Advantages: Just Brilliant. Disadvantages: Price, risk of theft, otherwise none.
LATEST _ Tomtom lasted just over a week, then gave up the ghost, took it back to Argos - they were brilliant, was given the offer of my money back, opted for a replacement. This review is on the Tomtom One Version 3, Local only, if you intend adding lots of maps, then go for the Europe version. Having owned and used a Tomtom One, version one for two years, I can recommend them, unfortunately mine developed a fault, and I need one for work, so I ended ... ...economic repair anyway. If Tomtom do quote too high a price, then there is another alternative, I know of at least one company specialising in the repair of these units, at a more reasonable rate than Tomtom. The procedure is that you contact Tomtom, they send you a flat pack carton, and you take this containing your device, to the Post Office. After a while, you receive an e-mail advising you of the cost of a repair, you accept or decline, and receive ...
smudgeybabes 18.05.2008 (25.05.2008)
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of TomTom ONE V3 Europe
Advantages: Price, Free traffic updates, slimline, Tom Tom one home Disadvantages: Accuracy of TMC (not tom toms fault), Map problems,
I Recently replace my Garmin Street pilot unit with a TOM TOM V3 Europe (Traffic edition). I mainly did this because I wanted a low cost traffic solution, and I was able to get this from Halfords for under £170.00 (at the time of purchase) It came complete with the TMC receiver module.
Another reason for choosing Tom Tom was how disappointed I was with my Garmin, and how much better my Wife's Tom Tom one original was compared to it.
The unit is ... ...car fixed on with suction pads. It has a touch screen, and the menu icons are quite large. However I have thick fingers and I find that the touch pad keyboard screen used for Post codes/addresses is too small and I often get letters/numbers that I havent touched.
The display screen is smaller than compared to many other units, but I have never found this to be any kind of a problem at all. It is large enough to clearly display upcomming turns/direction, ...
P_S_Price 16.04.2008 (17.04.2008)
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Advantages: Easy to use and still going strong a 18 months later Disadvantages: none really
In my job I have to use my Tom Tom all over the country. It is one of the best purchases I have ever made for my job. At the time (over a year ago) some of my friends decided they would use their fancy PDAs to be their Sat Navs. But they constantly lost signals and we would miss turnings and would have to get road maps out or stop and wait for the signal to come back.
This is why I decided to buy a separate bit of technology to get around the country ... ...that's because I accidentally managed to knock the memory card out. But all I needed was a pin to reset it.
It does really what it says on the tin, it gets you from A to B with very little fuss and I recently attached it to my computer and downloaded some free software which made it even better to use.
I haven't updated the road maps but that's fine because it's always going to be a rough guide as there's digging going on everywhere and as there's ...
bumbybumbum 26.08.2008
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Advantages: Easy to use. Disadvantages: Some local information missing.
I am hopeless when I am driving and I do tend to get very lost. I looked around for all the products on the market because I did have a strict budget. This fell into my price range of £50-£100 and so I thought I would go for this one. It seemed the easiest to use and also being fairly hopeless with technology I decided that this was the best product to go for.
When it arrived it was really easy to set up. There are step by step instructions for ... ...and if you follow them all it only takes 10 minutes to set up and then you are ready to go. On top of that it is easy to charge as it comes with an in-car chager and a USB cable that you attach to your PC and it charges from there. To get up to full battery you need to charge it for only 2 hours. The touch screen makes it easy to use and you can easily choose how much information you want it to show on the screen. It is also easy to keep updated ...
sarahtheoneandonly 08.01.2009
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Advantages: Actually knows where its going! Disadvantages: Not enough Memory space, and no expansion card slot
...of £119.99 (with £10 free TOMTOM Home goodies, voices, maps etc)
As soon as it reaches the car windscreen it knows what its doing, Unlike our previous PDA Sat Nav it finds and pin points exactly where you are in seconds, whereas the little PDA bless its little cotton socks got lost and confused time to time and started shouting irrelevant directions to us. TOMTOM however is clever, if you turn the wrong way seconds later it is directing you through ... ...to put in a postcode.
TOMTOM boasts a full 6 digit post code search and puts you through the front door of the place your going, im not kidding. As soon as you enter the drive it politely announces that 'you have arrived at your destination' in its rather sexy woman voice, or for the ladies, whatever they please, american man, autrailian man, or even GERMAN MAN that shouts ACHTUNG LEFTZIG TURNUNG AHEADUNDSCHLAF!. (I made that up)
All in all, just ...
tubster011 06.01.2008
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Advantages: nice clear instructions and good battery life Disadvantages: didn't have my home address.
I found this navigation system much easier to use than other products out there. The battery life was good and the voices clear and easy to understand. it also had a very easy to navigate menu however i found problems in locating my home address as it wasn't available as a selection. The battery life was an advantage as i did not have to be constantly charging up the sat Nav. It may be slightly more expensive than some of its competitors but in my ...
ruthiexxxxxx 16.09.2008
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Advantages: maps are very up to date Disadvantages: battery dies pretty fast
...back alleys and short-cuts and TomTom knows them all, and they're all kept up to date too, a new speed camera was fitted and it knew before I did!
You have to make sure you keep it regularly updated using the software provided but as long as you do you shouldn't have any problems at all.
There's a lot of personable features from the colour of the maps, start-up images, voices etc. but I prefer the factory settings so I don't get distracted.
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ParkinK02 08.04.2008
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Advantages: Simple, touchscreen operation, easy to use while driving - and walking! Disadvantages: Doesnt come with traffic alerts etc
...went out and bought this Tomtom One satnav....and money well spent it has been!
Since buying this device i've changed jobs and had to do a lot of travelling, particularly around London. I really dont know what I would have done without it. The amount of times its 'saved the day' makes it worthwhile. Not just when lost, but when you see signs for traffic jams ahead, just press a few buttons and the satnav will divert you around roadblocks ahead, ... ...to use, completely portable and a big and bright enough screen to see and use whilst driving. I even took it out of the car once when in edinburgh and walked around the streets with it to find my nearest Pizza Express! (Battery lasts arounf 3 hours)
All in all, a great device for a reasonable price. Not the most expensive on the market, but it doesnt have the fancy features so you wouldnt expect it to be. Great but simple device, would recommend! ...
geordieg00 14.08.2008
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Advantages: Easy to use even for me Disadvantages: Cant think of any
This product is great went to franch last year and came in very handy for finding our friends villa, took us right to the door.
Great value for money and i wouldnt be without it now as i get lost evry easy :), lovely little gadget great that it talks like most sat navs i know, but i had a cheap one few years back that kept losing the signal this one hasnt once, and if you miss turning it re directs you very quickly.
I also like that it has a nice ... ...can use it when you are walking around which comes in handy when you are in big cities/towns that you dont know very well. you can find places really easy, and if you dnt know the postcode for some places e.g. cribbs causeway bristol i typed in cribbs causeway and it found the address for me. ...
Angela2307 20.03.2008
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Quick review of TomTom ONE V3 Europe
i do like the tom tom, just think the tom tom always take you the long way round. i cant understand that part of it and its so annoying when you know if it went another way it would take at least ten minutes off your journey. it is helpful though if you are lost as it always knows where you are and how to get you back to where you need to go. ...
smandy1979 14.09.2008
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Quick review of TomTom ONE V3 Europe
The product name suggest it contains maps for Europe while it contains maps for Western Europe only. If you only drive in Western Europe it's probably good for you. If you would like to drive to central or eastern Europe, forget about it. It's not possible to install additional maps on it.
Build-in memory is too small and it's not possible to add more. ...
AndSta 28.03.2008
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Advantages: Easy to Use, Cheap, All Most People Really Need Disadvantages: Being Told To Keep Right on the Motorway. Can be Distracting.
...you know and let the TomTom take you from their. See downside point 2.
2. Points of interest - Can include anything from restuarants & cinenas to your local funeral dirctor - Many free sites to download from.
3. Speed camera details.
4. Speedo - My 2002 Mondeo underclocks by about 10% and I've only just noticed so I can now get everywhere 10% quicker without worrying about speeding - This is Great news.
5. Updates from TomTom webside including ... ...area you know then let TomTom do the rest. This will save you hours of stress wondering why you've just driven in a huge circle.
3. The beep to tell you that you are speeding. Yes I know - Turn it off.
4. Being continually told to stay right at every junction on a motorway. Please. You only need to say when to get off. Don't think there is much you can do about this and trust be it really starts to be annoying on a long journey.
5. Battery Life ...
FreeformFloppy 17.02.2009
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TomTom release on the market the newest version of their most popular GPS Navigation ... more
device the TomTom ONE v.3 the principle additions and improvements to this version are: Updated TeleAtlas 2007 Maps when you buy the device you will always ha...
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