Harsh TomTom review

I agree. I barely used my bf's cousins TomTom and I hated it. I love my Garmin so much. I bought my mom one for Christmas and we used it on our trip down to Fl. Worked wonderfully.

It is unfortunate that you had such a bad experience. I own both a Garmin and a TomTom. I have been very satisfied with my GO 930. The routing is excellent most of the time. No GPS is perfect, and my Garmin has made mistakes as well.

Some of your frustration is based on the maps, not the unit itself.

That said, I still prefer TomTom's routing over Garmin's; but to each his own.

Enjoy your Garmin.

I've been using my tomtom go for a year now and am glad with it. Routing has been pretty good; but it is always a good idea to calculate an alternative route to see if the alternative route is shorter or not. If you put the option for fastest route calculation, it might tell you a somewhat longer route (very rarely) for the sake of saving a minute or two.
The implementation of IQ route is a nice feature. The expected time of arrival has always been spot on for me (even if I cross the speed limits, it usually is right most of the time!)

tom tom going down...

I certainly hope that isn't the case. While I myself own a Garmin, I realize that competition is a good thing for consumers and I wouldn't want to see only one major manufacturer in any product.

I'm sure your bf's cousins TomTom would have worked wonderfully as well for your trip with your mom to Florida.

Your kidding right?

worst TTS ever.bethany rd TomTom TTS beeethany rd thats just one example of many negative things i hate about tomtom

even with TTS on it doesn't say the name of the street 1st just 400yard/feet turn left then when u get VERY close to turn it say the name of the street

i don't have any of these issues with garmin

I think it really depends on the TomTom you have. I have a 930 and I really like it. I like the fact that I can customize it a lot. Garmin can not do that. I can add programs to it also if I chose to. Is it perfect NO, but to me it edged out the Garmin.

i'd be so pissed. i wanna think its funny but if that happened to me i'd get violent with that thing.

Some of the things he mentions are not true. It does show the name of the next street on the top right.

It does turn off with the ignition.

And you can rearrange the screen to be less cluttered. I find the info very useful or I turn it off.

XL-S model turn off/on with the ignition?

i whole heartedly agree that we should have more than 1 manufacture to keep price in check (reasonable)

It does keep prices real. More importantly, it encourages innovation and quality.

I have not used a TomTom extensively myself, just in the store but can say my friend who does, wanted to get a Garmin after seeing how much better the TTS is and the routing.

However, I will say Garmin also sometimes has weird routing, and often will route you back differently than when you went. (With traffic consideration off)

That's interesting, because the TomTom routing was one of the reasons I chose it over Garmin. Especially when you create trip routes (or itineraries in the TomTom). If you want to force a route through a specific town, Garmin will try to take you to the city center, whereas TomTom will route you through that city but keep you on the main highway, which is what I want.

I love my Garmin and have never used a TomTom. I feel good knowing I have the best.

thanks for the info

During the time that I waited for my new Nuvi885t to arrive, I had to use a Tom-Tom and was quite happy with its performance, I even liked the screen.
But I am a Nuvi Nut and just used it for the basic functions needed.
My old Nuvi 760 which was stolen from my van, hence the need for a new one took me onto a dead end access road in Chicago, while mapping my hotel when I visited two years ago, but I have come to realize that everything has its bugs and that nothing is perfect, we just learn to not go down that same road twice expecting different results.
Enjoy the one you like the best but don't fall in love with any, and remember that pretty soon a map upgrade will solve the problem you now face.

That statement always makes me laugh, thanks for the chuckle!