TomTom Announce Launch of TomTom ONE

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:09 pm Post subject:

In the TomTom V5 Maps, there are 2 versions for each country.

There is, for example, the Great_Britain Map (which covers GB only), and the Great_Britain-Plus Map, which covers at Street Level GB plus the Major Roads of Western Europe.

Therefore if you had the Germany Plus Map, you could travel from GB and through France, on the Major Roads, and then at the German border you would have Street Level navigation.

All the Countries in Western Europe have a Basic and a Plus Map.
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inthe128 · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that, explains it well, much like my old Garmin, I just load the places I am going and the basemap gets me there, then I have the fine detail of the place I visit. This and the ability to use this program with a Mac seems to point to a good deal to have a Tom Tom One

Buffy Beagle · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

Thanks, OldBoy, that's very clear. That sounds like an advantage which version 5 maps have over version 3.

We're still not clear why one can't seamlessly navigate between countries if one has the necessary maps on a large capacity SD card. TomTom have obviously done the necessary programming in order to get it working on the GO 700. Have they left that part of the code out of the program included on the ONE?

Hugh

zel · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 4

Surely TomTom will have to install the new SiRF Star III chipset into their 500 and 700 Go version after reading this forum and others SiRF Star III seems to be a dramatic improvement!

Any news on this yet? as i'm going to be looking at buying a tomtom go 700 in a couple of weeks.

MarkHewitt · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:36 am Post subject:

SL33PYH34D · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 10:47 am Post subject:

smytho · Lifetime Member Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 18

Hi Folks

Just joined so hello to everyone.

Thought I would let you know the TomTom One is selling at Argos for £223.99

Smytho

Darren · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:31 pm Post subject:

Homer · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 4:52 pm Post subject:

Great for the end user, but these guys selling this product at such a silly low price is Devaluing an excellent product into the realms of Bargain Basement, and the Independants that currently support the market with specialist knowledge and a genuine interest in the products.

All that this will do is drive the independents into the sea and hurrah another market dominated by another faceless corporation, and once they have wasted the sat nav market. Here's how to test my theory. Drop into your local Argos, Tesco's, Halfords (especially Halfords) and ask one of the salespeople behind the counter for some advice on your sat nav system, I am sure this is the look you will get 8O

Whilst as an end user I think that the price drops are great from a consumer point of view, take a step back and take a look at the bigger picture, take a look at the right hand side of this web page, I dont see Argos or one of the High Street's sponsoring these pages, and the reviews section is very much supported by the same people...

Once the bubble has burst on the Sat Nav scene and you can pick one of these up for £49.99, The hig street will not be interested and walk away from all of this, and do you think that there will be anyone left to pick up the pieces?......

Darren · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 5:04 pm Post subject:

I couldn't agree more and whenever I am asked by a novice where they should shop I point them in the direction of a specialist who can provide the necessary support.

If there is a £5 or 10 difference then it is easy to encourage people in this way but assuming this Argos offer is genuine then no-one is going to spend and additional £55 for support they may or may not need.
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tweety · Occasional Visitor Joined: Nov 30, 2005 Posts: 46

Thanks, i just got my price matched at staples as i got ONE on saturday so was rather upset seeing this but since they gave me 110% of the difference i got it for 218.39,,,now beat that !

BTW log time user first time poster....hello all.

DriveSmart · Regular Visitor Joined: Sep 10, 2005 Posts: 60

This is a lesson to be learned from,If you deal with any retailers they will dump your price,To them its about shifiting a box at any cost.
The only chance you have is like Sony or Microsoft where they give the retailer around 3-5% margin max this stops them from dumping the price as they have no margins to do this.
The trend as you can see from people like Dell and Bose is that they will not supply any retailers as they do not want their products to get dumped.
What I found totally disgusting to read on the BBC website yesterday was Dixons(DSG) warning people to be wary of buying electrical products from internet sellers as they have a high chance of going bust and you will end up loosing.
What they ment is that small internet resellers are killing their sales and they will say anything they can to stop people from buying form these guys.
Tell me if any employee working in store in Dixons knows his arse from his elbow regarding any Navigation products in depth?
Classic example was a guy went into Comet to buy a Drivesmart system,The stupid guy on the shop floor told him it would only work in conjunction with a PDA! Evil or Very Mad

The guy called us up and ended up buying directly from us! Laughing Out Loud

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roadnobler · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jul 15, 2005 Posts: 17

well the company I work for wouldnt buy any sat nav from argos ,no matter what they charged for it.
Our engineers were all recently equipped with sat nav from one of pocket gps sponsors, after a trial unit bought from Hmmmm.cough hal... had a glitch,the muppets at hal.. were utterly useless no back up whatever.
Yep the deal at argos, will no doubt be snapped up,but people will learn the hard way that from argos, they aint going to get any help when the inevitable glitch crops up.

carl_w · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 13, 2004 Posts: 242

Apparently it's 20% off all Satnav at Argos at the moment. Garmin i3 is down to 159.99 (199.99 list price) too. I think it's worth a punt buying from there, as you get to try it out for 16 days and return it if you don't like it. If the "inevitable glitch" crops up, you have Tomtom or Garmin support. Personally I've had no problems with my GO, and when my BT GPS gave up the ghost I just posted it back to Tomtom for a replacement.

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