ADDITIONAL BATTERY CABLE T/F TOMTOM RIDER

March 23, 2008 | By Doug In TomTomGo |

ADDITIONAL BATTERY CABLE T/F TOMTOM RIDER
ADDITIONAL BATTERY CABLE T/F TOMTOM RIDER

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TomTom ONE XL Europe
The TomTom One XL GPS navigator really does its manufacturer proud! Thanks to this nifty GPs navigator with a large 4.3″ navigation screen, you can make your trip safer, more relaxed and more fun. Most GPS units only come with a 3.5″ screen, which makes them a little more difficult to use.The TomTom One XL makes travelling so much easier thanks to its LCD screen, as you can see the navigational instructions better. This handy little device also calculates the quickest and shortest routes and toll-free routes, and also keeps you up to date, thanks to the optional real-time traffic information kit.Furthermore, this navigator pinpoints thousands of points of interests such as hotels, restuarants, petrol stations or museums. With the TomTom One XL, you’ll never go off course again!Maps included: Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Ireland, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, Vatican City.Internal menu languages: Czech, Danish, German, Estonian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish, Turkish, Flemish, Slovak, Catalan and Hungarian.
Amazon Price: ?172.70
Customer Review: A great buy
I live in the south of France and will be travelling to various friends and relatives both in the UK and Europe. I thought that having a GPS would be easier and cause fewer arguments, tantrums, door slams etc than having my partner map read (with me having all of these, not my partner). I have read several consumers reports on several GPS brands and was quite put off by all the negative comments and so delayed any purchase. The negatives being - unable to find satellites, the unit falling off the window, crashes, lack of support, impossible upgrades, out of date upgrades and the best use for a GPS being a paper weight. I then re-read several of them and realised that there were just as many positive comments as there was negative for ALL brands and so decided to take the plunge and bought a TomTom One XL Europe. I have been using it for just over two weeks now, and cannot fault it. It worked straight from the box, it has no problem finding satellites, it doesn’t crash, it continues in a long tunnel near where I live (without satellite connection) and picks up again as soon as I am in open air. It doesn’t fall off the window as stated and as far as I can make out, the only thing it doesn’t tell you about are the bumps in the road (and the roads where I live are bad). Perhaps the person who made this comment should remove the protective cover from the suction cup. On a recent trip, I did the usual and ignored the route instructions to see if I could confuse the system and was told within 50 meters to turn round. I didn’t and within another 50 meters it had recalculated a fresh route. I then turned round onto the original route and again it recalculated within seconds. The only negative comments I can make, are that the battery only lasts a miserable two hours, so it is no good for ramblers or using it to find a route on foot or bike, the lack of a home/mains charger and the fact that it tries to put me on a motorway at St. Andr?-de-Sangonis which isn’t yet opened, (so much for the out of date upgrades). I have taken on board the consumer comment about the small and very full memory and have bought a 2Gig chip and reader as suggested. I haven’t tried to download yet (I am still on dial-up and I think a download will take too long), I am still waiting for an engineer to install my WiFi connection but that is my fault as I only ordered it two months ago!! c’est la vie as they say here. I will then try the download. My advice to any one who is thinking about buying a GPS is as follows. Read all the comments and the technical details thoroughly. Talk to anyone that has a GPS. Visit several shops and handcuff yourself to an assistant and make he/she go through each and everyone of the GPS’s in the store, after all, you could be spending up to ?300, so make sure you have the right system and the system that is right for you.
Customer Review: Minor Flaws but a Good Buy
I’ve been using this for about 3 months now and am generally happy with it. I’ve found that I often need to add a waypoint to suggested routes as it usually wants to take me the most direct rather than the fastest route. I’ve used it in the centre of Edinburgh and it hadn’t a clue about some one-way routes or even the most practical routes, but it always got me there in the end, even though some of it’s suggestions were illegal. I’ve also noticed that sometimes what it says are roads are actually closed-off forest tracks and the most annoying feature is that out in the country it seems to think that every grouping of 2 or more houses is a 30mph limit, even though it’s 60, and it keeps bonging at me. However, I’ve just taken it to France and used it from Beauvais to Disneyland Paris and it was spot on the whole way, which was just as well as I didn’t have a map. Now I’ll never drive in Europe without it and wish I’d had it ages ago, when I think of all the times I got a bit lost abroad.