TomTom XL 335T Review
For someone who is deeply immersed in technology professionally, I still shun things for as long as possible. It became apparent that I needed something to prevent me from taking long printouts of directions with me for business travel. This was on a great Cyber Monday sale, so I bought it. I didn’t do a lot of research, but many of my coworkers have a GPS, and I hear their complaints.
The number one thing commented on for this GPS – if you miss a turn or intentionally go a different direction, it does not constantly yell “recalculating” at you. It just makes adjustments.
Overall, I’m happy with it. It’s fairly easy to use, although the keyboard doesn’t always recognize what I press (and I don’t have fat fingers). Traffic is great for some cities – amazingly it didn’t work at all in Kansas City in March of 2011. And it doesn’t have much (if any) info on roads that are not state or interstate freeways. Some highways come through, depending on the state. And my frustration in traffic is so much less when i have an idea of how much I will be delayed. I get a lot less worried when I know I’m going to be about 5 minutes late instead of having no clue what was happening. The estimated time of arrival has been disturbingly accurate.
The map corrections and sharing is wonderful. Most of the errors I have found are in newly developed areas where roads haven’t yet been built, or places where there has been recent construction that changed things. Highway entrances seems to be a common error in Colorado (but we have a LOT happening in the Metro area with construction).
The most annoying thing I have discovered is that when you have had a dramatic change in location while the power is off (on a plane, or you turn it off on the way home from somewhere because you know where you are going), then it can take a LONG time to find a satellite. I’ve waited for 10 minutes before, and that’s after the update that TomTom provided to speed up the process.
Of note – getting a dashboard mount that is portable is difficult. The screen sits pretty low, so any bean bags often sit too high to allow you to mount the screen. And the suction on this device is not fond of cold weather. I’ve found that if it’s less than 40 degrees, a slight bump in the road will cause it to come off the mount.
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