Advantages: Great features, Price
Disadvantages: None - Maybe battery life, restricted internal memory

...Tomtom Sat Nav? You want to read about its useful features and not the gimmicks. What's worth having and what's not? The difference between the Tomtom V2 and V3. Now I'm no expert, to be honest I was a first time buyer on a budget and only previously had experience of a friends Navman F20 before buying my own tomtom 10 days ago. I set out as you are probably doing now reading all the reviews on different makes and finding people talking more about battery life and suction ability rather than what it can actually do. Step one, it eventually hit me that the only way to avoid disappointment and really find out its full features is to go to the manufacturers website and download there product manual if its available. Four real must have features I would say on any Sat Nav worth having are: * Map scrolling, where you can use... Read review

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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 small and light, and the TMC receiver stays in my 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... Read review

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Advantages: Slimline, Light, Ease of use
Disadvantages: Battery life, camera, memory

...I had this phone as a birthday present to replace my old monochrome Nokia. It would be unfair to compare the 2 as they are chalk and cheese as mobile technology has moved on greatly in the period between purchasing the 2 phones. The v3 has all the features I required, namely mp3 ringtones, bluetooth and a camera. As I am not a heavy mobile phone user this was more than adequate for me. The camera is only a standard VGA (256k) camera which, compared to the latest camera phones is way out of date, but in the year I've had the phone I'm probably only ever used the camera 2 or 3 times anyway, so for me this is not a problem. It has a 4 times zoom which does give you a bit of flexibility if you need to get that close up piccy. The phone comes with a large selection of built in polyphonic ringtones, so of which are good, some... Read review

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Advantages: Actually knows where its going!
Disadvantages: Not enough Memory space, and no expansion card slot

...Previous experience of sat-navs had led me to believe they were quite pants, Oh how I was wrong. Christmas was coming up and the present I felt that my father should buy my mother was this little number. We Purchased the christmas cracker pack, which soon will not be available for obvious reasons. And it topped up to a total 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 an alternate route (Normally the more scenic and pretty route... Read review

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Advantages: Just Brilliant.
Disadvantages: Price, risk of theft, otherwise none.

..., you just need to use a small amount of common sense. You can add more POIs (Points of interest) just like you could with the older versions, these include everything from the location of all McDonalds to local hairdressers. An anti-theft idea is that you can only turn on your TomTom when you enter a 4 digit pin number, I admit I have not got round to this yet. I will keep you informed. The V3 uses software which needs either the address or postcode. There is also an address book where you can go directly to "favourites" saving you time. There are many more additional goodies in the new version, including the "Help" button, this asks you what you require & offers assistance, it gives basic first aid advice, provides routes to nearest hospital, gives information like phone numbers to pharmacies etc. Also on offer is a "Where am I... Read review

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Advantages: Route Planning, Position, distance to next instruction
Disadvantages: Old Maps, POI Warnings require add-on

...I purchased TomTom Navigator along with my HP iPAQ 2210 about 10 months ago. I travel about 18000 miles a year and this product has been a great asset. It saves me having to make route notes and keep referring to road atlases. For town driving it is even better as road maps do not show all local roads. I initially purchased version 3.0 but have now upgraded to v3.03 (427). I use it with a wired GPS receiver which simply plugs into the cigarette lighter in the car. In most cases you run the application and then bring up the Navigator Menu. You can then choose where you want to go; a recent location, an address, a favourite location or even a Point of Interest (more on these later). The address can be based on a post code or you can enter the town, street name etc yourself. Your ‘Home’ address can be saved as a key favourite place... Read review

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Advantages: Slim line, easy to use and very attractive
Disadvantages: honestly! nothing i can think of

...After many years of using all kinds and designs of mobile phones I had finally found a phone model I was happy with, Nokia, Nokia's are easy to use, and did exactly what i need it to do, which is why i thought I'd never find myself using another make mobile phone again, Until that was, that the Motorola RAZR V3 arrived. At first only available on contract, but eventually on pay as you go. Most girls/ women will tell you that their favourite colour is pink, so when the Motorola RAZR V3 in pink came out it was an essential and an every girls must have mobile phone. So I thought I'd treat myself, and buy myself one. Here is my opinion of the Motorola RAZR V3: Looks: = The Motorola RAZR V3 is available in black, Silver and pink, It gets its name RAZR because of its sleek and slimness, making it a fantastic phone... Read review

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Advantages: very stylish looks
Disadvantages: not all it is cracked up to be

...I have had my V3 for about 2 weeks and i am having mixed feeling about it. Mine is black that it is on contract with Vodafone. I use my mobile as my main work and home phone. I have the Anytime 75 stop the clock package. This means i get 75 mins free talktime and these mins can roll over. The stop the clock is a good package. Basically, it means between 7pm - 7am if i talk over 3 mins i will only get billed for 3 mins. I am contracted in for 18months on this deal. Prior to the V3 i had a motorola V525 for 2 years that was a good phone. But it looked dated so i got a free upgrade on my current contract to a black V3. Now, about the phone. Style wise it is flawless. It looks like a mobile Michealangelo carved. It is perfect in every detail. It is light at 95g, small and very thin. The TFT screen is 2", which is big and it shows... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to use, looks great, easy to slide in pocket!!!
Disadvantages: The battery doesnt last long enough and its really fragile!!!

...The motorola V3 is a really nice looking little phone and when they first hit the market they were a must have accesory for the fashion concious due to there long list of impressive features and there amazingly compact and sleek design, when they were first made available in the UK they were by far the most attractive and modern handset on the market and were the fashion accesory that everyone wanted to have. HANDSET OPTIONS The V3 handset was originally released in silver however they are now available in silver, black, pink, lilac, blue and a limited editon gold version, this was by far the most appealing version, it was designed by D&G and came with a gold phone charm attatched to it in the shape of the D&G logo. FEATURES The V3 has bluetooth connectivity, a camera, polyphonic ringtones, wap and is even capable... Read review

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Advantages: Slim & sleek design & user friendly.
Disadvantages: Lowish battery life.

...I have had the Razr V3X for approximately 2 weeks & while I haven't had experienced a 'full' experience of the phone, my first impressions are good. I exchanged my Samsung Z400i on Ebay for a pink V3X as I knew people who had got the phone & recommended it to me. At first I was quite sceptical as I had heard bad reviews of the Razr V3 in the past but I was assured that this phone was a vast improvement from the V3. I admit I initially brought the handset because of the pink design! The second I got the phone out of the box, I loved it! I'm used to Samsungs, so the operating system was slightly different to what I was used to, but it took me no time at all to find me way round the phone which goes to show the V3X is user friendly! The camera is a standard 2 MP but takes outstanding pictures. It has a flash which allows you to take... Read review

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