Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11358 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: 1EG0.054.01
• Released on: 2008-04-29
• Dimensions: .41 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

TomTom XL - All the features of ONE with widescreen

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.

Box

• TomTom ONE XL Europe 22 satellite navigation system
• Windscreen holder
• USB car charger and USB cable
• Documentation
• Installation CD

Customer Reviews

Absolutely brilliant!
This is without doubt the best satnav on the market at the moment. The maps are clear, the screen info can be customised, the choice of voices is good (male/female) and programming an address is easy - especially as you can simply enter a postcode. Other useful information is "places of interest" where it will give you details of places near your destination or on the route such as restaurants, tourist attractions, etc. with telephone numbers and more.

I had a Garmin before and this knocks the spots of it. The people who run it down have obviously never had satnav before and if it is your first one it does take some getting used to the instructions. For example when it says "turn right in 400 yards" you have to watch the countdown to 400 yards if you are no good at judging distances because there could be another right turning in 200 yards which you may well take by mistake. All the wrong turnings are user errors not the satnav which is absolutely brilliant and has taken me all over Europe on many many occasions with absolutely no problems whatsoever. And an added bonus is the warning sound when there is a speed camera or when you are going over the speed limit in a given area - and this works all over Europe too!

TomTom One XL with Western Europe Map, NOT UK & ROI
I bought this product in Spain, driving back to Ireland through France.
The quality of the map in Spain and France is very good. I had several customer meetings both in Madrid and Paris suburbs and the device got me there every time in the time scale predicted. The traffic camera alerts were useful and accurate.
Once I got back to Ireland, I found the device to be pretty good, but not as accurate detail as in Continental Europe. There are no traffic camera alerts as far as I can tell. I was looking to plan a trip to Northern Ireland and there are some details lacking on the map, since I could not find the place names.
This is, I think, the difference between getting the UK & ROI map and the Western Europe Map. If you're looking for such detail in both regions, you should invest in both maps to install on your device.
I liked the Tom Tom Home software which gives you the ability to update the map details and also to personalise the device, e.g. put a security code on it. I have already replaced the arrow icon with an image of my car. I also found an excellent freeware software "Tyre", that allows you to plan trips using Google Maps and then download them into the device.

Let down by poor customer support.
I bought one of these, i got to use it once before the thing completely died. The software on the unit is by far the best designed, it's a shame the hardware is getting increasingly unreliable with every generation, they're made as cheap as possible now. This would be forgivable if tomtom had decent customer support to back their products up. They only work normal office hours for phone support and it takes ages to get through. Then if you email them you can expect to wait a week or more for a reply! If they had decent customer support i'd have given them 4 or 5 star. In the end i returned the thing to Halfords for a full refund.