TomTom ONE XL 4 3 Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Maps of the U S and Canada
TomTom ONE XL 4 3 Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Maps of the U S and Canada
The TomTom ONE XL has everything you need to make your trip safer, more relaxed and more fun. TomTom’s award-winning plug-and-go navigation software, a 4.3″ touchscreen and access to real-time traffic services make navigating even easier. With a large choice of route options, complete maps of the US and Canada and millions of useful and fun points of interest pre-loaded for your journey, you’re ready for worry-free navigation from A to B. TomTom ONE XL makes getting there better than ever.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars great gps
After buying and trying this for a couple of weeks now I really like it. I ordered it to put in a new ford lariet I was going to buy but by the time it came I had bought the King Ranch that has gps built in. I just use this in my work truck and it has performed great.
1 Star DON’T BUY TOMTOM
tomtom started acting up after a year. had trouble getting satellites. did a reset. worked okay. now it won’t boot up at all. followed all tech support directions. should work perfectly (or at least longer than 2 years) for the price tag!! garbage!
5 Stars very satified
I oftened heard that these navies take straight to the front door,,,, now I know!
1 Star Failed us every time we really needed it.
My wife bought me the Tom Tom XL One for my birthday last year. I was exited at first, but it has been nothing but frustration since. First off, we realized the maps did not include the I-355 extension that was just completed near our house. Map updates are available, so I was willing to overlook that – despite the fact that the road had been open for nearly a year before we bought the unit.
When we can get it to work, it works fairly well. However, it is often so frustrating to use that it’s not worth the trouble. As an example, on two consecutive days recently, we could not get it to recognize our destination. One was Carthage College in Kenosha WI, and the other was an address on North Avenue in Elmhurst, IL. The unit did not have a “POI” entry for Carthage College, and would not recognize North Avenue as a street in Elmhurst. I can perhaps excuse not knowing about Carthage College, even though it’s been around FOR A HUNDRED YEARS ON THE SHORES OF LAKE MICHIGAN, but North Avenue is a major arterial street that runs right through the middle of Elmhurst. When you enter an address, you have to do it backwards; city, then street, then number. I suppose this make sense, but it’s extremely frustrating when you enter a city name, and the unit refuses to recognize the name of the street that you know runs through the city.
But the all time worst was when we went on our trip to Ireland last year. This was not too long after we had bought the unit, so we were optimistic about getting it to work. I purchased and downloaded the map of UK and Ireland, and downloaded it to my laptop. Long story short, I was never able to get the unit to recognize the map.
Now for the long story. I purchased a 4GB Secure Digital memory card, but found later that anything above 2GB is “HD”, and the unit won’t recognize it. It will simply hang as it tries to boot up. No mention of this anywhere in any Tom Tom documentation, mind you; I found it on some internet message board somewhere. I then purchased a 2GB card and was able to get it to boot up, but did not have a chance to try to install the maps before we left for our trip because I had spent so much time trying to resolve the SD card problem.
We got to Ireland, and rented our car. We scoffed at the offer of a car with GPS – we have our own, thank you – and managed to find our way to our first destination without aid of GPS. I then started trying to get the unit to recognize the map. I installed it on the card, placed the card in the unit, and… it didn’t work. The “choose a map” screen would not show me the map I had just installed, much like it ignores the existence of Carthage College and North Avenue in Elmhurst. For two days, I tried everything I could think of. I had three cards (two 2GB cards and a 1GB), and tried each one of them with the same result. I put the US maps on the cards and those worked, so I figured that it could not be the cards. Just to eliminate the cards as a cause, though, I backed up the original hard drive data and tried reinstalling only the UK/Ireland map onto the unit. It booted up fine but then gave me the message “no maps found!” – with an exclamation point, as if IT was frustrated with ME.
Remember, I am doing all this while on vacation. I finally stopped wasting time on it and put the unit away for the rest of the trip.
A working GPS unit would have been invaluable on our trip – we did a lot of driving during the trip, and made a number of wrong turns. Unfortunately, the Tom Tom let us down.
That’s been my experience with this unit – the less I know about the route, and the more I need to rely on the unit, the more likely it is that it won’t work.
2 Stars Tom Tom ONE XL 4.3-Inch Widescreen
I was sorry I made this purchase; I drive trucks cross-country the product is designed for automobiles not commercial use; it does not offer the option for gross weight and height restrictions in programming its route. Nor does it allow you to tell it your desired route. The unit was defective, I had to send it back, the vendor replaced the original unit, the second units software gave me trouble the vendors limited assistance didn’t resolve the problems. I wanted to return it and be refunded at least the purchase price but the vendor wanted to charge me even though the product was defective from the inception of the purchase. I decided I’d rather loose the entire purchase price than continue to be frustrated dealing with the vendor.
