Just got off the phone with Jocelyn Vigreux, president of TomTom, and he gave me the deets on their newest product, the TomTom ONE. Should be available by the end of August, and will retail for $499. The TomTom ONE is aimed at individuals who want easy to use, simple navigation capabilities. Mr. Vigreux stated that the ONE is a continuation of the company's mission of bringing complex technology to the masses in an easy to use way. Here’s the specs on the TomTom ONE we know so far:
- TomTom ONE will use the SiRF StarIII receiver
- 1 GB SD memory
- Pre-loaded with TeleAtlas maps of U.S. and Canada (that's right, this is a North American model only)
- 5.6 ounces
- 3.8 inches x 3.2 inches x 1.0 inch
- Touchscreen color display
- New slim compact design
- Bluetooth
- Access to TomTom's Plus services (such as Traffic, Weather, etc.)
- Will work with the TomTom HOME application
- Thousands of pre-loaded Point of Interest (POI)
- Spoken turn-by-turn voice prompts with more than 70 natural voices
- MSRP $499
- Available late August
So it looks like TomTom's entry-level all-in-one navigation device could be quite a compelling offering, especially given it's price point of $499. Traffic, weather, and Bluetooth for under $500? Sweet! I must say, the design looks pretty nice too. And the windshield mount looks like it's much more substantial than the now infamous GO 910 mount. Let's keep our fingers crossed this one turns out as nice as it looks. My only wish is that TomTom would use NAVTEQ mapping data, given that this is a U.S. only device. As I've commented before, NAVTEQ is (slightly) better in North America than European competitor TeleAtlas.
Guess you won't be happy with this one:
http://www.teleatlas.com/Pub/Press/Press_releases/TA_CT011591
Hmm, we'll see how it goes considering all of the GO X10 series. It is redone anyways. TeleAtlas maps, sheesh, WHY not NavTeq?!? The TomTom Rider used NavTeq maps... 1 GB SD Memory, Garmin allows unlimited. Specs are very similiar to the Garmin units. This unit looks like a company's efforts to try to use the slim design of the Nuvi 350/360, while that is a good thing, let's hope it works. Maybe this TomTom ONE will have dual speakers unlike the Garmin Nuvi 350/360. The mount looks well designed too, but from the pictures on TomTom's website, the mount holder has an inward socket so the unit can swivel, also a Garmin thing. My gripe is using maps that may not be that good, limited SD Card Memory usage to 1 GB, only 2 hours battery life, yes, 2 hours!, and still bad customer service from TomTom. The unit looks great, but what counts is the inards of the unit and if it will function properly. TomTom posted temperature ranges - 14-140 degrees faranheight (sp?), finally they do this after not letting customers know before they purchase with prior models. I'm happy to see they use the same format for the UI, and the unit uses a solid state memory format, not hard disk drive which always can have problems. But if we want extra stuff on the unit, like audiobooks, MP3's, and more, it is limited. This looks promising, time will tell. TomTom is definetly up against Garmin, which is okay because this is normal business competition. But TomTom NEEDS to get traffic information without needing to use a phone and use the antenna that was supposed to come out a while ago. Garmin has it ready, set, go, within weeks.
Definetly a unit more like a Garmin Nuvi than a Garmin StreetPilot. Let's hope TomTom keeps firmware up to date and not problematic. TomTom was my first choice for in-car navigation because the GO 910 was amazing, BUT, after much demo testing in stores and reading about problems with ALL TomTom units, I went Garmin.
I think your view of TomTom is somehow biased. I use TomTom Mobile for more than one year and I didn't get one single problem. I also own TomTom One (European version) that I use in my car and motorcycle and zero problems. Besides this you can also find good third party - free - software for it: for tracking, listen to and watching media, a Mapsource like app to talk to Google Earth ("Google-Tomtom"), etc. In my point of view no doubt the best choice!
Note that the nüvi 360 is nearly twice as expensive as the TomTom ONE. However, you need to keep in mind a few things:
1) There's no Text-To-Speech on the TomTom ONE as there is on the nüvi.
2) The TomTom ONE doesn't support hands-free Bluetooth capabilities as the nüvi 360 does.
The TomTom ONE's Bluetooth capabilities are specifically used to tether the unit to a mobile phone in order to use it's GPRS connection to connect to the Internet so that the unit can obtain traffic and weather reports (i.e. take advantage of their "Plus" services). However, one HUGE thing to note is that they ONLY support a very limited number of mobile phones for this. I'm guessing the reason is that not all mobile phones can support the serial Bluetooth profile that is required for a device like the TomTom ONE to access the phone's GPRS connection over Bluetooth.
3) The TomTom ONE uses TeleAtlas maps whereas the nüvi uses NavTeq.
Enough said in my book! ;-)
I spotted the new TomTom ONE in my local BestBuy store. I'm still not for TomTom considering the accident of TomTom in general.
I recently acuired a TOMTOM one for x-mas but i dont know if it would work for what i need it for, im a geocaher, and while there are more suitable models for that, would a TOMTOM allow me to input a set of coordinates manually and guide me to it? I could reallyt use an answer please e-mail me
I got a tomtom One for a christmas gift. I just recently tried to use it. Everytime I have tried to use it, I have had to reset it. I always get a message waiting for a valid GPS signal. How can I get this this to work? I did also notice that my tomtom One did not come with a memory card. Is the card necessary to get it working?