replacement for tom-tom 910
Discussion
Ive finally managed to persuade the delightful and not-at-all-feckless folks at amazon to take my tom-tom 910 back after 4 months of glitches, faults, frozen screens and generally hilarious hijinks and am now looking for an alternate.
I liked that i could use it as a thing to store music in and i liked the ability to transmit said music through the FM transmitter thingy and having a remote, but other than that, I thought it was pretty shocking. slow, painfully unreliable, got me lost dozens of times and often just plain wrong. and how annoying are the menus? and the fact that you cant turn off the voice instructions without turning off all sound? ooo, and the touch screen which almost willfully selects anything other than you've touched. and the software which crashes every-time you use it. and the woeful fragility of it. still, the blue-tooth phone connection was good if you wanted to convince someone you were trapped in a well and needed them to fetch Lassie.
anyway, what can I have for around the same money (about 300 quid) that will do the stuff I like but none of the stuff i hate? other than a map and a ipod, of course. come on, this is the 80's after all. It needs to be robust, handsome, deadly reliable and accurate and do loads of cool things i didnt realise i needed until i was told they existed. So, a lot like me really.
Thanks in advance,
N.
I liked that i could use it as a thing to store music in and i liked the ability to transmit said music through the FM transmitter thingy and having a remote, but other than that, I thought it was pretty shocking. slow, painfully unreliable, got me lost dozens of times and often just plain wrong. and how annoying are the menus? and the fact that you cant turn off the voice instructions without turning off all sound? ooo, and the touch screen which almost willfully selects anything other than you've touched. and the software which crashes every-time you use it. and the woeful fragility of it. still, the blue-tooth phone connection was good if you wanted to convince someone you were trapped in a well and needed them to fetch Lassie.
anyway, what can I have for around the same money (about 300 quid) that will do the stuff I like but none of the stuff i hate? other than a map and a ipod, of course. come on, this is the 80's after all. It needs to be robust, handsome, deadly reliable and accurate and do loads of cool things i didnt realise i needed until i was told they existed. So, a lot like me really.
Thanks in advance,
N.
stovey said:
My tomtom 910 has a frozen screen after attempting to load the latest software.
I've tried the reset 5 times now.
Next I'm going to get a hammer and smash the fvcker to pieces.
ah, yes. the tomtom maneuver.I've tried the reset 5 times now.
Next I'm going to get a hammer and smash the fvcker to pieces.
Edited by stovey on Thursday 22 November 18:18
there must be another product that can do all of the above without any of the shite?
Get TomTom Navigator 6 on a cheap PDA with a 3.5" screen and you're away. Extremely relaible, doesn't freeze, and with detailed maps of Western Europe to street level and regular subscribed traffic updates it will get you there every time.
I use mine abroad a fair bit. I run Navigator 6 on an XDA IIi with a 51 channel I-Blue Bluetooth GPS receiver. You can get that lot for a lot less than £300 quid and it gives you a phone as well. I've just bought the missus an XDA Trion and put Navigator 6 on it with the same GPS receiver i have and it works a treat although the screen is only 2.8" but she has small fingers and great eyesight
I can take both units out of the car and walk around town with it if need be and it'll get me right to the door, plus while on the move you can run a Bluetooth hands free at the same time to take phonecalls while navigating. GPS receiver even works in tunnels, indoors and underpassses with great accuracy. Equally i run performance software on my PDA that gives laptimes on trackdays, car performance i.e. 0-60,50-70, 1/8 and 1/4 mile times too.
IMHO it makes a lot of sense to get the whole kit as it's cheaper, more reliable, and clearly more accurate than some others.
I use mine abroad a fair bit. I run Navigator 6 on an XDA IIi with a 51 channel I-Blue Bluetooth GPS receiver. You can get that lot for a lot less than £300 quid and it gives you a phone as well. I've just bought the missus an XDA Trion and put Navigator 6 on it with the same GPS receiver i have and it works a treat although the screen is only 2.8" but she has small fingers and great eyesight
I can take both units out of the car and walk around town with it if need be and it'll get me right to the door, plus while on the move you can run a Bluetooth hands free at the same time to take phonecalls while navigating. GPS receiver even works in tunnels, indoors and underpassses with great accuracy. Equally i run performance software on my PDA that gives laptimes on trackdays, car performance i.e. 0-60,50-70, 1/8 and 1/4 mile times too.
IMHO it makes a lot of sense to get the whole kit as it's cheaper, more reliable, and clearly more accurate than some others.
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