It is a very good, simple to use product. IÃ,Â'd like to use it in Brazil too but I canÃ,Â't buy brasilians maps for my tom tom. I should buy another one there. So I use in US. I use in my car, in my bike and I used it walking in Honolulu.
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.though in EIRE it sent me round the bend! I have been using the 3rd edition for a couple of years I guess and whilst using it in the US it has been brilliant. Fast to recalculate and I love the constantly improving list of POI's. Also, what could be better than having Eddie Izzard calling you a fool :) I bought the EIRE map and took it with us on our trip and the damn thing was rubbish at giving accurate directions. IN the end I switched it off. I know there has been a lot of road building there but we spent most of your time on the back roads and would still be digging the hire car out of ditches if we had paid attention to the TT. That small glitch aside I would recommend you buy this product and if you go to EIRE just rent a care with a GPS included (and hope it isn't a TT).
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I stood in line a year ago, for Black Friday in KY to buy the TT1 LE and haven't looked back. My TT1 was/is simple to use right out of the box. I also like the mapshare feature its great to share and receive updates for the maps and POIs.
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Make sure you either know where you're going or have map back up for where you're going on your first trip. Don't necessarily trust this. I received this months ago but was unable to use it and had to use it due to a family emergency this weekend. I traveled about 1000 miles, that I thankfully have traveled albeit, years before, and was sent on every goose chase imaginable to man! Once I caught on to the fact that it *didn't* know some "secret" shortcut and I got back on route, it would "go along" for 50 miles or so. An example, I had 250 miles +- between Houston and San Antonio, straight shot, I 10 West. As I was about 30 miles out of Houston on I10W, the voice says, "At the end of the road, turn right." Uh, I don't think 1-10 ends anywhere around Houston or Texas for that matter. When I went back through Houston East, it never made a peep! No lane changes, no nothing. I won't go into all the paths it took me on before I realized it was a completely goofy piece of plastic, but don't make the same mistake I did. All did turn out well though. Except I still have this damned Tom-Tom.
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I bought the Tom Tom because I'm constantly driving to weird places for work. It has been a brilliant investment. It gets excellent GPS reception (at least in San Antonio and the surrounding counties) and is very easy to use. The maps are also excellent.
I immediately started testing it before I started relying on it. The Tom Tom not only knew all the quickest ways around town, but actually surprised me with a couple of easier routes that I had missed somehow. It also seems to update for construction fairly quickly, which is just incredible. San Antonio has been undergoing a series of massive construction projects and nobody really knows when and where streets will get closed. Because the Tom Tom accepts user updates and allows them to be shared, it catches the construction very rapidly. Similarly, I had to run out to a new club in an emergency and couldn't find it on google maps. Apparently, neither could our local taxi companies which is why my client ended up needing me. My Tom Tom knew where this newly opened club was and got me there quickly when I wouldn't have been able to find it otherwise (club was closed and I couldn't get directions).
It took me about a week to get used to the computer's verbal directions, but the maps were precise enough that I could follow my car visually in real time until then. I have fooled the Tom Tom a few times. It takes a few seconds to change routes when I mess up and can't really tell whether I've changed lanes correctly or not. Sometimes that can be a problem, but usually only because I messed up first. It also can't tell what direction you're facing when not moving, but I'm not sure how any GPS device could. The only consistent problem is that it never seems to get street addresses exactly right. Once I learned to start looking at addresses a bit early, it wasn't a problem. So, with these minor caveats, I think the Tom Tom is outstanding.
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