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It has done the following on a few occasions: made me go in circles, told me to go the other way on a one-way street, wanted me to keep going straight when I reached a dead-end. It has never, EVER pinpointed a house exactly. Sure, it has free map updates, but I don't see any changes to them. I am planning a trip, but the directions it displays is an hour and a half longer, plus 100 miles more than directions I found on mapquest. I am going to buy a Garmin, which is a lot more accurate and reliable than this piece of garbage. I understand most GPS's will be a little off with some buildings, but this one is absolutely ridiculous.
The only positive thing I can think of is the custom themes you can add to it. Besides being wrong nearly 95% of the time, it almost always displays a longer route, even though I have fastest route selected. I have had this GPS for over a year, and am finally fed up with it. the list goes on and on.
This was a very good buy and we have used it for a long time now and love it.The price at Amazon was much better than anywhere we checked
Since I purchased this product, I don't worry about getting lost or arriving at my destinations timely.
I have tried to contact the company about getting it replaced and I have been told that the battery can't be replaced - yet they also state on their website that expected battery life is 1 year.that doesn't make much sense to me.Often times the directions are not accurate (they want me to drive through a road that does not exist, they don't know which streets are one-way or not) and I have updated my unit regularly to keep abreast of any changes.no difference.It often takes about 5 minutes to get satellite signals - regardless of where I am.I bought a Garmin Nuvi for my wife's car - what a difference. When I unplug the unit from the charger, the battery literally lasts only about 5 minutes at most. If I'm unable to successfully replace the battery on this unit on my own, I'll be buying a Garmin. I have had this for about 2 years. After just under a year the battery life has been HORRIBLE. It is much better.
It is interesting to note that on long-distance trips, both TomTom's give slightly different travel routes from each other. The voice is far more pleasant to listen to than the Garmin and the directions are far more direct. Garmin definitely can find more businesses than the TomTom and not just mom and pop stores, but big chain stores too like Home Depot, Lowe's, Walmart, etc.Overall we're very pleased with both and should one die, we will definitely shop TomTom again. We have a pair of these TomTom's and a Garmin Streetpilot 330 GPS. We only use the TomTom's. We bought them about 6 months apart from each other and even though we update both regularly, it still happens.The Garmin does beat the TomTom in only one appreciable way and that's in looking up businesses.
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