| | TomTom ONE, 3rd Edition 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator |  | Brand: TomTom
Discount Category: CE
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 Tom Tom GPS Review January 6, 2009
excellent product, bought as gift for daughter who's always on the road. she loves it.
If you want a beginner GPS, this is what you need January 4, 2009
My wife and I just got home with this device, and we are amazed. We feel this will greatly simplify and enhance our travel experiences.
If you are already a GPS user, you may want something fancier. So far I have found that you can only plan one point of interest in a trip and I have found some of my favorite stores, mostly small or specialty businesses, that are not included with the points of interests. Since the device is inexpensive, it fails to offer an SD slot for more memory. It also cannot play mp3s, display photos, or anything else that is fancy.
For basic or beginning users, purchase this unit. Allow me to espouse the great things about this device.
SIMPLICITY The Tom Tom One had the easist to use navigation menu of any device I looked at. The menu is ran completely with the touch screen and my wife and I can both use it with ease. When you first turn the unit on it asks you to set your home address and choose your settings. A cheaper version that my father received for Christmas took him an hour to figure out! The screen is extremely visible with vibrant colors and great brightness. It locks onto a GPS signal almost instantly. Setting a route to a destination is simple. If you are wanting to return to your home, you need simply press 2-3 buttons on the screen. To get to a point from your current location, simply add a few steps by entering an address or choosing a point of interest.
FUNCTIONALITY If you have a favorite store, friend, family or other location, you can easily add the location to your favorites with a name of your choosing and that makes sense to you. If you have ever added a Internet site to your web browser favorites, you can do this and love it. The internal memory contains tons of points of interest from hospitals to restaraunts to shopping centers that you can easily search. You can search for these by points nearest your location, points along your route, or points near your destination. The voice prompt is loud and easy to hear. You can even set the volume to increase as your driving speed increases. The settings allow you to customize the screen to show what you want to see such as a compass, points of interest, remaining time and remaining distance.
As much as I love this device, I caution anyone to be aware that this device will meet all of travel needs. Browsing a map is not easy, so I will probably still print and study Mapquest maps of any area at which I will be staying. If you want to visit multiple locations on a trip, you may still need to make a list of addresses you want to visit. Since I don't trust the device's list of points of interest to be as comprehensive as I would like, I will definitely google things I want to do in an area.
However, it will be very nice now to locate gas stations or restaraunts that are near our hotel or along our route. As a hater of driving in big cities, I also think we will be more adventerous and willing to venture into large metro areas.
So in summary, you couldn't do much better for an inexpensive and easy to use GPS device.
 Good Software, Bad Maps, Horrible Hardware and Support January 1, 2009
This is my first product review ever, so I must be pretty mad. This GPS has a nice software interface, but the maps are horribly out of date. Sometimes I will follow a highway and the map does not even recognize that the highway is there (location: Texas). About one year into using this device it started having trouble with the LCD screen. The screen would be almost white at startup and then eventually warm up to where I could use it. After talking to customer support they told me to update the unit. Well, it would not update. So they told me to format it. It would not format. So the unit is one month out of warranty and it was functional when I called customer support. Now it does not work. At least Microsoft admits their errors and fixes the Xbox.
BUY GARMIN. I have one and for the most part it is infinitely better. It gets me to my destination!!!!!
Excellent Device December 28, 2008
If you need a simple to use vehicle GPS, the ONE, is the way to go. I really like the features, and the ability to increase your features beyond simple navigation, such as Traffic Finder, Fuel Prices, Security Cameras, etc. These additional features are not free, but hey, the good things never are.
I would recommend this for both neophytes and veterans of GPS usage.
Very Good December 27, 2008
This product is very reliable battery life could be better. I would like if you could purchase a larger internal battery. Clear screen I love the add ins.I have used this item for a year know and give it a thumbs up.
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