Product Description

The TomTom ONE XL has everything you need to make your trip safer, more relaxed and more fun.At its heart lies TomTom?s award-winning plug-and-go navigation software, but the new 4.3? wide high-quality touchscreen makes navigating even easier. Your ONE XL has a pre-installed database of safety camera locations in the UK. This database is fully integrated in your ONE XL navigation software and alerts to warn you when there is a fixed safety camera on your route. There?s a large choice of route options and to make your trip complete, thousands of useful and fun Points of Interest pre-installed for on the way. Plug & Go: works straight out of the box. Large 4.3" high quality touchscreen. Easy-to-use navigation: with user-friendly menu and TomTom's award winning software. Tip Feature: discover everything ONE XL has to offer through useful onscreen tips. Portable, light and easy to handle. Find your location quicker than ever before with TomTom's free QuickGPSfix software. Fast route calculation and re-routing if roadblocks occur. Large choice of routes: including quickest, shortest, and 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 (if available from map data). Car speed linked volume: volume of voice instructions will increase/decrease depending on speed of car. Anti-Glare Screen: always an optimal view. Convenient postcode navigation: quick, accurate destination selection from full UK and NL postcodes. Easy access to traffic information via a subscription to TomTom Traffic. Crystal clear 3D or 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

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21624 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: 1XL0001
• Released on: 2007-04-23
• Dimensions: .46 pounds

Manufacturer's Description

Latest TomTom ONE XL - Western Europe

The world's number 1 portable car navigator now with a wider screen

Easiest to use Just switch on & go 4.3" extra-wide touchscreen Best Maps Latest and most complete maps of Western Europe Leader in Safety Easier text-input with the extra-wide touchscreen Pre-installed safety camera locations Best Traffic Traffic ready Flexible Routing TomTom HOME Future-proof for your device Access to the Biggest Satellite Navigation Community

TomTom ONE XL: the world’s #1 portable SatNav now with wider screen. The TomTom ONE XL has everything you need to make your trip safer, more relaxed and more fun. At its heart lies TomTom’s award-winning plug-and-go navigation software, but the new 4.3" wide high-quality touchscreen makes navigating even easier. Your TomTom ONE XL has a pre-installed database of safety camera locations fully integrated in your TomTom ONE XL navigation software and alerts to warn you when there is a fixed safety camera on your route. There’s a large choice of route options and to make your trip complete, thousands of useful and fun Points of Interest pre-installed for on the way. In other words, the TomTom ONE XL makes getting there better than ever.

Easy to use Plug & Go: works straight out of the box. Large 4.3" high quality touchscreen. Easy-to-use navigation: with user-friendly menu and TomTom's award winning software. Portable, light and easy to handle.

Drive relaxed, travel safely, arrive on time! Great Navigation: Find your location quicker than ever before with TomTom's QuickGPSfix software Fast route calculation and re-routing if roadblocks occur. Large choice of routes: including quickest, shortest, and avoiding toll roads and congestion charge areas. Convenient postcode navigation: quick, accurate destination selection from full UK and NL postcodes. Easy access to traffic information via a subscription to TomTom Traffic.

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: real time information on traffic congestions, weather conditions and extra downloads such as detailed city maps, scenic routes, additional voices, Points Of Interest and much more. (Subscription and mobile phone with Bluetooth™ and GPRS needed) TomTom HOME software: the essential tool to keep your TomTom up to date, easily install maps and services, shop for more services, prepare trips, receive free traffics 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 such as hotels, restaurants, petrol stations, museums etc.

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 Contents

• TomTom ONE XL device
• Windscreen holder
• USB Car Charger and USB cable
• Documentation
• Installation CD
• SD card

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Customer Reviews

Takes the hassle out of navigating unfamiliar roads
£180 or so will buy you loads of road atlases but you're much better off using the money to buy a Satnav. The amount of stress eliminated by being able to concentrate on the driving rather than navigating in unfamiliar territory is immeasurable. I bought a Tom Tom One XL with UK and Western Europe maps in July 2007, and I can thoroughly recommend it. Of course, unless you're a delivery driver or regularly travel to previously-unvisited places your Satnav will spend long periods sitting unused, but it'll still be very useful when needed. Previous reviews have mentioned valid points such as the lack of a carrying case; no mains charger and no coverage of the Channel Islands, but I wouldn't say that any of these are show-stoppers. I do wonder whether the people who say that the sucker doesn't stick are wetting it before attaching to the windscreen. I always have a job pulling ours off the widescreen, and it has not once fallen off. A word of warning about the accompanying PC software: I nearly killed my unit whilst updating the main operating system on it. I had connected it to my PC prior to lending it to a friend - the software said that there were ephemeral updates (those are updates on what parts of the earth each satellite is orbiting), and also a newer version of the main program. There was insufficient spare memory to apply the updated program without making space first by temporarily deleting the existing one. To be fair, the software did warn me that this wasn't recommended, but what else could I do? I applied the updates after making space but when I tried restoring the temporarily-removed maps etc. it said that this wasn't possible because the main program was missing! I overcame this by installing the software on another PC (phew!). Judging by other reviews I was lucky that I didn't need technical support. I'm not entirely convinced that the wide screen on the XL is worth the extra money. You see more of what is to your left and right (or is the map just a stretched version of the non-widescreen?), but surely it would be better to see more of what's ahead? At least there's more screen space to display other information such as average speed, bearing and estimated arrival time. All in all this is the best electronic product that I've purchased this year.

Good but beware of the complications of adding maps
Generally a good unit, does what its supposed to and very easy to use. Would be nice to have a mains charger included but bear in mind most mini USB chargers will work with this unit.

My main gripe is the rather frustrating procedure to add additional maps which is not sufficiently documented by TomTom (I had to search a few forums before I figured it out).

I bought the US Western Region map from the tomtom website which was a 200Mb download, so you would think that a 1Gb SD card would be sufficient for using it on the TomTom XL...however not so.

The TomTom XL out of the box has a 1GB internal memory which is shipped totally "full" with the Western Europe map and the TomTom software itself, so understandably you can't add any maps to the "core memory". So the solution is to add memory by way of an SD card, BUT the TomTom CANNOT use an SD card and internal memory at the same time, so in short if you want to add any additional maps to this unit you need to purchase an SD card with the capacity for your additional maps plus 1Gb for the existing map and OS. So in otherwords you need at least a 2Gb card.

Once you've bought your 2Gb SD card and you have your new map(s) downloaded to your PC you need to follow the steps below (best to switch the unit off and on after each step). The whole thing will probably take you about an hour depending on how many additional maps you've bought. Make sure you've installed the latest version of the TomTom Home software on your PC before you begin.

1. Connect the TomTom to your PC (without the SD card inserted) and "Backup" the unit to your PC using the TomTom Home software (takes about 20min).

2. Insert your SD card into the TomTom and "Restore" your backup from the PC back to the unit, again using the TomTom Home software (takes about 20mins). These first two steps basically write the contents of the internal memory on to the SD card.

3. Finally click "add maps" in the TomTom Home software on your PC and hopefully it should take you to a screen showing the additional map(s) you've bought and downloaded. You can then add these to the TomTom unit from here.

During use the unit won't automatically switch between your maps, so in my case when I want to use my US map I need to "switch over" in the unit preferences. I guess that means I can't plot a driving route from Liverpool to New York..but then I'm not sure I'd ever need to . . . .

TOMTOM-TASTIC
I bought this at the Channel Tunnel Dixons before going to Paris this week, a I wasn't looking forward to driving round the Periphique with one eye on the map between my legs and one eye on the lunatic Pierres dodging between the cars on their Scooters. I took it out the box on the train and it was ready to go when I got to France. It did a great job most of the time and made the whole experience more pleasant. The screen resolution is not as good as on my Nokia 9300i (which I have TOMTOM UK on) but is easy enough to read. It did try to make me turn right into a block of flats a couple of times but soon sorted itelf out by calculating another route when I went straight on. It got me to the exhibition site I was going to and back and forth to my hotel with no fuss. It would have 5 stars but I think it is a little mean of TOMTOM not to incude a case or mains charger. I haven't looked at other SatNav units so I have nothing to compare it to, but so far it has done what I want it to do. In summary this unit provides easy to use navigation straight out of the box with a simple user interface.