Re: [OT] Anyone got a Tom Tom One?

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The 700 does all this .... powers from the car ... links with our
'phone, wherever it is buried in the luggage, gives hands-free etc ....
works very well .... and covers all of Europe, too ... apart from the
auto-on (altough it does have auto-off - when the ignition is turned off
- which is a damned nuisance) ...

... but I still prefer our five-year old DVO, in the other car ... the
Tom Tom accepts post codes (no doubt DVO do now) and is faster on
computing (no doubt DVO would match it now), but the brighter & much
bigger screen of the DVO, and the ability to quickly track ahead, is a
real advantage ... plus the Tom Tom is touch screen, which is a pain, if
you are trying to drive at the same time (and even if your are not, the
bumps in the road have a habit of arriving at just the wrong moment
rather too often) ... ... if all goes to plan, from putting in the post
code before you set off, to arriving at the destination, or if only a
simple re-plan is required en-route, the Tom Tom is OK ... but that's
the case, in our experience, only sometimes ... ... still, if you are
the driver, it's still better than a paper map ...

Chris



Paul Gordon wrote:

> The only other thing I can think of, that I don't believe anyone's
> mentioned yet is the docking cradle... - I don't believe the TTOne has
> one... - i.e. one that supplies power/external ant/voice mic
> connections to the unit when docked. When I get in my car, I just have
> to dock my GO500 on its shoe, and it immediately gets power (and
> automatically turns on as a result), and is connected to an external
> mic. for use as a hands-free kit. I believe the one doesn't have any
> such capability, and if you want to power it from the car you have to
> plug in it's adapter... the One's holder just being one to hold the
> physical unit, not provide it with any connections... - might be a
> little extra faff setting it up for use each time, - with the GO, I
> just plug and... GO...
>
> Paul G.
>
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>
> Chaps,
>
> I'm thinking of getting the wife a sat nav box, but as she won't be
> using it that much, I don't want to spend too much on it (save that
for
> new toys for myself!). Having looked through Tom Toms website, there
> doesn't seem to be much difference between the One and the 300 apart
> from the One has faster CPU and the 300 has a soft case. Is this
> correct? Anyone with any experience of using the TTOne? Any gotchas or
> problems?
>
> TIA,
> Lee




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