Latest TomTom ONE - UK & Republic of Ireland

The world's number 1 portable car navigator just got a whole lots better

Easiest to use Just switch on & go 3.5" touchscreen Best Maps Latest Maps Guaranteed TomTom MapShare™ Leader in Safety Help me! Menu Pre-installed safety camera locations Best Traffic Free traffic updates for life via optional TMC receiver Flexible Routing Future Proof via TomTom HOME

The TomTom ONE TomTom ONE combines ease of use, portability, touchscreen technology and an elegant, unmistakable new design.Drivers can enjoy the benefits of a TomTom ONE immediately, thanks to TomTom’s award-winning plug and drive navigation software pre-installed on a memory card. This means there is no need to download complicated software, just plug in and start using. TomTom ONE comes with the latest regional maps of your Country/Region. With TomTom ONE, everyONE can find their way from A to B! Drive relaxed, travel safely, arrive on time! The TomTom ONE series TomTom ONE is everything you need from a straightforward portable satellite navigator. Easy to use navigation that gets you from A to B more comfortably. Whether you go for the map of your region or the whole of Western Europe, TomTom ONE provides true door-to-door navigation with the best possible spoken and visual instructions. Loud & clear directions in your own language and a high quality touchscreen with a crystal clear 3D view. The portable, wallet-sized design also means it’s easy to take your ONE with you. TomTom ONE 3RD EDITION With TomTom ONE you stay absolutely up-to-date with TomTom Map Share™, which allows you to add map corrections that have been submitted by the community of TomTom users and verified by TomTom. You can also make corrections of your own, should you encounter a new change to the roads – and share such changes with other users. Also, the ONE comes with the "Help Me" button on the main menu which provides direct access to safety and road assistance information in case of emergency. There’s even more! The ONE comes with fixed safety camera locations.

Easy to use Plug & Go:Works straight out of the box. High quality 3.5" full TFT colour touchscreen User-friendly menu with high resolution graphics Tip Feature: discover everything the TomTom ONE has to offer through useful on-screen tips. High sensivity GPS chipset Portable, lightweight and wallet-sized

Drive relaxed, travel safely, arrive on time! Full door-to-door navigation anywhere in the UK & Republic of Ireland Choice of routes: such as quickest, shortest, avoiding toll roads and congestion charge areas Itinerary Planning: plan your trip by defining multiple waypoints and destinations. Route planning based on desired arrival time Optional warning when exceeding recorded speed limit Car speed linked volume: volume of voice instructions will increase / decrease depending on speed of car. Anti-Glare Screen: always an optimal view 7-digit Postcode Navigation: for simple and accurate selection of your destination.

Clear instructions Crystal clear 3D and 2D graphics for perfect viewing day and night View Route: review and test the calculated route before you start driving. Clear spoken instructions in your own language: (36 languages to choose from and 55 different voices available) User Interface: now including 22 languages. Sign post information: displayed in navigation mode Compass Mode: displays compass on screen to have even better orientation while driving.

Smart & Fun extras Ready for TomTom PLUS services: free traffic updates for life via optional TMC receiver, real time information on weather conditions and extra downloads such as detailed city maps, scenic routes, additional voices, Points Of Interest and much more. TomTom HOME software: Future proof for your TomTom ONE, the essential tool to keep your TomTom up to date, easily install maps and services, shop for more services, prepare trips, receive free traffic alerts on your computer and much, much more. Buddy finder: instant messaging and navigation come together. Locate and keep in touch with your friends Thousands of Points Of Interest

TomTom is powered by Tele Atlas Quality Maps.
Tele Atlas is a leading worldwide map data provider for personal navigation solutions. In a rapidly expanding industry and changing world, Tele Atlas continuously produces rich, fresh and accurate quality maps. Tele Atlas brand promise: find more, reflects how we see a world where people do not just want to move from A to B, but want to find interesting things and places on the way: restaurants, hotels, petrol stations, museums and so on. It's not about just guiding users to destinations but also helping them easily find the people, places and products that interest them the most.

 

• TomTom ONE device
• Windscreen holder
• USB Car Charger and USB cable
• Documentation
• Installation poster
• Accessory & Plus Leaflet
• Quick Start guide

Customer Rating:
Summary: Clear, concise and packed with features
Comment: I like my TomTom - it's a neatly-designed unit, finds a signal quickly, the maps and display are very clear and maps can be corrected and updated. The directions are precise with clear indications of which lane to be in at tricky junctions and, very useful for me, it has a speed warning which indicates if I am exceeding the speed limit for the road I'm on.

However, I've possibly been unlucky with mine because my first unit would switch itself on at random when not in use and when in use would freeze at the start-up screen although I could operate it using my PC (not that this is any help because I don't need a sat-nav when sitting in my office!). It was returned exchanged as faulty and ... hey-presto, the replacement unit also switches itself on occasionally when not in use. It hasn't yet frozen at the start-up screen in the month that I've been using it, but I'm clinging onto my proof of purchase just incase. Apart from that, it's just what I hoped for with more features than I anticipated.

But, if you're planning to use it overseas, be warned. There is no SD slot to install additional maps and only 512mb memory.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth all the hype
Comment: TomTom ONE v3 Great Britain
I bought my Son a Navman S30 which is excellent & was going to buy one for my self when Amazon had the Tom Tom V3 at only £75 so I of course went for that because after all they are reckoned to be the best arn't they !
Give me the Navman any day.

Don't get me wrong generally it is very efficent BUT for the following -
When you're approaching a junction where you need to turn left or right visually it gives you plenty of warning but sometimes the voice only pipes up and says "turn left" just as you're passing the turning ! Not good if you do not keep checking the visual display.
Whilst travelling on the M25 (for the first time) 4 times it went completely silent and did NOT warn me verbally which lane I should take = hence took a wrong road & 10 mile detour before it got me back to where I had left the M25.

In rural locations it will quite happily direct you up the most ridiculous 'lanes' that are only suitable for 4 wheel drive vehicles ! I had one pig of a trip where it took me up numerious lanes (some only 6 foot wide) and so steep I was down into 1st gear with no chance of turning round ! Grrr. Took nearly 1 hour to get to a large town that should have only been 8 miles and about 10 - 15 minutes drive from the A road I had been on.

They really ought to sort their mapping system out to warn you of such nigh on impossible to use roads, you certainly need to use caution if driving a truck / Motor home / or towing a caravan.

Re: the Speed Camera part - in a recent 650 mile long touring holiday it only warned of 1 Speeed trap ! ! ! So you still need to keep your eyes peeled for them dam Yellow Boxes :-)

All that apart it worked pretty well BUT I recommend you always preview a route BEFORE you go so that you can try and eliminate the odd problem like these, and you still carry a map / Atlas as backup. OR better still buy a Navman instead - all Sat Navs can suffer the problems I've mentioned but I reckon the Navman is better & is usually cheaper.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Easy to use
Comment: We used this for the first time yesterday - it was easy to use, even when we took a few wrong turns it put us on track. Has a selection of choices for voices and gives advance notice of direction with reminders. We got from A-B in no time. Very good for learner drivers and is so compact it fits into a small handbag. Only downside is that there is no carry case supplied with it which means you have to pay extra and also whilst not neccessary - the in house charger is not supplied so you can only charge and use in the car.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Poor. Poor. Poor.
Comment: Such a disappointment. I bought this because it was a little more expensive than a similar Garmin model, and I assumed that if I wanted something a bit better, I would have to pay £20 more. Well, you live and learn. Tom Tom will tell you that you get to do all sorts of things with your GPS. And you can:

You can add voice packs to make your GPS sound like John Cleese... But you can't get a co-ordinate readout in British National Grid.

You can adjust your cursor so that your car looks like a red sports car on the display - but you can't tell the GPS to avoid built up areas at rush hour.

You can connect to your computer to update the maps - But you can't draw your route on an onscreen map and get the GPS to guide you along it.

You can set it to make a funny noise like a cow when ever you break the speed limit - but you can't save your route mileages to help with fuel returns at the end of the month.

You can even buy a sexy woman's voice for a few quid on the website. But you can't "trackback" a previous route, or expect the GPS to learn that you actually prefer a different route home than the one it always picks.

I am constantly dismayed by the unintelligent way the unit tries to drag me onto motorways at peak time, or the way the "calculate alternative route" will only calculate a tiny variation into the route. Yes, it finds addresses, but it is SUCH an unintelligent piece of kit that the focus group they used to create it must have been a fishtank.

In traffic the graphic display lags so much you can easily find yourself taking wrong turns. I don't want funny voices. I just want the same functionality in this GPS as I have in my hand-held Garmin Etrex, and it's not even close.

I need to be able to look at an OS map and see where I am. I need a time-of-arrival that UPDATES with the speed I have been doing, rather than assuming, in the middle of a five mile tailback, that I can do 70mph at any given moment. I need a night time display that's not three times brighter than my speedo. I need a scroll feature that lets me plot a vague area on a map and say "avoid this area" or "go via this region", rather than me "Travel Via" functions demanding a house number.

Sigh.

Look. By all means, take it shopping. Use it to give the kids an answer to "are we there yet?" but shop around. Don't make the mistake I made and think that better is usually more expensive.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: X Hits The Spot
Comment: Been meaning to get a "proper" satnav for ages as I only have one on my Nokia N95. I looked at many reviews on Amazon and although there were the usual mix of good and bad reviews and the usual review from people who obviously do not know what they're doing, I decided to plump for the tomtom one v3, although I bought the Explore version that comes with the carry case.

Some gadgets are complicated to use and some are easy to use, this tomtom is in a category all on it's own: easypeasylemonsqueezy.

I turned the unit on and got a GPS signal within 20 seconds - I was inside too - I followed the simple on screen instructions and was planning a trip to the local supermarket within seconds. It was brilliant!

The whole thing is very intuitive and I defy anyone not to be able to use this without reading one word of an instruction manual.

An absolute must buy!

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