portable GPS
Customer Review: Spaghetti menu with a penchant for wacky excursions
Where to begin on this thing? Basics probably … the windshield mount will not stick to the windshield :O ! Clean with alcohol, both windshield and cup and change in temperature the thing will come crashing down.. STRIKE ONE! I figured that if the unit was as good as the TOMTOM site makes it look I could get a better mount, but as everything else the devil is in the details so this detail shouldve told me I was in for trouble. But, what is it you want from a GPS? Get from me here to there efficiently and if something comes up , give me some alternatives. Well this is just the biggest piece of wasted technology I have ever seen in my life. First the user interface is DISMAL. To achieve some function you must navigate through up to 6 screens (there is a forward arrow but you can not go back) NICE engineering! Now to the basics .. I entred my home address as HOME and my work address as a favorite. (that was the best I could say about the unit .. it found both addresses to the t in record time. Now comes the troubles : I set a route from my home (in Queens NY) to work In Woodbury LI. First trouble it insits in asking me that there is an HOV line on this trip! Well knowing the shortest route from a built in Pioneer I have in another car I know there is not an HOV on this trip! But I skip ahead and accept this as an idiosyncratic thing. One nice feature you can see a line by line text detail of the trip, and here comes the surprise. This thing is sending me through a maze of a combination expressways and side streets, that not in zillion years Iwould even considered. (As I read on another comment this unit seems to have something going with the Whitestone Bridge!) well This not being my fave route. I press 4 keys to go back ask for another route. nothing, things get worse . the fastest and shortest trip is never displayed so I give up on HOME to WORK. Now I try WORK to HOME to see how this does. Guess what? it is even worse.! It sends me all the way through I495 towards Manhattan, gets me on the VanWyck Expressway , gets me into Kennedy airport , gets me out of Kennedy airport , makes me exit to a side street about 10 miles from my house and then back into the Belt Parkway , where it makes me exit 2 exits before I should’ve exit (17W) . I went through this time after time and not once did it even get close to giving me the shortest or fastest trips . Since I am setting this inside the garage with 5 satellites shooting down I took a chance and accepted one of the wacky trips, the moment I headed to the car and before I even connected the unit , it started giving me turn instructions !!!!! and once the instruction is give, this thing thinks you are where it thinks you should be. All in all a very nice web site with lots of goodies to spend you time and a lot of social networking but as a NAVIGATOR this thing is just horrendous and I have not even mentioned the 3D graphics .. awful! The “extra graphics are as if drawn by a 5 year old with a crayola (just try t change the icon for your car! How TOMTOM has developed such a loyal following is beyond comprehension. I can see people who are not technically oriented being frustrated, but I actually design electronic gear for a living and I was totally baffled as to WHO would release this product to the market. Oh , for those who may volunteer I had a defective unit .. I did not I tried 3! As an aside I stopped at Staples and tried a Magellan
Customer Review: Wow!
Luckily I saw a video review of all the top navigation systems and it was a toss up. So I went with the TomTom GO 920T. What a sweet little device. I love that I don’t have to reach for it do anything. It has a remote for that. This allowed me to mount it way down at the bottom of the windshield where it only blocks a small view of your hood. And the fact that you can give verbal queues to select a destination is great. You can also record your own voice for the common verbal command that it gives you for following a route. My biggest surprise was when the iPhone on my hip rang, I picked up the remote and pressed the button to answer, and I was talking hands free through the GPS to my iPhone. For short trips, I don’t even have to plug it in thanks to the built in battery. And features galore! If you are looking for a really great GPS with all the bells and whistles, this is it. You will absolutely love it.
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