TomTom ONE 3rd Edition 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator
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Customer Review: go garmin or go nuts..
Summary: 1 Stars
After doing some research around Amazon I discovered what I thought was accurate information in that tom tom had all free map updates. Could be i just had awful luck in which reviews i chose to read, because they all seemed to point towards the company having free map updates. Truth be told, they don't. You can get map share updates that people have put into the system as roads change (or they find things tomtom missed) etc. I love my girlfriends garmin nuvi and used it to get to a new job i started about a month ago, until i purchased this. What i've come to find is first, you do not get FREE map updates with tom tom. Second, your arrival time is just absurdly off: it will start roughly 20 minutes more time than actual (for an hour drive) and get closer as you arrive to your destination, and I only drive 5mph over like the rest of the free world, the nuvi was dead on from the get-go within 1-4 minutes (again, for an hour drive); also the maps are not accurate, i've already found a few roads that are just NOT in the system even though they have been there for years, the roads were in the Nuvi.
fyi, I do have all updates installed for the gps, maps are even the latest (for now)
The reason I wanted a GPS of my own was to give me an estimate of when I will arrive at work (since its an hour away.. i know how to get there at this point), especially in the winter when I may be slowed down some. This unit will not accomplish that (at least not when i hop in my car in the morning, or am not w/in 5 miles of the destination). The other thing is the actual road my place of work is isn't even on the map! Its been there for more than a decade.. Obviously i wanted a gps in general for vacations etc as well, but cannot imagine that going to my satisfaction with this device.
Do more research before you buy, I wish i would have.
On a side note, and yes this is somewhat my fault, but the plastic shell these come in will essentially require some combination of a jack-hammer and dynamite to open. I threw what was left of it away before i discovered what a disgrace this gps is. No returns for me..
Customer Review: AWFUL PRODUCT, STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE!!!!!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
UPDATE: MY TOMTOM QUIT WORKING AFTER JUST OVER A YEAR OF USE AND SINCE IT IS OUT OF WARRANTY TOMTOM WILL NOT FIX IT. I WAS TOLD BY THEIR CUSTOMER SERVICE TO FIND SOMEONE ON THE INTERNET TO FIX IT!!! I WOULD HAVE PAID THEM TO FIX IT IF THAT WAS AN OPTION BUT IT IS NOT.
The TOMTOM is easy to use and is ready to go right out of the box, but I would not recommend this unit to anyone. It has directed me through more back roads, dirt roads and subdivisions than I care to think about. If you like to drive through residential developments instead of the main road then by all means buy this unit. I tried to set the unit for both "fastest route" and "most direct route" with little effect on how it routed me. It once tried to route my through Wisconsin when I was trying to drive back to Flint, MI from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. On a mountain road in Kentucky, as I drove around the curves it repeatedly told me to make turns-- as if I had any other choice.
On most GPS units I have used, you can get an eagle's eye view (zoom out)by hitting the minus key on the unit. On the TOMTOM, you have a very limited overview function, maybe only 2-4 miles ahead. If most of your trip is going to be on the same highway, it is impossible to visually check your progress due to the limited zoom function. When you use the minus key to get an overview of the route, as soon as you get near any cross road, the unit jumps back to the default zoom.
I find this unit to be a constant irritation when driving. The voice commands are incessant. It seems to nag more than instruct. It tells you over and over that a turn is coming up. I usually turn the volume down on the TOMTOM so I can barely hear it.
The battery life is very short. It must be plugged in to the cigarette lighter while in use. It did not come with a wall plug. If you parked your car and went on a walking tour of a city with the TOMTOM it would be of very little use to you. My TOMTOM battery life is only about 20 minutes, forget about using it on a bike trip, though the unit does give you routing options for bike trails.
Customer Review: bitter sweet?
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to admit overall I have come to like this thing, and have recomended it to a freind. The list of bad things; when I come home and pull in the parking lot it tells me to turn around (silly not a real problem), it wants me to go around the block because it thinks my driveway is blocked by the median (usually it is good at knowing, but this is close), it did not know a bussines address (I think it is set up for private residance), It is picky about the city choosen for streets and addresses, I got a tour with two construction closings in route. I suppose you are wondering why I gave it such a good review. Well you can change settings to watch speeding (usually only good on freeway with acuracy of limits), estimated time of arrival, compass, quick reroutes if you "miss or ignore" directions, volume controll, touch screen, gave me valid suggestions I have not thought of before, keeps me from spacing out and "just going strait", it was cheap, it came with everything I needed (charger, mount, unit), it totally saved me on tolls by taking the "no tolls route", I found out that my cars speedometer is off by about 3-4 mph, I can see the names of street before I get to them, you can go to a "cross interection" for addresses that dont work or have, the construction is a charge item and the rerouting would have happened regaurdless of if I used the device or not, shows gas stations, can store home and favorite locations, when typing it pulls up lists of choices like "w" would pull up wisconsin, and wyonming ect. If the voice gets anoying you can turn it off, it tells you what lane to be in (even though the way it talks about the freeway lanes is funny). All maps have some form of errors, missing streets and proposed streets that never got built. I have not plugged it in for updates yet, because for the most part it seems fine and the silly things are usually pretty obvious. Maps dont show parking lots or driveways either no wonder a simple computer gets confused when you are "off roading". I'm sure their is better out their, but for the price I can figure this one out.Customer Review: Extremely bad experience
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this device at the end of summer 2007. The device worked great until January 2008 when I tried to install the TomTom Home 2 upgrade from previous Home 1. For some strange reasons the device wiped out everything from the SD card and would not function. I sent it in for repair and waited three weeks to get it back. The moment I hooked it up to my computer it showed an error message with no details. Then I found out everything in the SD card was gone. I had to call Tech support again and worked with them for two hours before getting another RMA to send it in again. About three weeks later I got it back and it behaved exactly the same. The moment I hooked it to computer the device wiped out everything. The third time I got it back from repair, I called the tech support before hooking it up to computer. The tech support tried to instruct me how to correctly hook it up to computer and only to find out it did exactly the same thing. Everything is gone after connecting to computer. After that nobody can recover except to send it in. I cannot even format the SD card. We tried Home 1, Home 2, reinstall, clean the registry, but that seems not the problem. The tech support told me it must be my computer or the XP system or the USB port so I tried different computers, with XP and 2000, USB1.1 and USB2.0. Nothing would work. Absolutely nothing. Finally the tech support thought the hard drive is bad and asks me to send it in again. Then why they sent a bad device to me in the first place? I was a big fan of Tomtom last year and told everybody around me to get a tomtom. Luckily they did not. My friends have Magellan. Garmin, even Mio, and NONE of them had the same problem. I don't understand why such a brand name like Tomtom could have such bad reliability problems. One silver lining is that the tech support is nice and extremely polite and that is why I still give Tomtom one star. But that does not solve my problem and I've been gone many trips without my gps so that I am seriously thinking to get another one. Anyone but Tomtom.Customer Review: The Little GPS that could
Summary: 4 Stars
This is my first GPS only device (i was using my phone before)- It does what it needs to well.
Pros:
-Fast and accurate directions
-Recalculates fast
-many voices
-GREAT price point
-Touch screen is great
Cons
-No Text-to-Speech
-No bluetooth
-No traffic (unless you get seperate attachment)
I was looking for something that would get me where i need to go, fast and accurately, without all the extras - well this device does that. It finds where i'm at, calculates where i'm going, and recalculates new routes (if i miss a turn... or if i want a different route) fast. All this at about $160 (that's what i got it for).
some of the small things i like are the details that it gives you, how fast your going, how many miles left, approx. what time you'll arrive at your destination. Also you can personalize it by downloading new voices, changing maps if needed.
The cons are more of a, "it would be nice to have" but not a deal breaker-
Text-to-Speech:
This is when the unit reads the street names and freeways your trying to get on. This doesn't seem like a big deal... but when you have a few small streets or freeway exits close together, and the unit says "turn right", it can be a little annoying.
Traffic:
You can buy a seperate piece that will give traffic info to the unit... but it's almost $130 and that's just as much as what i paid for the TomTom itself.
Bluetooth:
I think the previous versions had bluetooth but not the 3rd edition - I don't need it for phone calls and such, but this was another way for the unit to get traffic info.
Again the pros far outweigh the cons, especially for the price point - great little GPS device, if you don't need all the bells and whistles, save some money and get this one! If you do, then for $100 bucks more check out the TomTom XLS (make sure you get the one with the S as it has text-to-speech while just the XL does not.)