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Great basic navigation

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:01 GMT

Great basic navigation

Photog from Boston, MA

Pros: In my work I am often required to travel to places I’ve never so much as heard of on very short notice. I have owned my Tomtom One for several months now and it has yet to let me down. Both the visual and audio turn-by-turn directions are clear and easy to follow. If you make a wrong turn, within seconds the unit recalculates the route to get you to your destination. When it first arrived, as a test, I asked it to navigate me to several destinations I knew well. I was pleased to find that the vast majority of the time Tomtom took me along the same route I would have chosen as a “local” - maybe not the most obvious route but probably the smartest route.The price is low but there’s nothing cheap about it. Of course, it doesn’t play mp3s and videos or display my digital photos but I don’t want it to - I have separate devices that do those things better. Cons: Tomtom is a European product and it shows if you want to take advantage of the “Plus” features or additional downloads. … Read more

why so complicated?

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT

why so complicated?

vrodg from southern maryland

it seems to be a good product and so fare it works great. it was a gift for my mom (65 yrs young), she's the not the most technologically savey comsumer. the on screen menu's take some practice to operate correctly and navigate. i have another unit from a different manufacturer and it's much simpler to operate on the fly. this product is not so easy to navigate through the meneu while underway. Read more

This Is Reliable; I'm Very Happy

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:01 GMT

This Is Reliable; I'm Very Happy

quaker from Daytona Beach, FL

I picked Tom Tom because it had the LEAST number of bad reviews, and I wanted to pay a little more to get above the cheapest models which gave users the poorest performance. My standard had been Magellan, after first using it in a rental car back in the 1990s, but poor reviews have changed my mind about the Magellan models (at least for the lower end units). I think you can't go wrong with this Tom Tom series. This model is well-made and easy to set up. I was using this literally right out of the box. I opened it in the parking lot and drove from Daytona Beach to Jacksonville (Florida) without any problems. The maps are up-to-date and you get a year of free Tom Tom updates and probably forever use of the user-fixed maps, which you update by linking to your Internet-connected PC via the included USB cable. You can customize voices, map colors, points-of-interest, etc. I don't know how to tell where the battery indicator is, but I keep it plugged in to the cigarette lig … Read more

Excellent Starter GPS

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:01 GMT

Excellent Starter GPS

Ray from Kansas City

What a bargain! I usually have found refurbished items to be without any risk. Generally the company takes extra care and time to insure each unit is performing up to standards before releasing it for sale. This doesn't happen on assembly line manufacturing. I have had numerous GPS units (Call it a hobby) and I have found TomTom to be top rate. Some think the menus are complex but I do not find them to be overly so. One of the major things I like about the TomTom's is the ability to tailor-make most features: map colors, voices, routing, keyboard, direct entry lat/long co-ordinates (great for geo-caching), language, etc. Visually, the display is colorful and the lettering is large and easily readable. Usable information pops on the screen when navigating: name of the town, the next street, the street you're on, side streets, railroad tracks, arrival time, speed/speed limit, drive time, etc. All without accessing the menus and taking your eyes off the road for very long. The spea … Read more

The best GPS

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:01 GMT

The best GPS

Abu Sumaya from Clarkston

the product is great in giving me demo before I start driving to my trip Read more