TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver Available In Europe

Allen_EP · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 08, 2006 Posts: 41

The main thing here is that it does not work as it should. This could be for many reasons.

Maybe TT built a lemon.
Maybe the RDS is transmitted at lower power here in the UK.
Maybe TT know that if they make the receiver more sensitive it will just pick up more crap.
Maybe TT got it wrong trying to build one unit that could be sold all around the world thus saving building cost.
Maybe TT released the unit without sorting the bugs out of either the firmware or the software.
Maybe, maybe, maybe........

At the end of the day we all want a unit that will work. If we are lucky it can be sorted with either a firmware or software fix, we can live in hope.

MELennium · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:38 am Post subject:

Allen_EP wrote:

Allen_EP · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 08, 2006 Posts: 41

I take it you may agree Laughing Out Loud

MELennium · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 2:50 am Post subject:

yes but what is Tomtom going to do about it?
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RDS · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 09, 2006 Posts: 242

And so we go around again to my earlier point that the TT TMC receiver is currently being judged on it's performance in the UK without it apparently being officially released in this country by the manufacturer.

As yet no-one has been willing or able to answer the question as to whether the unit currently being sold by just a few online retailers has exactly the same spec as the unit that will eventually be sold in the UK.

Although I can understand their frustration surely until we know what the performance of the unit which will be generally sold within the UK is aren't those who have bought early just pre-judging the situation ? After all it maybe that TomTom will be offering an updated or uprated Mk2 receiver for the UK.

I'm not trying to act as an apologist for TomTom because if the TMC receiver which becomes generally available within the UK subsequently transpires to have a pretty poor performance I'll be more than happy to join others in criticising, however I prefer to wait to see what TomTom offer before wading in prematurely.

LesP2008 · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 10:46 am Post subject:

[quote="RDS"]And so we go around again to my earlier point that the TT TMC receiver is currently being judged on it's performance in the UK without it apparently being officially released in this country by the manufacturer.

So what about all the owners from overseas who jump in their cars to come and have a look at the UK?.
There they are with their new TomTom merrily sending them up farm tracks with a TMC that couldn't tell them it was blocked by a combined harvester because it couldn't lock onto classic FM,- Great!!.
Just for the record have TomTom said officially that this unit has NOT been released for the UK?.Could it be the big players are giving TomTom some heat over their past record, after all it is these guys who cop the initial flak, so refuse to sell it until proven?.
If these are grey imports then i can see your point however Elder has a good point that whatever the source they should work here.

Could it be all the electronic surveillance gear around that spies on us all the time, now if any signal can get through the magnetic field that load of crap kicks out then it must be worth getting Laughing

B0dger67 · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject:

I've sent mine back to its source in Germany now where I hope it will serve someone well.

As I said earlier in this thread, the packaging had an EU badge on it and last time I looked the UK is a member state. There is nothing else to indicate country-specific support, no documentation is supplied with the device and TomTom themselves told me there is only one version of the receiver.

IF TomTom have some issue with this thing in the UK why don't they just say so? If I'd had a sensible response that explained the issue a bit and indicated that something was being done about it I'd have stuck with it.

Instead, their helpdesk continue to state that it should work simply by plugging it in - it clearly doesn't and that was what annoyed me most.

Anyway, GPRS support is better than ever.... :D
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B0dger67 · Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

Allen_EP · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 08, 2006 Posts: 41

Will TT fix it.

I can say that while awaiting the arrival of my 710 I did start to panic as I kept reading all the problems 910 owners where having. Then the problems people were having when they upgraded to 6.11 and all the faults with the mounts so on and so on. When it arrived it had 6.11 on along with the new mount (TT still sent me a new one foc) the unit has never shown any of the faults I have read about and the mount has been fine. So it looks like the first lot of the line had the odd problem.
Maybe the same goes for the TMC lets hope that by the time it is released in the UK it will be a fully functional unit after all my 710 is.

One last thing, if and I say if TT do release a mkII for UK use will those who purchased units not meant for the UK have any claim against TT?

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