In most cases it does, with some smart extras such as Navigons Lane assistant which guides you to the correct lane during major junctions.

In terms of purchasing, Navigon have gone down the route of providing different versions of MN6, so if you decided to change your mind and add some navigation software onto your mobile for example, you would have to purchase two seperate products.

Navigon have also been clever with its approach to the user interface and have replaced the bog standard menus - you see on most navigation software - with a nifty animated affair that opens and retracts when clicked on. We do however recommend turning off the animation to speed things up a tad.

From the front menu you can choose to input destinations a number of ways, as well as the post code entry, city or street name, you can save destinations as voice commands and literally speak where you want to go, though this is a hit and miss affair as occasionally did not recognise our voice.

Also you use your Outlook contacts, as long as there is some address information attached- though this takes a bit of working out as the instructions on how to do this are a bit fiddly.

We found entering address’s - based on postcode - a bit awkward, if for example you enter the full post code you can’t then add a house number to fine tune your search, its best to do a partial postcode search and add additional information.

Thankfully its auto-fill function will help out by filling in the remain parts of street names you input.

Other nice features include Navigons Logbook, Bluetooth wireless support, TMC (Both of which are hardware dependant), safety camera database, speed warning system and the afore mentioned Lane assistant.

The Logbook feature will appeal to company car drivers as the Logbook captures information such as distance travelled and average speed, which can then be exported into Excel for further analysis.

We found navigational performance using our test PDA to be more than up to the job. Initially route calculation could have been faster but it was a lot quicker than the PNA versions.

Route re-calculations were quick and destinations were reached pretty accurately. The 2D/3D maps were fairly detailed, providing useful information such as street names and travel indicators clearly displayed on-screen. Like the PNA versions we found the safety camera feature did not pick up cameras during our test route, there must be something wrong with the mapping software we feel or simply that the cameras were missed out, however there may be a possible upgrade path as the safety camera database seems to be Poi Warner file, which is a 3rd party solution - but this adds to the cost.

The best feature was the Lane assistant, when we nipped on a busy M42/M6 junction it told us which lane to be in, this was much appreciated and highlights Navigons attempts to bring something new to the table.

Voice directions were spoken clearly but again the womans voice grates you after a while and the volume will need to be lowered as she gets quite loud.