. Indago is able to factor this in and give you advanced warning to "turn left followed by immediately turn right" for example.

One of the biggest differences between this and most of its competitors such as TomTom or Garmin is that is has a proper, professional speed camera database. Others have half heartly tried to throw together something built up from some enthusiasts databases in an effort to sell more units. Looking at these databases we found they only held about 60% of speed camera locations. Snooper on the other hand have been doing speed camera detection systems for 20 years, they have a range of products solely dedicated to protecting your licence and therefore have to provide and actively keep updated the best possible speed camera database that is possible. The outcome is a truely 2 in 1 product.

Anybody who is not a fan of Microsoft will be glad to know that Snooper have built the Indago on a Linux platform rather than Windows CE. The result is a much more stable system that we haven't yet been able to crash. Just as well since there is no inbuilt reset button on the unit - a telling sign of lessor products. No expense has been spared on this unit, quality NAVTEQ mapping (as opposed to TeleAtlas), lithium-ion battery (rather than nickel-cadmium) and the latest SiRF Star III GPS receiver. Screen brightness and volume is also very good.

We have been specialist niche sellers of speed trap detectors since 1997 so don't take it lightly when we say that our expectations have been surpassed with this product.

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