Since weeks i've been following threads and reviews about the Navicore kit, WITH a carkit for your fine N800. But it seems only US citizens are able to buy this kit.

At the Navicoretech.com site i've been searching for resellers in both Belgium and The Netherlands. I live in both countries and theoretically it would make my chances bigger to score a kit. But i've called several stores an none of 'm sells the kit nor the software. (They had not so good experiences in selling the software...)

I can buy the software through the NC site for 149 euro. But i want the KIT with the carkit!! Is there a european reader here who knows a (n) (online) store where to grab a kit from? Please leave a message! Thanks

http://blogrq.blogspot.com

May be from http://europe.nokia.com buy Navigation kit? 199 euro?

Hey man! That does it.
http://direct.nokia.com/countries.as...tN800&add=true

You can choose your country.

Thanks for the tip!
Q

http://blogrq.blogspot.com

You might want to try out Maemo Mapper too, the Navicore is not so hot - my other navigator a Navigon 7000t PNA is much better in many respects and I'm going to use that rather than Navicore on my coming trip. But I got the N800 and will compare side by side during next month, in Europe...

Why bother comparing? It would be no contest. The Navigon unit is head and shoulders above just about anything out there.

It uses all of its 400 MHz, Samsung ticker to do one thing very well... Navigate. It has the same size screen as the N800 but runs at a lower resolution. However, it has "Reality View" which is amazing. I caught a glimpse of the software at the end of last year. It was running on WinCE I believe. It looked like it would rock. In the US they were calling it the 7100.

However, if your taking the N800 for other purposes and you need software that will tell you when you take a wrong turn and will find the way home for you, Navicore will do just fine.

The N800 also lets you run Maemo Mapper which I wont leave home with out but it really is a different application. It can not plot changes on the fly with out a connection but, you can view satellite, topographical, and many other map formats that you download and save.

I use Maemo Mapper as a charting app and a secondary store of personal POI's.