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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: $218.00
You Save: $131.95 (38%)
New (13) Used (3) Refurbished (5)
Avg. Customer Rating:  157 reviews
Sales Rank: 1472
Color: Silver
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4.3
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
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:
 This Navigator is GREAT! July 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's easy to use and I love the touch screen. I'd highly recommend getting a TomTom if you're interested in a navigator.
A great piece of technology at a great price July 15, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Tom Tome One XL-S is the first GPS I've owned. What a useful, fun and easy to use piece of technology. Free map updates, a wide range of free sounds, voices, wallpapers and icons, an easy to use interface...what's not to like!
I've read some of the complaints here, and honestly don't be swayed away. Most of the complaints are experienced no matter which GPS you are buying. If your device isn't leaving you enuf time to change lanes, you're driving too fast! The computerized voice isn't perfect, it mispronounces "bridge" as "branch", but it is well above 90% accurate in pronouncing street names. The cool thing about it is, the voice actually changes expression. Personally, the "famous voices" and other human recorded voices like the mullet man, are hokey and using the computerized voice to pronounce the street names is the whole point of buying this unit. Otherwise, you might as well buy the Tom Tom One or Tom Tom One XL.
I did alot of research before buying. Everyone said.."Get the Garmin". Well, do the math and compare features and you'll come to same conclusion I did.
 TomTom ONE XL-S July 12, 2008
5 out of 5 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.
ADDENDUM: After owning and using this unit for two months, I finally got up my nerve and installed TomTom Home on my computer, which allowed me to download and install updated software and several new features. For example, I now have multiple options for my "travel indicator" -- the default blue arrow is still available, but so are icons of a sports car, family sedan, racing car, and motorcycle. I also found that someone had created and uploaded an icon of a BMW 3-series, which is exactly what I drive, so that's what now displays on my TomTom! And I discovered an option through "Preferences" to have the unit shut down automatically when external power is removed (such as when the car is turned off); I'm not sure if this option was available before, but it sure helps prevent drained batteries in the TomTom when I park and leave the car. You still have to turn the unit on by hand after starting the car, but it's about as much bother as with my wife's Garmin, which starts up "automatically"...but won't display anything until you touch "Agree" under a screen warning you not to enter information while driving -- and it does this EVERY TIME it starts (and this feature cannot be disabled in the Garmin).
I downloaded a pleasant British female voice for my TomTom, which I prefer to listen to when navigating, even though it disables the text-to-speech option, which is only available with the computer-generated voice. Some of the computer's pronunciations were way off, however -- it inexplicably pronounced "West" as "Razz," so that "Westbury" sounded like "raspberry." It also pronounced "Cuba Road" as "Cubb-a Road," and dragged out the names of numbered routes, so that Route 495 became "Route Four-Hundred-and-Ninety-Five."
The new software claims to find satellites faster, but the improvement is subtle at best. One thing it did change that I did NOT like was that it screwed up the on-screen compass, which previously looked like a real compass and displayed actual directions with the appropriate letters -- "NW" for northwest and so on. With the new software, the compass shrank to a tiny circle with a "V"-shaped arrow, with no letters to indicate direction -- and while it found north and south with no problem, it clearly reversed east and west, which had never happened before. Since the new "compass" was essentially useless, I disabled it, and instead enabled a "Display direction" feature under "Preferences." This causes the unit to display the exact degrees that one is traveling with respect to a direction -- for example, "-30 degrees West." It's a bit too nautical, but at least I can read my travel direction at a glance instead of trying to decipher a compass heading.
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.
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