tomtom xxl 550m

 

looking at this unit at buy.com and a little confused . everybody else says its a 5 inch screen and tech specs at the bottom of their page say its a 4.3 inch .any tomtom xxl 550m owners out there ?
mike

XXL Units

mrpkd wrote:

looking at this unit at buy.com and a little confused . everybody else says its a 5 inch screen and tech specs at the bottom of their page say its a 4.3 inch .any tomtom xxl 550m owners out there ?
mike

ALL XXL units have a 5" screen. It appears that Best Buy has corrected their typo error.

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thank you for the reply . i was told this was the manufacturers info they posted. it was on buy.com and i ordered anyway because everything on the internet said it was 5 inch and all (as you stated )xxl are 5 inch screens. 119.99 out the door so hopefully will like the tomtom (have 2 garmins)
mike

It should be fine

If you like your Garmin's then you should like the 550. It has the 'dumbed down' user interface. I chose the 540 because it has the full user interface like my other TomTom's.

XXL 540TM Safety Alerts

I also have the XXL 540TM. Having had Garmins for several years, I'm still trying to make the transition from Garmin to TomTom. But, it is getting better. (Still love/use my Garmins) I assume you are having the same problem with updating the Safety Alerts as I am. Not sure which map version that the XXL 550M has. In all probability it has the same version as the XXL 540. Since they are not providing updates to the Safety Alerts for the XXL 540 map version, I am having to download the Red Light/Speed Alerts from the POI Factory and convert the .csv file to .ov2 for the TomTom. Seems to be working well.

XXL map version

Yep, both models have USA, Canada and Mexico P 855.2934.

Bought a TOMTOM 540TM for $95 today.

tendriver wrote:

Yep, both models have USA, Canada and Mexico P 855.2934.

New Map

I hope the new units have a free map update as North America is now currently 860.3101

XXL 540 TM

I just bought a 540TM. Do you like the Safety Alerts better from the Tomtom or from Poifactory? I was going to order Poifactory for my Garmin 765T and was thinking of also updating the Tomtom.

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Ron

Tomtom map updates

When was 860.3101 released? I was told there would be a new release this month(August)

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Ron