TomTom One XL review

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July 21, 2007

Posted by: Edward McMillan

"All style, no substance"

What I like:

It does work

What I don't like:

Slow recalculation. Poor in cities. Poor mapping.

Review:

I've used Sat navs since the Tomtom Go first came out. This One XL recalculates routes slowly or it might recalculate reasonably but the positioning is poor, which means it takes time to pick up when one has overshot the indicated turn. The mapping is very poor if one travels extensively, as I do. The mapping often has difficulty in differentiating between roads that enter a main carriageway and junctions on that main carriageway. In other words, there are too many turn rights and lefts where in actual fact this is not the case. The other evening on the A20 (London) the unit indicated a continuous clear road when in fact there was a major crossroads, and had I not being paying attention I might have been involved in an accident. Nothing is perfect but I feel that more attention should be paid to mapping, rather than having someone pour over virtual maps and second guess routes as if they were 100 miles in the air.
Buy an antenna if you visit the city, in Central London it drove me mad by recalculating constantly.
As for me, I took it back for a refund. I'm looking at the Garmin Nuvi 670, the Navman N60i and the Tomtom Go 720.
In conclusion, I think that most people would find the One XL okay but it's pricey.