RCE wrote:

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
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RCE wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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You bought that Tom-Tom GPS system right?

What's your personal opinion?


I like it. Easy to use and very intuitive once you learn the basics.
I use the cheapie - TomTom 300 (I think) with the SD memory card.

I just bought Mrs.E. the TomTom 700 with the mini hard disk drive. She
loves it.

It's a great little GPS - probably similar to the similarly priced
Garmin, but the TomTom has a bit of a sense of humor to it. You can
program things like fuel stations within a programmable distance and
assign it a sound. I use a cow, going MOOOOOO.....

I used it to travel to Norfolk last week. It walked me right up to the
front door of my kid's house on a government housing development.

Has a few quirks, but nothing that common sense does not correct.

RCE

How do they handle updates? Free or by subscription?

Dan


I think .... they are free for a year, but don't hold me to that. You get a
card - like a credit card - and the GPS somehow will connect to your cell
phone (bluetooth?). There are other travel services you can subscribe to.
I haven't used any of this yet and probably never will. It's interesting
though - when I first bought it back in November, I tried entering my son's
address in Norfolk and it didn't have the street name in the stored memory.
I assumed this was because it is a military housing area. Yet, when I drove
to his house from Florida that month, it showed the road on the display.
Last week when I drove down there again I tried putting his address in as a
destination before I left and it recognized it and calculated a route right
to his front door. How it updated the data, I have no idea.

Those that are looking for a heavy duty sophisticated GPS system won't be
satisfied with the TomTom. It's beauty is it's simplicity and ease of use.
You can set it for a "3D" display or a "2D" and display the map in several
orientations.... North up, direction of travel, etc.

RCE



I have the Garmin c330 and it has worked very well. I looked at the Tom
Tom briefly but went with the Garmin since I have owned three of them
for boating and one that resides on the little woman's bicycle.

That update is interesting. These all use government GPS satellites so
there must have been another way for that info to get into the machine.

Dan