In keeping with less is better, the cradle has been redesigned to be small and snug with TomTom calling it the EasyPort. The mount folds up, sucks on and off your windscreen easily and doesn’t actually add much to the overall size of the device.
Get past the simple design and you have a standard TomTom offering the usual software that if you’ve used before will be comfortably familiar.
With mobile phones now coming with GPS, you wonder if an entry-level GPS device is worth it.
The offering is basic GPS. There is no traffic support out of the box although you can add a TomTom traffic system to enable it. There is also no Bluetooth support for hands-free dialing or FM transmitter so you can get the instructions on your radio wirelessly. Additionally there is no SD card slot for using it as a media player and no lane guidance screens as seen on other models higher up in the range.
You will get the useful Help system that allows you to describe where you are to breakdown or emergency services, TomTom Home software support, and ability to navigate to addresses via zipcode or intersection, as well as the advantage of TomTom Map Share, so you can benefit from map corrections made by the TomTom community.
The TomTom One 3rd edition is loaded with the local market maps that you have to specify for the device you have when you purchase. If you move areas, such as a to a different country, you will not be able to upload maps. There is not enough space to load the new maps in addition to the existing USA/Canada maps. TomTom home does not allow removal of the USA/Canada maps and you cannot upgrade the SD card.
The new TomTom ONE and TomTom XL supersede the current ONE 3RD EDITION and ONE XL ranges, and will be available from retailers starting end August 2008.
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TomTom has a few low cost GPS units but is not as well known as Garmin and Magellan. For good reason. TomTom aims for the low end of the market and the dumbed down version of a device that doesn’t have “too many buttons”. Maybe that’s OK for a simp…
Nice summary of the TomTom options. Certainly for a motorcycle rider the TomTom Rider 2 is right up there as a quality unit and should be considered equally with the Garmin Zumo range