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Yo yo yo - RCE...
"Dan Krueger" wrote in message nk.net... 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 |