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| TomTom ONE XL-S 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: $349.95
Buy New: $200.00
You Save: $149.95 (43%)
New (10) Used (2) Refurbished (1)
Avg. Customer Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 343
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 4.7 x 1.2 x 3.4
nv:Type: Receiver
Touch Screen: Yes
Voice: Yes
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Type: Internal Litium-Ion Battery
Battery Life: 2 hours
Antenna: High sensitivity GPS chipset
MPN: 1S00.082
Model: 1S00.082
UPC: 636926018432
EAN: 0636926018432
ASIN: B000WEOWM6
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 TomTom ONE XL-S July 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The TomTom ONE XL-S is a good product with a few annoying quirks. It features a widescreen display and text-to-speech feature (announces street names), which are among its strong points. But I also use a Garmin Nuvi in my wife's car, and it has several features that the TomTom lacks. For example, the Garmin turns itself on when the car is started, and off when the engine in turned off; the TomTom must be manually turned on and off. I have drained the rechargeable battery more than once on the TomTom by forgetting to shut it when I got out of the car. Also, the Garmin automatically switches to a dark background at official sunset time; the TomTom has several "night backgrounds" to choose from, but night colors have to be manually selected when it gets dark. And the Garmin has several dialects built in to choose from (I chose British English); the TomTom has a menu for different dialects, but anything other than American English must be downloaded from TomTom's website. And the text-to-speech feature is only available with one computer-generated voice.
The TomTom takes about 2 minutes to find satellites when it's first turned on, but after that it's fairly quick, even when turned off for an hour while you're grabbing a bite to eat. The Garmin is temperamental -- sometimes it finds satellites right away, and sometimes it takes 5 minutes or more. Also, the sequence for programming in a destination with the TomTom is more logical -- select city and state, select street, select address. With the Garmin, you select a city, then an address, then the street -- sounds minor, but it makes it more difficult to "fudge" a location if you've got the address wrong by a few numbers.
Finally, the Garmin uses a little car as "home base," while the TomTom uses a giant arrow -- matter of taste. And the TomTom's map makes a smooth rotation during turns, while the Garmin's map makes 2 or 3 big jerky movements while turning. Between the two, I slightly prefer the TomTom -- but it's pretty close.
Good Buy July 4, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought this unit for my daughter. The best part about it is how easy it is to use. I use a Garmin myself, and like it, but I believe the TomTom is easier to use right out of the box. It is quick and easy to look up addresses or locations. The display is clear and detailed. For the money I think it is a great buy.
 She will not talk! July 4, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Had it less than 4 months... she quit talking. That's right. The computer generated, turn by turn quit talking. I am trying to contact Amazon now to see what's next. How do I get'r talking or get my money back.
Great Product... July 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Purchased unit several days ago after an exhaustive internet search(I drive my wife crazy with the research)Am very pleased so far with it. It is very easy to use out of the box and located the satellites on my initial startup in less than 20 seconds, have driven around and no problems with the suction mount, I use a stylus from my phone to click on the menues and it works great voice is loud and clear and can be heard in car with radio at "normal" levels. People who complain about not understanding the text to speech really makes no sense, the voice is synthesized how could it possibly correctly pronounce every street name in the USA? BTW if you glance at the screen it tells you the name of the street. Cant wait to use it in a totally unknown city, it has shown me what I consider to be longer routes to destinations but if I was unfamiliar with the area I would be happy it got me there. The only real complaint I had was with the HOME software, downloaded it from the TOMTOM site, it took several times before it recognized my unit and when I attemted to backup my data I had to try like 10 times before it finnaly backed up but other than that the unit is a true winner.
Fills my needs June 28, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is my first GPS unit of any kind. Overall, I am very please with how well it works. Having it for just a month now, I am still exploring its capabilities. I had heard of problems with GPS if you don't follow its directions, but have seen none of that. If I choose a different route, say, around a traffic problem, than the one suggested, it just recalculates and shows me the way. The one thing that I can downgrade the unit on is the text to speech. While it is helpful about 80% of the time, it does have a tendency to mangle the street names. If the name is a straight up name, it has no problem. But, sometimes it destroys the name. It's a good thing that you can glance at the screen and see the written name. Without that as a backup, there are times that I would not have known what it was talking about. An example would be the street name "Pacifica". The other day I got what sounded like "pa-fee-ka". And when I drive a little north of here, it destroys the word "Sacramento". But these are really minor things and I would not say that it is a problem.
Overall, I would have to rate this unit very high. I drive around finding address every day and this little thing has saved me a lot of time. I have gotten to the point that I don't even think about where I'm going, I just let TomTom take me there. It's never wrong
TomTom ONE XL-S 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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