Having removed the Miomap programme the TomTom Nav 6 installed quickly and easily and after selecting a few options, was up and running. The selection of only 2 UK voices was very disappointing, and neither really appealed.
Navigating to a post code is simple to set up, but I could not preview the route until the unit connected to satellites. I had to exit the navigation screen an select a view map icon to see anything. Typing in a town name is predictive, letting you select a town really easily.
Menu navigation is easy with nice large icons and a maximum of 6 to a screen.
Points of information were most frustrating with, for example, a hotel in Norwich I wanted to visit being listed only as a restaurant. Most attractions and landmarks locally to me are missing.
I could not see speed cameras until I was on the road.
The places database also let me down with two French villages I wanted to visit being unknown to TomTom and not shown on their street maps. Further investigation showed other village I had visited in Europe in the past to be missing.
I also found planning routes with way points unnecessarily complicated.
Navigator 6 can be updated using 'TomTom Home' on Windows PC. Version 1.5 can be downloaded for this purpose. However when connected, no map or speedcam updates were offered leaving me with rather old information. 'Home' suggested a new version could be downloaded which I tried. This was Version 2 which would not connect to my PDA. When I queried this with TomTom, they told me that version 2 does not work with Nav 6 and I should download version 1.5 which V2 had just deleted. Excellent response from TomTom but very frustrating that they update software to something that is not designed to work with Nav 6.
In the end I found the whole package rather frustrating and reverted to Miomap which has the same age maps.
I will probably now buy a dedicated Garmin 205W SatNav instead.
(+) Cheap compared to standalone, removes the need for seperate sat nav (-) No post code only search but this can be resolved with adding a house number of any house
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May 12th, 2009
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