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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: $214.88
You Save: $135.07 (39%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  166 reviews
Sales Rank: 2674
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 4.7 x 1.2 x 3.4
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:
Beginner friendly January 1, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
It's a great GPS for beginners. I first used it to go from New york city to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It brought me to an exit which has construction going on and it did not know and just shows UNNAMED ROAD. So I got lost for a bit. Once I went to a small street it recalculated and gave me so much turns to reach my final destination. I turned it off and did it again and it gave me another way, a better way. I think it was part my fault coz I accidentally entered yes when it was asking if I want to skip tolls. But, feel confident because no matter where it instructs you to go, you are going to reach your destination, only longer if you don't know alternative ways to do so.
 Good But Not Great.... December 31, 2007
171 out of 175 found this review helpful
I have this and used side by side with a Garmin 200 W for several weeks before returning the Garmin. Overall this is a good product but a few annoying bugs keep it from being great...here are the pros and cons
Pros
It finds the satellites quickly and keeps the signal. The garmin took 2-3 minutes almost every time from a power up start (this was the deal killer)
The user interface is nicer and has a lot more options than the garmin.
The POI database (such as the POI categories it actually has - it is missing several major US retail chains - see below) is more up to date than the Garmin I bought at same time.
Allows you to set the keyboard to QWERTY mode which the Garmin did not.
cons
The graphics are a bit grainy compared to the garmin
The bluetooth is useless, works only for data transmission/reception and that too with very limited number of phones. No, you cannot use it as a handsfree.
If you take a wrong turn or pass by your destination or do anything to pass by your destination on a 2 lane road, it will not tell you to turn around - it will navigate you through the next set of intersections. In rural areas this can mean a 20 mile trip instead of going back 200 yards.
The text to speech works very unpredictably - it pronounces some name very nicely but mangles others horribly such that you can't recogonize it.
Also it announces street names about a quarter mile before and then simply says turn left or right when you are actually at an intersection and want the street name to turn into. This is annoying. Very annoying.
There is an SD card slot. However the unit works either exclusively with the SD card slot or with the internal memory. Which means that you have to reload everything in internal memory onto the SD card which takes about an hour because of the incredibly s-l-o-w data transfer rates.
Also the internal memory is pretty much full so forget about any upgrades unless you spring for at least a 2 GB or more SD card
Strangely, TomTom doesn't know about major US retail chains like Toys R Us, Payless Shoes etc. This even after I updated the unit with the US Retail POI database file
The color schemes available on the unit and online are completely weird. Seems to have been done by people with zero taste and sensiblity.
The internal battery is useless in cold weather (i.e. if you leave the unit in the car in winter). This after a few weeks. It either dies in a few minutes or doesn't fire up at all. Will have to see how it performs in the summer.
The brightness and contrast are so-so in daylight compared to the garmin 200 w
 Easy to use for mom & dad! December 30, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Purchased the Tom Tom One XL-S for 70 year old parents. We needed something EASY to use and large enough for them to see. We took it on a 460 mile test run and it worked very well and was easy to use. The only problem we had was in trying to find a post office in rural South Carolina...it kept leading us to intersections with no post office. It was good at finding restaurants and gas stations, however, which is what they will be using it for. The ETA was reasonably accurate, we always beat it but it may not have taken into account the different speed limit in different states.
 Buggy Maps and Not Really Mac Compatible December 29, 2007
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
On a trip to one of the built-in Points of Interest (The NY Hall of Science), my Tomtom XL-S told me to go in the wrong direction through a one way loop in the front of the museum. Then it told me to connect to the highway by going through the paid parking lot at the museum. My wife was onboard with the TomTom until that happened. Now she's back to paper street maps.
So I tried to fix the maps by downloading the latest ones. The package comes with a code for a free download of the latest maps if done within 30 days of first using the unit. Guess what? The link on the coupon now directs me to download TomTom Home 2.0 in order to update the maps. The problem is, there is no Mac version of 2.0. So there are no updates for me. Why advertise about Mac compatibility and then lie about it?
One last thing. On the TomTom website, the pulldown help menu does not list the TomTom XL-S model at all.
UPDATE: Looks like you can block out streets that don't work (such as the ones in the crazy TomTom suggestion above to drive through a parking lot).
UPDATE 2: I have no idea why this unit works on some days and not others. On a recent trip to Jersey City I had 4+ satellites communicating with the GPS. All I wanted was for the device to take me home. It was completely confused and kept drawing my location wrong (such as in the river). Again, this did not impress my passengers.
TomTom One XL . S December 29, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A great GPS unit for the car. The wide screen made it easy to see the map. The spoken street names and directions before you have to make a turn is great! I am a truck driver and the few times I used it in the truck it work great also.
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