Changing from TomTom710 to Nuvi 360t - advice please?

wireplay · Lifetime Member Joined: Jun 14, 2006 Posts: 24

Hi,

Thanks for everyone for your advice. I ran the Garmin next to my TomTom for a week driving in and around the London area.

I ended up sticking with the Tom Tom for the following reasons.

1. I find the Tom Tom interface personally easier to use.
2. The Tom Tom is faster at address entry and route location by quite a margin
3. The Tom Tom display is much clearer as to what is going on.
4. Although my Tom Tom does not annouce street names which the Garmin does, the pre-recorded voice is so much clearer when driving along with the radio on etc. I could simply not hear the Garmin!
5. Volume, the Tom Tom is nearly twice as loud as the Garmin.
6. Current speed is not shown on the garmin when a route is planned without going into another screen, so you cannot see your speed while looking at the map.

On the traffic front, I was impressed with the Garmin around London and I got lots of traffic data. I decided to trial Tom Tom traffic via GPRS though at the same time, and that was really good traffic data!

OK, there were some phantom alerts, BUT when you are in London, there are so many routes through, that going a different way, rarely makes a difference to the journey time, so avoiding a phantom traffic delay for me is not a major issue.

I compared Tom Tom traffic to my traffic Master box, and it alerted me to lots of things that the box failed to inform me about even on roads that were covered.

I may be wrong on this, but the Tom Tom can be set to automatically avoid traffic if a quicker route is found, I think on the Garmin you have to decide for yourself which is not ideal as you may not know how much longer an alternative route might take.

I suppose its a personal preference thing at the end of the day, but I just find the Tom Tom much more intutive which is very important when driving along.

Thanks to everyone who assisted me though, I did appreciate it.

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