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| Hectorsgaf wrote: | Fingers crossed for you. never heard a good word said about them.
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Over the last few years, I have spent well over £5000 with them, buying cameras and items, never had a post go missing, and always on time with posting.
Maybe I'm just lucky, but would be happy to order from them again.
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Dennis, have you ordered your 1 and 6 for back up.  |
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| GO-GO-910 wrote: | | Dennis, have you ordered your 1 and 6 for back up. |
Sorry? You've lost me (I'm not buying a 930) (yet) (today).
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Graeme2812
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| vicky wrote: | OK
Just got my shipping email from Pixmania,
So Called them and they confirmed its shipped today for Delivery by Friday |
Fingers are crossed for you Vicky!
Could the fact you are receiving it from France and not from a distributor within the UK have anything to do with earlier than expected availability?
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LesP2008
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| Today, next week? With your luck you will need a few, i'm sure. |
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:08 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | Sorry? You've lost me (I'm not buying a 930) (yet) (today). |
No, because ONE wouldn't be enough 
You're waiting for your own personal shipment of a pallet load direct from TomTom
Isn't it about time you got a larger van with a bigger windscreen for more TomToms?
I wonder if the 930T comes with and improved Dalek voice for you 
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:09 am Post subject: |
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Aha, now we all know the way to San Jose
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DennisN
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:39 am Post subject: |
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| GPS_fan wrote: |
Aha, now we all know the way to San Jose |
Hmm. If you follow through to his review of IQ routing, one example shown gives 354 mile journey at average speed of 61mph. I dunno what speed limits they have over there, but over here with 70 max on motorways, I struggle to achieve an average of 60mph over 5 3/4 hours.
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GPS_fan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 10:22 am Post subject: |
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| DennisN wrote: | | I struggle to achieve an average of 60mph over 5 3/4 hours. |
Yeah but no but yeah but don't the algorithms assume that you will be travelling at the MAXIMUM speed permissible within each speed limit without allowing time for junctions, traffic etc.
Thus, if you were to plan a journey from K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M to Glasgow or Edinburgh along motorways only, your plethora of TomToms will assume that you will be travelling at a constant speed of 70mph - because that is the speed limit for motorways.
Alas, your countless TomToms won't allow for traffic, roadworks, pee breaks etc, hence your average speed will be LOWER than that indicated by your innumerable TomToms.
Alternatively, there could be a conspiracy theory and if this is a demo route pre-programmed by TomTom, they could have set the average speed artificially high in order to make their GPS guidance miracles more appealing to the many Winnebago drivers who confuse cruise control with auto pilot
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Darren
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Nice to see that TomTom don't know their ar** from their elbow! I asked on Monday if they were shipping and they said not yet!
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DennisN
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Well, my numerous countless TomToms simply sit in the front window busily calcifying the route and shouting at each other (volume 100%). Between the three of them, I have three different maps, three different sets of cameras and two different operating system versions, so they all define different routes. You should hear the arguments - but at least I haven't got a John Cleese or Billy Connolly voice to get abusive about it!
Alas, with all the arguing, they DO NOT actually get out and start PEDALLING so my average speed is through unassisted diesel power. 
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DennisN
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| Darren wrote: | | Nice to see that TomTom don't know their ar** from their elbow! I asked on Monday if they were shipping and they said not yet! |
Hmm. Would that be "Are you shipping 930s?" or "Are you shipping RDS-TMC that works?" or "Are you shipping fixes for the hands free problems?" or "Are you shipping IQ routing algorithms that work?" or "Are you shipping Mapshare with useful features?" or "Are you shipping Voice Recognition that recognises voices and covers all menu items?"
Etc, Etc, Etc. 
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GPS_fan
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So do you go with a majority verdict or just the one that shouts loudest?
....or is it a case of that classic Irish phrase "I wouldn't start from here, if I were you!"?
No matter how much people joke about women's general lack of ability to navigate, the majority seem to prefer a female voice telling them where to go
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Darren
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| DennisN wrote: | | Hmm. Would that be "Are you shipping 930s?" or "Are you shipping RDS-TMC that works?" or "Are you shipping fixes for the hands free problems?" or "Are you shipping IQ routing algorithms that work?" or "Are you shipping Mapshare with useful features?" or "Are you shipping Voice Recognition that recognises voices and covers all menu items?" |
Nah, it was only the first question that I didn't know the answer to
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