TomTom ONE XL-S Review
TomTom ONE XL-S 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
TomTom XLS is generally similar to the XL, with the exception of the computer voice for the street names. If you have another voice for directions, you will not pick the “S” function, the exact same direction as the XL version. It is not mentioned in the instructions and it took me a few days to find a solution why the British voice that I love wouldn’t give the names of the streets. In addition, the URLs on the TomTom website is not updated for the XLS, or the manual. The website they provide leads to dead-end page. Conclusion, this is still my favorite over the Garmin products, however it would be pleasant if they included a screen cover.
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Benefits
- ONE XL-S finds the satellites speedily and maintains signal. The Garmin nuvi 200W took around 3 minutes nearly every time from a power-up start. The user interface is beautiful and has many more features than the Garmin.
- POI database (such as POI categories, it’s – it lacks some of the major U.S. retail chains) is more current than the Garmin which I bought at the same time.
- It also gives you QWERTY keyboard mode that Garmin 200W does not!
Minus
- The graphics are a little grain compared with Garmin
- Bluetooth is worthless, works only for data transmission/reception and even with a very limited number of phones. You can’t use it as a handsfree.
- If you have a wrong turn or pass on your destination or do anything to pass by your destination on a 2-lane road, it will not inform you to turn back – you will be navigated through the next set of crossroads. In rustic areas, this could mean a 20 mile journey instead of going back 200 meters.
- The text-to-speech works very unpredictable. Some name it speaks very nice but a terrible lack of other, so you can not understand it. Moreover it informs street names around the quarter mile before and then just say left or right when you are truly at a crossroads and want the street name change. This is irritating.
- There is an SD card slot. But the device works only with SD card slot or internal memory. Which means that you must load all data in the internal memory to SD card, which takes over about an hour because of the extremely slow data rate. And the internal memory is almost full so forget all the upgrades except you must have at least a 2GB or more SD card
- Oddly TomTom is not aware of major U.S. retailer Toys R Us, Payless Shoes etc. Even if after I update the device with U.S. Retail POI database file.
TomTom ONE XL-S Good But Not Great.
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