How to choose the right Sat Nav as a gift and then program and package it creatively!

1. BUYING A SAT NAV AS A GIFT
So what's this article all about? Surely you simply buy a Sat Nav
and wrap it up and then leave it on your loved one's bed on
Christmas Eve?
Well, that's one way of doing it, but let's be a little more thoughtful
about how to prepare it and give it. When you get the Sat Nav, all
boxed and gleaming from Amazon, carefully get it out and check
everything is there and nothing's been damaged. It should have
some charge in the device, but carefully take it out and give it a
good overnight charge; it may be a type that simply connects to a
USB computer port or you may have a Motorola type phone
charger that will charge it. See, thoughtful!
Now for the fun part. Look through the manual so you'll be able to
teach your loved one how to use it and you'll look like an expert as
soon as it's out of the box. You won't of course let on that you've
already sneakily scanned the instructions!
You'll find out how to programme in destinations and how to name
them as well as store them as presets. Why not find out key places
and have them programmed in as a surprise? You could store that
restaurant where you had your first romantic date? The holiday
home you'd love to go back to. Any location where your recipient
always gets lost finding. Program them in, then shut the thing
down and pack it up very carefully as if it hasn't been touched!
So how do you present your gift of a Sat Nav? You'd wrap it in an
old road map of course! When you're asked why ruin a perfectly
good map, you'd say that it would never be needed in the future
anyway!
So what Sat Nav would you choose as a gift? It all depends on the
person, really. If you know it'd only be used occasionally and only
on local and regional roads, you wouldn't over spend on an all
singing all dancing model, and a Tom Tom Start would be perfectly
acceptable.
If the person you're buying for has, however, a busy lifestyle that
sees them doing loads of travelling up and down the motorways
and trunk roads, a Sat Nav with traffic news facility is essential.

2. These clever devices will tell you about jams up ahead way before
local radio will know about it, and sometimes even the police. The
Sat Nav Heaven team are in love with the Navigon 8450 at the
moment, as it has everything the professional driver needs and it
looks so cool with its brushed aluminium.
This model and Garmin's 3760T or the voice activated version the
Garmin 3790T must be the best Sat Navs on the market today.
However, even the best traffic systems won't tell you about the
congestion in local or rural areas, so only buy a traffic information
enabled device if you know the driver is a long hauler!
Check out Sat Nav Heaven for more details of these devices to
choose from, and also our sister site which has loads of ideas for
gifts that aren't so technologically advanced!
Thanks for reading this and good luck with finding that perfect Sat
Nav gift!
Peter Baker
Peter Baker is a writer, journalist and health issues correspondent with a
background at BBC TV news, radio and ITV production.
After writing a book about stress and set up the Practical Stressbusters
website, ( http://www.practicalstressbusters.com ) one of the spin-offs was
recommending good satellite navigation systems for drivers to help reduce
stress. Peter's now a trusted independent sat-nav consultant and he writes
many reviews on the http://www.satnavheaven.org site.
He also writes on consumer affairs and is a contributor to the new gift finding
site, http://www.giftideafinder.co.uk