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

"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
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RCE wrote:

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

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

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 01:09:30 -0500, "RCE" wrote:


"Dan Krueger" wrote in message
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RCE wrote:

"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
...

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


Did you mount it to your windshield? Is it removable and remountable in
another auto?
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'Til next time,

John H

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:07:18 -0500, JohnH wrote:


Did you mount it to your windshield? Is it removable and remountable in
another auto?

Just to make you aware, in some states, mounting anything to your
windshield, or your rear-view mirror, is a ticket, impairing driver's
vision, or some such nonsense.

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:42:40 -0500, thunder wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:07:18 -0500, JohnH wrote:


Did you mount it to your windshield? Is it removable and remountable in
another auto?

Just to make you aware, in some states, mounting anything to your
windshield, or your rear-view mirror, is a ticket, impairing driver's
vision, or some such nonsense.

The thing comes with a windshield mount, which is why I was asking. After
going back to the site I see its a suction cup mount which would indicate
its removable.
--
'Til next time,

John H

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***** Have a Spectacular Day! *****
******************************************

thunder wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 09:07:18 -0500, JohnH wrote:



Did you mount it to your windshield? Is it removable and remountable in
another auto?


Just to make you aware, in some states, mounting anything to your
windshield, or your rear-view mirror, is a ticket, impairing driver's
vision, or some such nonsense.

That should be interesting since there are so many people adding GPS and
satellite radio receivers to their car's windshields. I guess my state
is not one of them since they sell windshield mounted transceivers for
the toll system.

Dan

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:42:40 +0000, Dan Krueger wrote:

That should be interesting since there are so many people adding GPS and
satellite radio receivers to their car's windshields. I guess my state is
not one of them since they sell windshield mounted transceivers for the
toll system.

Now that you mentioned it, they do here also. To be honest, I don't know
of anyone who has been ticketed for "impaired vision". I only mentioned
it, as I was pulled over this week. The cop saw my radar detector
attached to the windshield and said doing so was illegal. He also
mentioned anything hanging from a rear-view mirror was also illegal.
"Impaired Vision", he called it. Hell, who knew? Thankfully, he didn't
write any tickets.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:42:40 +0000, Dan Krueger wrote:

That should be interesting since there are so many people adding GPS and
satellite radio receivers to their car's windshields. I guess my state
is
not one of them since they sell windshield mounted transceivers for the
toll system.

Now that you mentioned it, they do here also. To be honest, I don't know
of anyone who has been ticketed for "impaired vision". I only mentioned
it, as I was pulled over this week. The cop saw my radar detector
attached to the windshield and said doing so was illegal. He also
mentioned anything hanging from a rear-view mirror was also illegal.
"Impaired Vision", he called it. Hell, who knew? Thankfully, he didn't
write any tickets.

Cops never complain about my eye patch. Arrrrgghh.

RCE

thunder wrote:

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 00:42:40 +0000, Dan Krueger wrote:


That should be interesting since there are so many people adding GPS and
satellite radio receivers to their car's windshields. I guess my state is
not one of them since they sell windshield mounted transceivers for the
toll system.


Now that you mentioned it, they do here also. To be honest, I don't know
of anyone who has been ticketed for "impaired vision". I only mentioned
it, as I was pulled over this week. The cop saw my radar detector
attached to the windshield and said doing so was illegal. He also
mentioned anything hanging from a rear-view mirror was also illegal.
"Impaired Vision", he called it. Hell, who knew? Thankfully, he didn't
write any tickets.

Selective enforcement is my guess. A radar detector works against them.

Dan

"JohnH" wrote in message
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Did you mount it to your windshield? Is it removable and remountable in
another auto?
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'Til next time,

John H


Yes, and yes.

RCE