TOM TOM 500/510 v TOM TOM 1 - Your Opinions?

[Fiddlemesticks]

After a real battle with Halfords over my buzzing TT500 and them eventually agreeing its faulty and giving a refund I'm in the position where i have £299 on my card to be spent on a new Sat Nav unit.

Now my 500 was fine, but i bought it for the phone bit, which i didnt use as 2 weeks later the company put a hands free in the car, and the europe bit, which it turns out i'll never use.

So now i'm wondering whether it worth me just buying the new TT1 for £190 or get a TT510 for £299?

Seems like the TT1 will perfectly ok and i can save £100.

I only use it for postcodes for clients and the occasional POI.

Is the new TT1 any quicker than the 500/510?

What are your views - which one should i get?

[Podie]

The 510 gives you the option to add the RDS-TMC (traffic announcement) aerial… which IIRC the One doesn't...

If you're not bothered, save yourself £100..

[combemarshal]

I'd go for the One, get free Wap access and do the traffic that way, Far better than the TMC version, it can only handle a limited amount of alerts.
And the one v2 is now £180

[Fish]

Just bought a One v2 today and I must say it is superb, far better than the £2k unit in the subaru

[Fiddlemesticks]

Thanks for your replies. Bought my One V2 today - Fantastic!

[_deano]

bringing this up again.
I'm looking at the TT one and the 510. Is the only real difference the socket for the aerial?

[nicecupoftea]

I'd be interested too - does the TT1 have BT / handsfree connectivity?

[Marshy]

It has Bluetooth but only for fetching traffic/weather/speed cam information through your mobile phone's GPRS/whatever data connection. It doesn't do handsfree, regrettably.

[_deano]

Marshy said:

It has Bluetooth but only for fetching traffic/weather/speed cam information through your mobile phone's GPRS/whatever data connection. It doesn't do handsfree, regrettably.

TT1 or TT510?

[Marshy]

_deano said:

TT1 or TT510?

Oops, sorry, was responding to nicecupoftea, so the TomTom One (v1, but I think the v2 is the same in this regard).