GPS,
TomTom brings costly connected services to mid-range XL LIVE
By Darren Murph 
posted May 21st 2009 11:39AM
posted May 21st 2009 11:39AM
GPS,
posted May 21st 2009 11:39AM
Estimated time drivers save by using real-time GPS traffic updates
Drivers that use GPS systems with real-time traffic info spend 18% less time behind the wheel than those who do not.
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so..........do you like TomTom live?
I woke up this morning to find a letter my girlfriend saying she needed space. As I got up I realized she took the cat and the ps3. To make the day worse I find out shes staying with my brother and now hes getting to rub my pussy. FML
He's getting to rub YOUR pussy?
It could be a lesbian couple and she wears the pants
If it weren't already abundantly clear, this service is only available in Europe. There are still no connected navigation units for the Americas, with the exception of Tom Tom's and Garmin's software for smartphones.
I wonder why they weren't able to figure the very light data service into the cost of the unit, like Amazon. You think there'd be, at the very least, an option for a lifetime subscription at a discounted rate.
Sure there are. TeleNav's own Shotgun.
o sorry wrong website. why people get a regular navigation system and listen to the radio for traffic reports.
Do the maps on the new TomTom's actually look like in the picture? Or is it still the same slow-refreshed line-drawn maps of my two year old Tom Tom?
It's the same crappy map display. The impossibly-perfect render above is showing the lane guidance screen, not the regular navigation map.
The picture above is the "lane assist" mode that's ONLY available if you have the 2008 (or newer) maps. I was disappointed to find the device I bought in Nov 2008 (the 720 Go model), which was refurbished, had the older 2007 maps and the free map upgrade wasn't valid for my model. and I wasn't about to pay the $75+ just to have slightly newer maps after just spending $150 for the device.
Also, iirc, this feature isn't available on older TomTom units, even if you have the latest software update (free) and the newest maps, you need the more current devices. So TomTom One 1st and 2nd Edition are screwed, no idea on the original XL and XLS models.
That is the reason why I switched from Navigator 7 to Garmin XT on my WM device. Garmin gives you free traffic, weather, and Google location searches.
Garmin isn't all peaches and cream, the dark side is they charge a lot for map updates and they charge you for software updates (which are free, forever, from TomTom).
And don't be quick to dismiss software updates, I previously had a TomTom One 2nd Edition and I received significant new features on my existing unit, breathing new life into it.
The traffic and stuff is NOT technically free on the Garmin XT app, the GPS needs internet to get the info and you already pay your carrier for your data plan on your phone.
Isn't the tomtom services $9.95 a month?
"TomTom Traffic is a LIVE Service. The GO 740 LIVE comes with a free three-month subscription, which gives you access to all of the special LIVE functionality. Continue accessing LIVE Services for only $9.95 a month thereafter."
http://www.tomtominnovations.com/
Read the article closer, €9.95 ($14) means $10UK or $14 US..... but in America we pay $10. Basically, like everything else with electronics in Europe, they get screwed and we make out like bandits.
I have used the GO LIVE 740 unit. The internal GSM modem interferes with the radio, yearly map updates cost £120, yearly subscriptoin costs £79 (discounted). If they had included a 12 month free subscription in the box (istead of a misorly 3 months), it's cheaper to buy a new device after 12 months.
Even the TT Box suggests this sort of subscription cost is only for those who drive 30k miles per year, ie: sales reps who can put the monthly fee on expenses.
Unless TomTom does some major updates to the mapping on their units, it will be awhile before I purchase another unit. I am disappointed, I love their Linux on it, Hate they do not support Linux connected computers. I also hate that they leave out major bodies of water out of the maps. River? What River? And they claim to give you paths for biking and walking, but they leave out streams and creeks and bridges you have to use and cross? Does not make sence to me.