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| Thread ID: 90094 | 2008-05-23 02:39:00 | Tomtom 720 review in June issue | afe66 (13778) | PC World Chat |
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| 671760 | 2008-05-23 02:39:00 | I've had a tomtom720 for a few months and have driven with it round Otago on a couple of road trips . It works well but the map is out of date in places . ie map shows me driving in a paddock rather than the road I am on and new bypasses not shown . This leads me to one of the disappointments I have . If you google this unit you will find the overseas versions has more features . Street names are read out to you, but not here probably because the difficulties of programing the Maori language . This I can accept . But the inability to modify the map - the much vaunted Mapshare feature - I find frustrating . For example speed zones and camera sites are simply wrong in Dunedin . I'm told that this will be fixed at some stage but I came accross a press release by the australiasian distributor from feb of this year describing the advantage ( . geekzone . co . nz/content . asp?contentid=7634" target="_blank">www . geekzone . co . nz) and nothing has happened yet . Has anyone heard anything about this? You can add points of interest (POI), and you can download 14k extra locations via the NZ Open GPS project (see forum for tomtom conversion) and Zunbu . So while the tomtom works well . Unless you definitely need the blutooth connectivity the tomtom 3xl is just as good and much much cheaper . A . |
afe66 (13778) | ||
| 671761 | 2008-05-23 02:52:00 | This is "little" New Zealand. Why would you need a GPS to find your way around it? You can almost throw a stone from one side to the other. USA or Europe I can understand the need for one. I have driven millions of Km's and in over 40 countries and NZ is a breeze. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 671762 | 2008-05-23 03:18:00 | Yes strickly speaking that true. But as I am going overseas and would use one there I thought I'd buy one here, to play with and then upload the overseas maps when I go. There is also a tech toy side to this that I am quite happy to admit but buying something you dont stictly need is probably common to many ppl who wander tech forums. Part of my compaint is against Press releases describing feature that the product doesn't have? A hint of false/misleading advertising. A. |
afe66 (13778) | ||
| 671763 | 2008-05-23 04:17:00 | GPS is never much use in the wop wops. In cities its fine. I imagine PCWorld tested it in Auckland. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 671764 | 2008-05-23 11:04:00 | This is "little" New Zealand. Why would you need a GPS to find your way around it? You can almost throw a stone from one side to the other. USA or Europe I can understand the need for one. I have driven millions of Km's and in over 40 countries and NZ is a breeze. Yes this was my first thought. NZ is so very simple to drive in, but I wonder how useful one of these devices is when driving in a city. I must admit I cannot see me replacing a simple city map with an electronic device. |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 671765 | 2008-05-24 03:42:00 | Wratterus, My concern only is that the Mapshare feature despite what is described in the Feb tomtom press release doesn't work in NZ. You can't correct the map. I freely acknowledge that you dont need a gps navigation system in nz because its very easy to navigate here. If I wasn't going overseas, I wouldn't buy one. Bought one for my parents to drive around uk+europe and they say its the reason why they are still married. No more backseat driver discussion and perfect for finding small B+B's in tiny villages as well as navigating big cities of france, germany and italy. A. |
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