Core ends TomTom deal

Hopefully we will soon hear apple is insignificant to core and they are dropping apple.
 
dionb said:
Wow - Hi Fi Corp have TomTom for 1999 (they day save 300).
Is this their way of dumping stock before the general public know this lot??
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Is a TomTom one or XL? I bought my TomTom one at the airport for 1599! I think I still got the sales ladies number
 
Was wondering what GPS to get .....

This settles the matter
 
devnull said:
ive had a garmin and a tomtom. i found the tomtom maps more up-to-date than garmin. garmin still talks about hans strydom while tomtom talks about malabongwe or however its spelled. tomtom its much easier to update, tomtom home is really what sold me on it. garmin has a much better search facility though. you can type in sterkfontein and get all the sterkfonteins in the country you dont have to go via a city first (try search for sterkfontein dam on tomtom major pain in the arse). garmin generally has much better battery life too so you can walk around with it. both are great both have their problems
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The bottom of the range TomTom used to have terrible battery life, but they improved it dramatically.

The Garmin I used had a terrible search facility, as does the version of Nokia Maps on my phone. Regularly told me it couldn't find a road. Now if the road were not on the map in the device that would be one thing, but it was failing to find roads marked on its map. And contrary to reviews finding Garmin came up with better routes I found Garmin regularly making the more bizarre and invariably slower route choices. The Garmin also had a terrible user interface. Having used both TomTom and Garmin I'll never buy Garmin again.

One area where Garmin did excel was the windscreen mounting. TomTom's works fine, but Garmin's is better. Not enough to make me suffer through owning another Garmin though.

dionb said:
Actually really great.
No battery to charge, no co-pilot with nagging voice, fully recyclable (except maybe as loo paper - may cut) etc etc.:D
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Difficult to follow while driving however.
 
then I would however rather get a Tom Tom as everyone I have spoken to was in Favor of Tom Tom. Would be terrible tho to get a device and not even being able to claim waranty on it in case its needed
 
Sorry for the thread resurrection, but i am trying to find out what it costs for map updates for a TomTom Start? I just bought one from Incredible Conn for R999, so I won't need to update maps for maybe a year at least. If map updates are like R400 then i should consider returning it, as i haven't opened it yet and have another 2 days to return it to get my money back.

If anyone can shed light on my confusion, plz reply here! :)
 
well the small mapshare updates is free on all tomtoms, the big new map updates is standard across most tomtoms as well but as with all GPS's you need to buy these if you want it. They cost around R450. I have a 2 yrs old map and still havent found a road thats wrong or 'not there' so really give it like 4 yrs before you update if the R450 is a problem already now (even though u only will have to spend it in 2 yrs from now at the soonest?)

First find out about the other gps's (facts, not fiction) and then decide if you wanna take it back? none of them are free and some cost a lot more for really crappy maps...

Had my tomtom over 2 yrs now without a single 'wrong turn'
 
Happy with my TomTom (1yr old) too and never a wrong turn once you understand how to use it :)

Also you get free public updates. This is far better than official updates as the general public will add in new suburbs, or name farm roads (with local namings), add points of interests. Etc

For the price you paid I honestly cannot say that any navigator is better than the other. But if your not buying TomTom then buy Garmin. But once you got a SatNav your going to wonder how you lived without it :)
 
Thx for the feedback guys :), I reckon i will keep the TomTom as it seems like a good price. Will be giving it to my old man and sis to use anyways. I have a Garmin GPS in my soon to be ex-Samsung Omnia and SatNav in my brand new blackberry bold 9700 :)

cbrunsdonza are u saying that SatNav is the best out of them all or the worst? :confused:
 
Sorry, a bit of yuppie-terminology-creep coming in there (I keep forgetting that SatNav is a brand - please read it as a Satellite Navigator)
 
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