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Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Jamie Doe

Jamie Doe — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:06:01 +0000

had a Garmin GPS and thought I’d upgrade to a Tomtom Go 920! Boy was that a huge mistake! The mapping in it is so antiquated and not accurate at all. It takes me to vacant lots and says that is a shopping center!@ gets within two to three blocks of where I need to be on a consistant level. I paid $70 for a map upgrade and was assured that it would upgrade the names of the streets in my area. It didn’t and when I advised them of this, they said that there was nothing that they could do! I wanted bluetooth to hook up to my phone, that worked for about a month, then quit, it will still hook to my brother’s Tomtom 920, but not mine and they said it was the phone not the GPS. That’s so incredibly stupid that it didn’t even warrant an argument from me. I will either sell this on EBay or give it to the Salvation army and go and buy another Garmin. Tomtom sucks so bad! Only to be outdone by their service Department!

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Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Tadhg

Tadhg — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:09:50 +0000

I’ve got a TomTom GO 710 and a GO 720 (the 710 died the day we landed in Perth – bought the 720 so we wouldn’t be lost, got the 710 fixed under warranty later). The Aussie voice is actually a woman from Brisbane (she sang the national anthem at the Wallabies/Springboks game at Suncorp a few weeks ago). But I use a computer generated British voice. It reads street names, something the Aussie voice doesn’t do (not on my 720). This is good, as it gives you a chuckle at some of the pronunciations of Brisbane’s suburb’s names.

On the mapping points… Expect to pay for new maps. A new map for my 710 is worth over A$110, one for my 720 is a little more than that (I’m not sure why, after all, it’s taken from the same Sensis map data). And don’t be surprised that if it doesn’t manage to keep up to date with the myriad of changes round here… Even if Map Sharing’s enabled.

In terms of music and directions, I’ve used my GO 720 as a music player. It’s every bit as frustrating. It does the same stop-start rubbish (pause music – give direction – restart music – drive 200m – pause music – turn NOW – restart music, etc). So that’s no big surprise to me.

Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Big Jerry went fishing and caught a Big Jock

Big Jerry went fishing and caught a Big Jock — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:12:11 +0000

Big Jock, It’s iPhone not IPhone

Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Big Jock

Big Jock — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:39:32 +0000

3. He never compared the TomTom app with the navigon app.

Maybe he should have, rather than comparing to a dedicated navigation device such as a Garmin. He cannot have paid much attention on his 6 month course.

My experience so far has been superb, I have a 3GS, maybe that is why I am not experiencing the jerkiness mentioned in the review. I have done my daily trip from Dunblane to Perth with no issues, and tried out the contact functionality yesterday evening successfully.

As soon as someone disagrees with a negative review based on their experience are they automatically a tomtom employee??

Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Big Jock

Big Jock — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:29:59 +0000

I was just saying that the application was smart enough to look at the IPhone settings, whereas the reviewer was not.

Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Big Jerry

Big Jerry — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:26:34 +0000

Big Jock it sounds like you are not really equipped with a sufficient level of knowledge to be reviewing IPhone app reviews.
1. If someone buys an application called TomTom Australia the default voice should be Australian not American.
2. I believe he did a 6 month TAFE course in iPhone app reviewing.
3. He never compared the TomTom app with the navigon app.
4. How long have you worked for TomTom?

I give your review of this review one out of five stars.

XOX

Comment on Review of Tom Tom for the iPhone by Fanfoot

Fanfoot — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:25:19 +0000

Obvious question given the performance comments… do you have an iPhone 3G or 3GS? If its a 3GS that’s disappointing.