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 Some good features, but some bad... June 15, 2010
Rerevisionist (Manchester, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I haven't used a sat nav before, and bought this one without attempting much market research. (Bloke in Curry's said it's the market leader).
[1] Nice suction pad device to attach to windscreen. I put mine at the lower right - where the licence would be, but on the driver's side. You can remove the satnav when you leave the car. The fixing of the machine to the section device has a knack to clicking it in place - or it can come out.
[2] Cigar lighter connector pokes straight out and can get in the way of the gear stick. (It can be charged from a computer's USB port too). It's best to plug it in as the battery life isn't huge.
[3] It is difficult to use, unless you love pressing buttons to see what happens next. I'm looking now at a map it's showing me, my street. I want to set this position as a 'Favourite' or a 'Point of Interest' so I can find it again. The thing says: Postpone/ Delete/ Handle now' and is completely unhelpful. This is typical. There are several menus with the briefest possible info; similar pictures pop up in different places. The technology is terrific - it's like a BBC costume drama with enormous money paid out, but the script useless and trashy. (I see one review states you can't turn the destination search feature off, and just use it to show whwre you are. In fact, you can, but it's not clear how).
[4] There are some amusing features - for example I have a Queen soundalike voice. ("One has arrived at one's destination.") Ozzie Osbourne is fun ("You ave arroived at your f**ing destinition") and I have a Julian Clary voice too, some of these downloaded from TomTom's site. There's a fixed speed camera warning. There's a warning if you go fast which is also selectable - "Slow down, speedy" mine says.
[5] The satnav can get a bit puzzled if there are huge wide roads with many exits close to each other.
[6] Entering a new place's location: suppose you're visiting someone and want to note the place; you should be able to just press a button and then enter the address or your description. OR you should be able to enter some landmark's map references. But it's bafflingly difficult. Note: you can't enter (for example) a car park location - it only notes a location if it's on a road. Disappointing as it could be useful with a huge car park to navigate back.
[7] It's good for walking - you can see if a short cut really goes where you want, for example. And when driving, if you want to detour to see something, it's very easy to go back - you can never get lost. Very positive in that sense, and something I hadn't realised.
[8] The internal maps are digital, i.e. stored as a set of points with connecting lines - I assume, anyway. This would explain messages now and then telling you to bear right, at a point where the road has no junctions. It would be nice to have Ordnance Survey maps so you could see churches, Public Houses, contour lines... but these aren't available with this sat nav as far as I know.
[9] There isn't space for many stored favourites - it reminds me of mobile phones where there isn't much message storage. Why they do this, I don't know - it has memory of at least a Gigabyte.
[10] Rerouting is fairly easy. If you find a road is closed, you select the symbol of an arrow with a rectangular bend in the middle. It'll calculate a new route excluding that road.
[11] I was told the best satnav is NavMan - first used for boats, until someone thought of adding mapsd and going inland.
[12] I can't honestly recommend it for ease of use. It may be other satnavs are worse though - I don't know and frankly can't be ars*d to find out - the people who sell the things should do the work for you.
 Tom Tom XL Classic June 14, 2010
prickly (yorkshire)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have always navigated quite easily using a map, but as we are getting older thought investing in a Tom Tom might be a good idea, and boy was I right! This does exactly what it says on the tin, getting from A to B is a doddle and even if we take a wrong turning it soon has us back on track. It is so easy to use and you can even ask it to avoid certain routes - for us it's the Magic roundabout in Swindon - and it recalculates for you. All in all a good product to buy.
Tom-Tom Classic sat-nav June 7, 2010
Mrs. Margaret Wrenn (Hartlepool UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is great - my husband has tried other sat-navs, but this is definitely the best!!!
The camera and speed limit warnings are very good too, as sometimes you are not aware that yu have crept up over the limit, even slightly.
Keep up the good work!!
Margaret Wrenn.
sat nav tom tom April 9, 2010
Alan G. Marshall
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great product, it found the right way all round scottish villages in the cairngorms, easy to use and read, good price. Only downside was updating it on computer which would not work until had tried several things to get this to work. Would buy again good fun to use too. If known it was so good might have got the europe map version as it would be great in europe. Also needs a case and charger optional extras. Once or twice it has led me into very major road works it knew nothing about so use common sense. The route is immediately re calculated though if you disobey orders!
 Not full postcode as stated in literature April 5, 2010
ian
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Great product unless you need to navigate to a location which doesn't have a house number. On my old tomtom you could bypass the request for a house number but on this one you have to put it in. Full postcodes only cover around 8 houses and so tomtom should present house number for example (189-193) but instead it often offers 2-502 to select from. this can put you a mile or more from the actual postcode you typed in. By the way, this isn't an issue about downloading a patch. The full postcode database has been downloaded. tomtom have been informed and are aware of the issue but don't think that it is a problem for most people - it probably isn't but they should not say that it uses the full postcode.
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