Which Tom Tom?

pendulum

Another vote for the TomTom One XL. I had mine a good few years now and suggested one for dad a year ago. It's under £60 for a refurb on eBay which is where I got dads from.

santer_2

Go 550 Live here

http://www.comet.co.uk/p/GPS-Navigation/buy-TOM-TOM-GO-550-LIVE-GPS-Navigation/591319?

Go 750 Live here

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.207-7742.aspx

Go Live 950 here

http://www.handtec.co.uk/product.php/2358/tomtom-go-950-live---free-12-months-live-services

With the 550 and 750 being the same price, but the 950 having 12 months of updates, it probably is the better option

Mine is a Go 950 Live World and the best bit for me is lane guidance, which leaves you to look at the road and not overhead or roadside signs.

They told me fuel prices are too difficult to keep up with and they will probably stop providing updates, which doesn't bother me as it often sent me to a petrol only station despite LPG being set as default fuel.

You might want to look at beanbag dash mounts to avoid the windscreen sat nav advertisement marks

Probably best not to set the home address and you can set a password to operate it if you like

withabix

TomTom Go 750 here:

TomTom Go 750 at Amazon

Also has pull-downs on that page for other models.

A._Badger

I have a stick-on Garmin (I forget which model) that is acceptable - but no better than that. The mapping is poor, in my view, with a lot of ambiguity about what's a real turning and what's a bend in the road, poor choice of routes at times and overall leaving the distinct feeling that whoever did the mapping didn't have much of feel for actually driving on English country roads (I live in a rural area).

My wife has a couple of handheld Garmins (a Colorado and a Legend) and these clearly use the same maps - we've run them at the same time as my in-car model - with the same poor results.

In Garmin's defence, I should say their customer service is superb but they really do need to get to grips with their source of UK data.

Paradigm

I'm using a TomTom go 720 which I've had for a few years & things couldn't be simpler, before that I had a garmin which worked Ok but wasn't as user friendly but was ok once used to it.

As a comparison, the company I work for has just bought some Clarion sat navs & you need a degree in programming to enter the destination.

My own preference is TomTom, dead easy straight out of the box! The downside with TomTom is that every "add on" is a paid for extra.. traffic, speed cam alerts, map updates etc

cajef

Another TomTom recommendation, I have the XL Live IQ Routes Edition bought from Amazon and came with 12 months subscription to live services, find it very easy to use, do like the live services and connect to computer for updates, could not be easier.

It was on offer when I bought it and now notice the price has gone up.

property.advert

I have a Tom Tom Live 1005 and you can just google for something, like a McDonalds in the town you are near or a garage a few miles down the road, all without any idea of their address or even name in many cases. You can feed updates up and receive them live. The live cost is maybe £40 or so per year, included in year 1 but I'm expecting some discounts. Large screen, magnetic clip so simple to remove and the best out there when I bought it a few months ago.

taffy056

Mark_Hewitt wrote: »

I have an iPhone 4 with TomTom and it's excellent! You get free regular map updates too.

I have an iPhone 4 as well and it works very well, it had a recent update but I travel a 1000 miles a week and find some of the maps are out of date, for example the kingsway in Swansea has not been updated, despite being more than 3 years since it changed.

The maps is important and it is a bit frustrating when years down the line it's still not updated!

DaveG247

Anyone know if the one from Tesco would include the 1 years free live service?

Edit just notices its out of stock wonder if they'll get any more in.

Mark_Hewitt

taffy056 wrote: »

I have an iPhone 4 as well and it works very well, it had a recent update but I travel a 1000 miles a week and find some of the maps are out of date, for example the kingsway in Swansea has not been updated, despite being more than 3 years since it changed.

The maps is important and it is a bit frustrating when years down the line it's still not updated!

I would imagine they are the same maps that proper standalone units get. As the last map update on the iPhone was only a couple of months ago.