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TomTom ONE v3 Great Britain | 
 enlarge | Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
Buy New: £99.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 70
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7 x 6.8 x 3.5
Legal Disclaimer: Layer One UK does not offer any warranty other than the one imposed by the manufacturer. Consequently, the warranty conditions proposed by Layer One UK will be an exact copy of the manufacturers.
MPN: 1N01060
Model: 1N01060
UPC: 636926017374
EAN: 0636926017374
ASIN: B000TXHDM6
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews: Read 53 more reviews...
 Good Unit, Shame about the Company September 3, 2008
Brilliant unit, does exactly what it says on the box, and so easily too! But, the LORD help you should you get a problem.
The Web site is a veritable maze unless you want to buy something. My first problem was when I purchased a year's subscription for speed camera updates - they would not install on my unit. Having (eventually) found the support page on the web site I asked for assistance to get my purchase installed - TomTom never answered!
Once the guarantee had expired, the unit suddenly started to reset, losing all my favourite locations and my home address! This usually happened as I switched the unit off, but sometimes happened in mid-journey!
TomTom this time responded to my plea for help and sent me a box to return my unit for repair. They opened an RMA for me on th web site which acts a bit like a bulletin board, creating a communication thread for me to talk to TomTom support. My unit was returned and TomTom (via the RMA) said they would repair it for 56. I paid, TomTom replaced the speaker and returned the unit to me. The fault, however, was not cured!
I advised TomTom (via the RMA)about this problem, and they said they were truly sorry and opened another RMA. Once the unit was returned TomTom said that the unit needed to be replaced at a cost of 116 (more than a new one!)
I resonded that I considered that the previous week's repair was not fit for purpose and asked for my 56 to be refunded.
TomTom responded by closing the RMA threads other than the payment link.
The web site contains no GB address or telephone number that I can find and the repair address is a third party.
I shall buy a Garmin!
 Clear, concise and packed with features August 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like my TomTom - it's a neatly-designed unit, finds a signal quickly, the maps and display are very clear and maps can be corrected and updated. The directions are precise with clear indications of which lane to be in at tricky junctions and, very useful for me, it has a speed warning which indicates if I am exceeding the speed limit for the road I'm on.
However, I've possibly been unlucky with mine because my first unit would switch itself on at random when not in use and when in use would freeze at the start-up screen although I could operate it using my PC (not that this is any help because I don't need a sat-nav when sitting in my office!). It was returned exchanged as faulty and ... hey-presto, the replacement unit also switches itself on occasionally when not in use. It hasn't yet frozen at the start-up screen in the month that I've been using it, but I'm clinging onto my proof of purchase just incase. Apart from that, it's just what I hoped for with more features than I anticipated.
But, if you're planning to use it overseas, be warned. There is no SD slot to install additional maps and only 512mb memory.
 Not worth all the hype August 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
TomTom ONE v3 Great Britain
I bought my Son a Navman S30 which is excellent & was going to buy one for my self when Amazon had the Tom Tom V3 at only 75 so I of course went for that because after all they are reckoned to be the best arn't they !
Give me the Navman any day.
Don't get me wrong generally it is very efficent BUT for the following -
When you're approaching a junction where you need to turn left or right visually it gives you plenty of warning but sometimes the voice only pipes up and says "turn left" just as you're passing the turning ! Not good if you do not keep checking the visual display.
Whilst travelling on the M25 (for the first time) 4 times it went completely silent and did NOT warn me verbally which lane I should take = hence took a wrong road & 10 mile detour before it got me back to where I had left the M25.
In rural locations it will quite happily direct you up the most ridiculous 'lanes' that are only suitable for 4 wheel drive vehicles ! I had one pig of a trip where it took me up numerious lanes (some only 6 foot wide) and so steep I was down into 1st gear with no chance of turning round ! Grrr. Took nearly 1 hour to get to a large town that should have only been 8 miles and about 10 - 15 minutes drive from the A road I had been on.
They really ought to sort their mapping system out to warn you of such nigh on impossible to use roads, you certainly need to use caution if driving a truck / Motor home / or towing a caravan.
Re: the Speed Camera part - in a recent 650 mile long touring holiday it only warned of 1 Speeed trap ! ! ! So you still need to keep your eyes peeled for them dam Yellow Boxes :-)
All that apart it worked pretty well BUT I recommend you always preview a route BEFORE you go so that you can try and eliminate the odd problem like these, and you still carry a map / Atlas as backup. OR better still buy a Navman instead - all Sat Navs can suffer the problems I've mentioned but I reckon the Navman is better & is usually cheaper.
 Easy to use August 11, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We used this for the first time yesterday - it was easy to use, even when we took a few wrong turns it put us on track. Has a selection of choices for voices and gives advance notice of direction with reminders. We got from A-B in no time. Very good for learner drivers and is so compact it fits into a small handbag. Only downside is that there is no carry case supplied with it which means you have to pay extra and also whilst not neccessary - the in house charger is not supplied so you can only charge and use in the car.
 Poor. Poor. Poor. July 31, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Such a disappointment. I bought this because it was a little more expensive than a similar Garmin model, and I assumed that if I wanted something a bit better, I would have to pay 20 more. Well, you live and learn. Tom Tom will tell you that you get to do all sorts of things with your GPS. And you can:
You can add voice packs to make your GPS sound like John Cleese... But you can't get a co-ordinate readout in British National Grid.
You can adjust your cursor so that your car looks like a red sports car on the display - but you can't tell the GPS to avoid built up areas at rush hour.
You can connect to your computer to update the maps - But you can't draw your route on an onscreen map and get the GPS to guide you along it.
You can set it to make a funny noise like a cow when ever you break the speed limit - but you can't save your route mileages to help with fuel returns at the end of the month.
You can even buy a sexy woman's voice for a few quid on the website. But you can't "trackback" a previous route, or expect the GPS to learn that you actually prefer a different route home than the one it always picks.
I am constantly dismayed by the unintelligent way the unit tries to drag me onto motorways at peak time, or the way the "calculate alternative route" will only calculate a tiny variation into the route. Yes, it finds addresses, but it is SUCH an unintelligent piece of kit that the focus group they used to create it must have been a fishtank.
In traffic the graphic display lags so much you can easily find yourself taking wrong turns. I don't want funny voices. I just want the same functionality in this GPS as I have in my hand-held Garmin Etrex, and it's not even close.
I need to be able to look at an OS map and see where I am. I need a time-of-arrival that UPDATES with the speed I have been doing, rather than assuming, in the middle of a five mile tailback, that I can do 70mph at any given moment. I need a night time display that's not three times brighter than my speedo. I need a scroll feature that lets me plot a vague area on a map and say "avoid this area" or "go via this region", rather than me "Travel Via" functions demanding a house number.
Sigh.
Look. By all means, take it shopping. Use it to give the kids an answer to "are we there yet?" but shop around. Don't make the mistake I made and think that better is usually more expensive.
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