I've only had this tomtom a few days & it is brilliant. I'm going on holiday to italy later on this year so i can't wait to use it over there. Using it in the uk has never got me lost and the mapshare function is fantastic. My dad borrowed my tomtom one xl europe off me yesterday as he was buying a car in london.
It got him there no problem and my dad didn't get lost once. I had a little trouble using my 2gb sd card in the tomtom but tomtom sent me an e-mail and told me what to do in simple, easy, step by step way. Word of warning - the tomtom one xl europe will only accept up to a 2gb sd card. On the whole it is a brilliant piece of kit.
Very pleased with this item, have only used the uk maps so far. Looking forward to using the usa maps for an impending trip. Also came loaded with australia and new zealand maps. Decided to buy this via amazon as having monitored auction sites they, were invariably more expensive due to a bidding frenzy just before the close of auction.
Also less consumer protection. Disappointed with the mount supplied as will not fit my car windscreen. This is not a fault of the mount but, due to the steep angle of the screen. Therefore have decided to buy a non slip dashboard mount at £5. All in all a very good service from the retailer, would and have recommended to friends and family.
Pros
- Takes the hassle out of navigating unfamiliar roads
- Good but beware of the complications of adding maps
- Great SatNav let down by poor accessories
- Fantastic bit of kit!
- Tom Tom one XL europe
- Not perfect but does the job
Cons
- Don' buy a Tom Tom!
- Gets you there, when its working.
- Tomtom one XL Europe
- Just too inacurate
Negative Review of TomTom ONE XL V1 Satellite Navigation System - Europe
Features of TomTom ONE XL V1 Satellite Navigation System - Europe
- Plug & Go - works straight out of the box
- Large 4.3" high quality touchscreen
- Easy-to-use navigation: with user-friendly menu and TomTom's award winning software
- Portable, light and easy to handle
- Find your location quicker than ever before with TomTom's free QuickGPSfix software
- Fast route calculation and re-routing if roadblocks occur
- Large choice of routes - including quickest, shortest, and avoiding toll roads and congestion charge areas
- Convenient postcode navigation: quick, accurate destination selection from full UK and NL postcodes
- Easy access to traffic information: via optional accessory TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver or a subscription to TomTom Traffic
- Crystal clear 3D or 2D graphics for perfect viewing day and night
- Clear spoken instructions in in your own language (36 languages to choose from and 55 different voices available)
- Ready for TomTom PLUS services
- Includes TomTom HOME software - the essential tool to keep your TomTom up to date
- Millions of Points of Interest pre-installed such as hotels, restaurants, petrol stations, museums etc.
Product Description, The TomTom ONE XL has everything you need to make your trip safer, more relaxed and more fun. At its heart lies TomTom's award-winning plug-and-go navigation software, but the new 4.3 inch wide high-quality touchscreen makes navigating even easier. Your ONE XL has a pre-installed database of safety camera locations in the UK. This database is fully integrated in your ONE XL navigation software and alerts to warn you when there is a fixed safety camera on your route. There's a large choice of route option
Box Contains,
Great Satnav Let Down by Poor Accessories. Having upgraded from navigator 5 on a pda, i am familiar and very happy with the tomtom product. Also no longer having to fiddle with an external bluetooth gps device is great. As a lot of other reviewers have pointed out, the accessories are poor. I would expect at a minimum:- a home charger- a carry case (even a nylon one would have been useful)- a windscreen mount that actually stays attached to the windscreen. The one provided is cheap rubbish, and is more of a safety hazard as it decides to detach itself in mid journeyso great product, but you will need to shell out at least another 40-50 pounds to get the necessary extras. .
Tomtom-Tastic. I bought this at the channel tunnel dixons before going to paris this week, a i wasn't looking forward to driving round the periphique with one eye on the map between my legs and one eye on the lunatic pierres dodging between the cars on their scooters. I took it out the box on the train and it was ready to go when i got to france. It did a great job most of the time and made the whole experience more pleasant. The screen resolution is not as good as on my nokia 9300i (which i have tomtom uk on) but is easy enough to read. It did try to make me turn right into a block of flats a couple of times but soon sorted itelf out by calculating another route when i went straight on. It got me to the exhibition site i was going to and back and forth to my hotel with no fuss. It would have 5 stars but i think it is a little mean of tomtom not to incude a case or mains charger. I haven't looked at other satnav units so i have nothing to compare it to, but so far it has done what i want it to do. In summary this unit provides easy to use navigation straight out of the box with a simple user interface. .
Fantastic Bit of Kit!. We recently booked to go to germany to visit some of the many christmas markets around the patch. Not wanting any domestic strife we decided to buy a tom tom xl europe to help us on our way. All i can say about this decision is that it was the right thing to do. I took delivery and quickly checked it out the day before we left the uk without issue. On arrival in germany we collected the car turned on the tom tom selected germany entered our destination left the airport car park and one hour later - hey presto - arrived where we planned to be!in fact the only time we ended up somewhere we didn't quite anticipate was because of user error! yup, i hate to say it but we missed the fact that there are two rudesheim's in germany! however, once we realised this fact and reprogrammed 'fanny' (our pet name for the voice of jane on the tom tom) she led us right there!! easy.
Product Info
- Item Weight: 440 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 794 g
- Batteries 1 Lithium ion batteries required.
- Item model number: 1XL0001
- ASIN: B000PS68ZS
Conclusion of TomTom ONE XL V1 Satellite Navigation System
I bought a tom tom one xl with uk and western europe maps in july 2007, and i can thoroughly recommend it. A word of warning about the accompanying pc software: i nearly killed my unit whilst updating the main operating system on it. I had connected it to my pc prior to lending it to a friend - the software said that there were ephemeral updates (those are updates on what parts of the earth each satellite is orbiting), and also a newer version of the main program. I applied the updates after making space but when i tried restoring the temporarily-removed maps etc. My main gripe is the rather frustrating procedure to add additional maps which is not sufficiently documented by tomtom (i had to search a few forums before i figured it out).
I bought the us western region map from the tomtom website which was a 200mb download, so you would think that a 1gb sd card would be sufficient for using it on the tomtom xl. The tomtom xl out of the box has a 1gb internal memory which is shipped totally 'full' with the western europe map and the tomtom software itself, so understandably you can't add any maps to the 'core memory'. So the solution is to add memory by way of an sd card, but the tomtom cannot use an sd card and internal memory at the same time, so in short if you want to add any additional maps to this unit you need to purchase an sd card with the capacity for your additional maps plus 1gb for the existing map and os. Once you've bought your 2gb sd card and you have your new map(s) downloaded to your pc you need to follow the steps below (best to switch the unit off and on after each step). Make sure you've installed the latest version of the tomtom home software on your pc before you begin.
Connect the tomtom to your pc (without the sd card inserted) and 'backup' the unit to your pc using the tomtom home software (takes about 20min). Insert your sd card into the tomtom and 'restore' your backup from the pc back to the unit, again using the tomtom home software (takes about 20mins). These first two steps basically write the contents of the internal memory on to the sd card. Finally click 'add maps' in the tomtom home software on your pc and hopefully it should take you to a screen showing the additional map(s) you've bought and downloaded. You can then add these to the tomtom unit from here.
During use the unit won't automatically switch between your maps, so in my case when i want to use my us map i need to 'switch over' in the unit preferences. Having upgraded from navigator 5 on a pda, i am familiar and very happy with the tomtom product. The screen resolution is not as good as on my nokia 9300i (which i have tomtom uk on) but is easy enough to read. It would have 5 stars but i think it is a little mean of tomtom not to incude a case or mains charger. Not wanting any domestic strife we decided to buy a tom tom xl europe to help us on our way.
On arrival in germany we collected the car turned on the tom tom selected germany entered our destination left the airport car park and one hour later - hey presto - arrived where we planned to bein fact the only time we ended up somewhere we didn't quite anticipate was because of user error. I then re-read several of them and realised that there were just as many positive comments as there was negative for all brands and so decided to take the plunge and bought a tomtom one xl europe. The internal memory is almost full and, as others have said, there are therefore problems updating the application. Some of the problems with updates are clearly caused by the internal 1gb memory being >99. I got around this by installing a 2gb sd memory card, which only cost £5-7, and running everything; system, maps etc.
Instructions: first install the tomtom home2 software - turn off automatic updates (before you connect the tt) - connect the device and do a full back-up to your disk. Then copy the entire contents of the original backup folder onto the sd card - say using a multicard reader - make sure to keep the file structure note: you cannot do this if the sd card is installed in the tt. Insert the sd card into the tt hopefully it should boot from the sd card, connect it to your pc and turn back on autoupdates on home2 and say yes to all the updates. These will be installed on the sd card. Then you are up and running with all the updates done and no memory space issues - of course the sd card then stays in the tt for good.
Occasionally proposes to take you down one-way streets or doesn't know there is no right turn allowed (but catches up when you do the legal thing) - so maps not 100% correct. I think some of these negative reviews have been unfair to the tomtom xl; i have nothing but praise for it. I have always checked the route offered by any unit against a map, and will sometimes alter the route planning criteria to be more effective as required. The tomtom software is simple to use with the clear touch screen. It does have a sd card slot for extra maps.
I prefer to use a permanent dashboard hard-wired mount for my unit, although the suction cup mount and cables seem perfectly adequate for many applications. We received the tom tom about a week ago and can't believe how easy to use the system is, its connects to the computer easily and downloads every update you need without fuss. The only drawback, and this is very slight, is that it comes with a promotion card which, i assume, allows you to access items on the tom tom site that you otherwise could not. I've only had this tomtom a few days & it is brilliant.My dad borrowed my tomtom one xl europe off me yesterday as he was buying a car in london.
I had a little trouble using my 2gb sd card in the tomtom but tomtom sent me an e-mail and told me what to do in simple, easy, step by step way. Word of warning - the tomtom one xl europe will only accept up to a 2gb sd card. Also i can't understand how some could not easily unclip tomtom whilst leaving mount in place. The whole mount is flexible and can be pulled forward in order to slide out tomtom. As with all tomtoms i've seen one's the instructions are clear, recalculating routes is automatic if you miss your turning, and the map upgrade method online is easy, and includes safety cameras which is always handy, as they seem to be everwhere.
I have just upgraded from the original tomtom one and i am very pleased so far. Quickly locates signal from satellites and even locates a signal inside my house, where the old tomtom one could not. I was very surprised that the device has no sd card though, the maps are built in. There is an sd slot though which means i can buy more maps and run them side by side, or allow for more downloads. I have the europe version, so this may slow it down, but it does seem to take longer to find a route on a long journey, but on that same note, it seems to find better routes sometimes too, taking off a few minutes sometimes, might be the new maps maybe.
Don't Be Put Off . Having read some of the very negative review of the tt-xl-eur i was almost put off buying one. However i took the chance and i have to say so far (2 weeks) i have been mostly impressed. I have had no problems with "unable to find satellites". Some of the problems with updates are clearly caused by the internal 1gb memory being >99. 5%% full - simply there is not enough free memory to do the upgrades (or to install add-ons). I got around this by installing a 2gb sd memory card, which only cost £5-7, and running everything; system, maps etc. On that (the internal memory is no longer used when you install the sd). Instructions: first install the tomtom home2 software - turn off automatic updates (before you connect the tt) - connect the device and do a full back-up to your disk. Then make another copy the resulting back-up folder somewhere else and rename it - this is your insurance against losing the files in the future for whatever reason (e. G. If you lose the sd card). Then copy the entire contents of the original backup folder onto the sd card - say using a multicard reader - make sure to keep the file structure note: you cannot do this if the sd card is installed in the tt. Insert the sd card into the tt hopefully it should boot from the sd card, connect it to your pc and turn back on autoupdates on home2 and say yes to all the updates. These will be installed on the sd card. Then do another backup - this will overwrite the original backup; hence the need to have another copy of the original backup in another location. Then you are up and running with all the updates done and no memory space issues - of course the sd card then stays in the tt for good. Pros: mostly everything - nice bright/large display, good menu structure, no unnecessary voice commands etc etc. Mounting brackets sticks well. Cons:tt cannot be removed from mounting bracket while it is stuck to the windscreen - you have to remove the whole suction assembly; due to the slope of the screen. Typing on the keyboard (e. G. Postcode/address) can be tricky with my big fingers. Occasionally proposes to take you down one-way streets or doesn't know there is no right turn allowed (but catches up when you do the legal thing) - so maps not 100% correct. .
Not Perfect But Does the Job. The sat nav works out of the box and has a fairly easy menu system - easy to get the hang of it without reading the manual. It works well while you are driving and has guided me through many european cities. Map accuracy is a bit variable: sometimes it surprises me with the detail of off-road tracks, and sometimes it is out of date. The internal memory is almost full and, as others have said, there are therefore problems updating the application. I found if you back-up the device and delete the post-code data it will then has enough free memory to update the application correctly - the post-codes then have to be reinstalled. Not the slickest of updates! despie these niggles, very please with the way it works. .
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