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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £27.52
You Save: £22.47 (45%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 2239
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8 x 4.7 x 1.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of the product.
MPN: 9V00.017
Model: 9V00.017
UPC: 636926018524
EAN: 0636926018524
ASIN: B000W3H2A6
Release Date: September 16, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Rubbish May 22, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the most expensive bit of wire that you will ever buy. I cannot get a signal within 10 miles of my house. If I drive up the A1 or M1 I do get a signal but the report has not changed in the last six weeks that I have been using these routes. I came across one major road junction which had been closed for three weeks by roadworks, but my expensive bit of wire did not know about it.
Save your money, this is a complete joke and should be reported to Trading Standards.
 Tom Tom One RDS Receiver April 9, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I bought this item with some trepidation after reading some pretty negative reviews. However, I found it easy to set up and reception (in the NE of England at least) seems to be better than most reported. My aerial runs from from the centre of the dashboard along the bottom of the windscreen and then up the drivers side windscreen, tucked into the trim to hide it and make it look better. On the subject of automatic re-routing, this function can be disabled so re-routing is only done when the user wants it.
One issue I've not seen reported elsewhere is that when incidents are reported the system seems to build in delays automatically. For example, when travelling from York to Manchester Airport via the M1/M62 over the Easter weekend incidents of snow on the road and high winds were showing along approximately 16-20 miles of the M62. The Tom Tom added nearly 2 hous of delay onto the estimated time of arrival. Having checked the Highways Agency website before we left I was pretty confident that there were minimal delays, this was backed up by an encouraging lack of warnings from the Matrix signs. In the event there was no delay at all and we made the journey in about 1 hour 45 minutes (somewhat less than the 4 hours plus estimated by the Tom Tom at the start! So just a word of warning really, be aware that incidents reported by the TMS system do not always mean delays, but the Tom Tom seems to think it does, so use other means (traffic info on the radio or matrix signs to check if you can).
Anyway, I'm content with my purchase and will continue to use it as an 'aid' to navigation, which is what sat navs are for afterall!!
Works well but looks bad February 16, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Have just received my new 720T with TMC receiver. With all the security issues around sat nav's in cars this equipment is hardly discreet!
I have managed to run mine from behind the rear view mirror vertically & then down the side of the screen. This looked untidy so have managed to hide behind headlining. However this works very well & I have updates about 75% of time.
So not the best to look at, added interest from theives but good performance overall.
RDS-TMC Tomtom January 18, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
As previous comments, when this picks up signal, it is perfect. Mine is in signal about 50%.
The big joy is that when it has identified a problem, the re-route is automatic. If it decides not to re-route, even if signal is lost, the delay counts down the distance fine.
No problems January 5, 2008
18 out of 20 found this review helpful
I place the aerial for the receiver along the top of the dashboard and up the side of the windscreen (vertically) and found that it works. I took it on two journeys this week. On New Year's Day I took it to Glasgow and Greenock (bearing in mind I live in Edinburgh) and it picked up an accident further down the motorway (4 min delay) which was accurate (I also noticed warnings of fog on the Forth Bridge). The difficulty was that I pulled in to Heart of Scotland services on the M8 and the info on the accident was lost (as I veared off route) and thought that the accident was cleared, but it was accurate with only a 5 min delay at the accident site. NOTE- you have to plan a route before you can use it.
The next day I took it from Edinburgh to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York and Doncaster (then back to Edinburgh). It quickly picked up roadworks on the A68 in Midlothian (narrow lanes where the new road is being built) but picked up roadworks with a contraflow near Scotch Corner which had finished. For some reason it did not pick up a small batch of roadworks near Wakefield on the A1(M) or roadworks with a speed restriction on the A720 Edinburgh Bypass which are major roads.
My device tunes in to several stations (Forth One (local Edinburgh), Metro (local Newcastle) as well as Classic FM). It maintained a signal most of the time (except in the Scottish Borders and Northumberland) where radio signals are poor anyway. I will admit that I haven't tried it in the rush hour yet!!
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