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| TomTom ONE 3rd Edition 3.5-Inch Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $128.99
You Save: $70.96 (35%)
New (11) Used (2) Refurbished (3) from $98.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  678 reviews
Sales Rank: 266
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 320 x 240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 3.8 x 1 x 3.2
nv:Type: Receiver
Display: LCD
Display: TFT
Touch Screen: Yes
Voice: Yes
Battery Type: Internal Litium-Ion Battery
Battery Life: 2 hours
MPN: One 3rd Edition
Model: One 3rd Edition
UPC: 636926017428
EAN: 0636926017428
ASIN: B000U9WVW6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't Buy this GPS February 18, 2008
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
Terrible routing. Maps not current. Estimated time of arrival way off.
Useless.
Good GPS on the second try February 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first one I ordered had the problem where it started up with a blank screen unless I pressed reset first. I exchanged it for a new one which works fine. (Thanks, Amazon.) Since I live in the northern part of the country it was an advantage for me to have a GPS that includes maps of the US and Canada. The other GPSs in this price range did not include Canada. If not for getting the defective unit on the first try, I would have given this GPS five stars. Some people don't like that it doesn't say the street names, but I am pleased with how this one works. The street names are on the screen and easy to read, and the spoken directions are clear and easy to follow.
Like a music virtuoso who sometimes ignores audience requests! February 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was deeply impressed when I was first handed a TomTom One Version 3 in June 2007. It accurately took us over the river and through the woods along winding, Upstate New York country roads between a wedding site and the reception site. When It said, "You have reached your destination," our car was ten feet from the sign of the restaurant where the reception was held. Awesome! With printed MapQuest or Yahoo Maps, we would certainly have gotten lost and arrived frazzled. Now, after a year with my TomTom, and I am still in love with it. But, like a favorite relative, it can be annoying and even intractable at time. But considering that the built-in GPS systems of five years ago cost thousands of dollars, ran off 5-CD changers, cost thousands of dollars, and required $75-$150 annual map updates, the TomTom (now around $160) is a fantastic value. Not to mention that all map updates are FREE online, and that you can move it from vehicle #1 to vehicle #2 just by plugging it into the cigarette lighter outlet. Is it perfect? No. Do I love it? Yes. Would I buy the next version? Probably - depends on the extent of the upgrades and how the competition (Garmin, for example) has upgraded their units. Richard N. Cote, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464.
Good points:
*Crisp, clear color display that the owner can personalize to taste.
*Adjustable volume and brightness controls enable you to adapt it to day/night and sound preferences.
*Map zooms let you adjust for long-range driving (large overview) or short-range, densely-populated urban environments with frequent turns.
*If, while using it, you make a wrong turn, it immediately recalculates the way to get you back on the right route. Typically, it takes less than six seconds to do so. And unlike your wife or husband, it never chews you out for having taken the wrong turn!
*All GPS systems get their position information from a number of GPS satellites in geosynchronous orbit around the earth. When turned on in my car, it usually takes 15-20 seconds to lock onto the satellites, but I haven't had it lose them yet while underway.
*It comes with two English male voices, two English female voices, and one each in Spanish. There are other voices available for $4.95 each. My favorite was - for a week - the low, sexy voice of "Sylvia," a seductress who, at the end of your trip, purrs, "You have reached your destination. But don't stop yet....!" After a week, I tired of her and went back to "Richard," an American male voice with no "attitude"!
*I comes with complete maps of the U.S. and England, with maps of most of Europe available by download for a reasonable fee.
*It gives you accurate advance "when-to-turn" info, taking into account how fast you are going. It includes warning you well in advance when to change lanes to avoid being forced off your route by traffic. I think this is awesome, especially when navigation spaghetti-like urban Interstate highway routes involving frequent, high-speed turns.
*It rarely tells you to drive into lakes or through swamps and forests with no roads, but this is not always the case! A couple of times when using MapQuest, I would have needed a boat or ATV if I had actually followed the maps that MapQuest gave me.
*The built-in battery will run the unit for about two hours without being plugged in. And you can back up everything in its memory on your PC via the TomTom to PC USB cable. It enables the TomTom unit to talk to the TomTom "mother ship" on the Internet, and download map and software updates as often as you like.
Weak and bad points:
*It doesn't recognize non-public roads well. If you punch in a store's address, and the store is in a huge shopping mall, it will tell you that you've arrived - even though you have to drive another quarter mile and make eight more turns before you are actually at the store.
*The suction-cup mount won't stick to most dashboards (with their fake-leather veining) - only to glass. I prefer a dashboard mount, which takes up less visual space, and in addition, my Honda van had such a sharp windshield slope that the suction cup base wouldn't work on it. The TomTom unit comes with a 3.5" round plastic plate with adhesive strips that enable it to be mounted on dashboards, but I found that the suction cup, even when moistened, often would not hold the TomTom in place on the flat plastic surface and it fell onto the car floor. I solved the problem by putting Velcro strips on the top surface of the plastic plate and the same on the bottom of the suction cup. That home-made fix works like a charm. BTW: these GPS units are very attractive to thieves. Put yours under the seat and out of sight when you leave the car.
*If you know better than it does about the best way to get to there from here, TomTom may disagree--and is very hard to train. Although it took us flawlessly from a Charleston, SC suburban address along a 275-mile route to a suburban Charlotte, NC address, it won't give me reasonable directions from the Charleston, SC suburb to a downtown Charleston, SC address!
*Although it has a "calculate different route" option, and may come up with six alternate routes, the "best" one may not be one of them. If you know better than it does, just go your own way for a few blocks and it will usually catch on and recalculate the proper directions.
*Although it gives the "when-to-turn" directions in advance, it will say, "After 400 yards, bear right, then take the highway," instead of "After 400 yards, take the on-ramp for Interstate 526 East." The screen clearly shows the "Interstate 526 East" red-and-blue symbol, but TomTom can't convert the visual information it displays into speech commands. Maybe the next version will.
*As you will read below in the other reviews, the how-to-use-it documentation is AWFUL. It explains virtually nothing about how to use many features. Nothing. If you buy a TomTom, be prepared to poke a lot of touch-screen buttons if you want to use the more advanced features, because you won't find any instructions built into the unit or on the TomTom online site.
 Tom Tom GPS February 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I can't say enough about this great GPS. The price was great and it knows everything. I have yet to have it make a mistake. Five star all the way.
TomTom One 3rd Edition GPS February 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Works great.Iam using it on my motorcycle with a Ram mount I purchased from GPS City. Looks good and works like a dream.
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