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TomTom GO 300 Portable GPS Navigator with Maps of US Pre-loaded on SDdUser Review: - Maps Are Ridiculously OutdatedGreat - it comes with maps of the entire US - that are at least 5 years old. The unit is useless the maps are so outdated and no easy update path on their pretty useless web site. I couldn't recommend this to anyone no matter how much I like other features since the maps are the most important thing and they are useless. User Review:  - TomTom Steers Me WrongI purchased a TomTom navigator system based on good experiences with renting cars with Magellan's Neverlost. The Magellan unit was expensive and I found the TomTom had a superior user interface, was portable and less costly. So I purchased the TomTom Go. I can't give enough praise to the user interface. It is very intuitive. The graphics are large and easily read from a distance. Its speaker delivers loud and clear speech. Being able to put the TomTom in my pocket and have it guide me in a city while I'm walking is a plus. The battery lasts 4-5 hours. All of these advantages though, are overshawdowed by an error-ridden map and POI database that is incomplete and old. Some examples from my trips: - It seems 50% of the POIs in the database no longer or never existed. Conversely, TomTom misses 50% of the existing POIs. - On every trip, TomTom will not recognize a stretch of highway. TomTom thinks I'm driving through a meadow or woods and constantly tells me I need to get back on the highway. Fortunately, TomTom's volume will mute. - TomTom thinks some interstate entrance ramps are clover-leaf instead of stoplight, guiding me to turn in a wrong direction. - Monticello may be Thomas Jefferson's famous home near Charlottesville VA, and featured on US currency, but TomTom cannot find it. - In southern MD, TomTom guided us to a farmer's house instead of the desired restaurant three miles away. - In Alexandria VA, we needed to find a hospital. TomTom guided us instead to a restaurant, four miles from the nearest hospital! - Heading to a friend's wedding near Hilton Head SC, TomTom guided us to a continuous loop through a remote neighborhood 15 miles from the destination. We had to stop at a gas station and ask directions. This was the final incident that lost my confidence in TomTom. Now I'm back to using paper maps and written directions. I use TomTom as a secondary device mostly for tracking and measuring distance. If I could do it over, I would purchase a Magellan. User Review:  - I can't live with out it!My father bought this for me for my birthday. I love it & I don't know how I lived without it. I was very surprised to find that it even covered all of the streets in my very, very small town (few thousand people). You can even download John Cleese's voice, off of the tomtom website, to be your navigator. Classic british humour. He continues to make me laught out loud while I'm driving. Plus you can but additional cards that cover, europe, asia, central & south america. I would recommed this to anyone without hesitation. User Review:  - Driving/TravelI will be short and just tell you that after buying the Tom Tom 300 it has been great! Before we used maps or just print directions from the internet. We took a trip to Tulsa Oklahoma traveling over 400 miles and the Tom Tom took us right to front of our hotel, we used to locate restaurants, malls, churches...etc. What I like the most is that i does give you precise directions on where you really need to exit or turn. Before my wife and I would argue about where to turn next or exactly what to do, now we listen to the Tom Tom and no more arguements. Only one draw back, it was hard to see during bright sunny days. I would recommend this product to anyone, no gliches yet, but I do think I need to update the latest sofware, just one occasion it wanted me to go straight on a "tee", if you miss the exit it quickly redirects you. I wish I would bought while back. Roque Urena User Review: - Do not trust this item!!!!I do not trust the TTG300 to save my life. We bought the item in California and have been using it to make our drive to Florida. Overall, the TTG300 looks nice and is easy to use but the maps on it are out of date and quite often it would get confused as to which road we were located on. When looking for a gas station that was ahead of us and just off the highway, it would show us a gas station that was behind us or was in a town that was 20 miles off the freeway. It often did the same thing when shopping for a restaraunt. We found several restaraunts that looked like they had been closed down for quite a while or that didn't even exist! When we programed in our next hotel, and especially if it was just off of the highway, we would drive right past it and as we are passing it on the freeway it would say that we had reached our destination. How could we have reached our destination if we were still on the freeway. On the way to return it to Best Buy, we ended up passing it twice on the freeway and it told us to get off and make a sharp right. The sharp right put us onto a one-way street going the wrong way. When we finaly reached our destination (according to the TTG300) it was accross the freeway and about a mile down the road. We finaly made our own way back to the store and returned it. In order to use it's more advanced features you need a cell phone that has bluetooth and if you don't, your out of luck. All-in-all, this item will either end up getting you lost or getting you killed. It's better to go and get a Rand McNally map than to use this product. |
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