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NanaimoRick
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 Posted - 30 déc. 2009 : 22:13:14
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Thanks Kex, we appreciate it. Because the 2 TomTom units have so many similarities we are very interested in your views of the 340 and will be checking your thread regularly.
Thanks again. |
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SergZak
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Posted - 31 déc. 2009 : 17:22:33
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| A question, Rick...under normal nav mode (not navigating on a Go To), what does the green info banner display? The next upcoming cross street or the road you're currently on? I've read numerous reports that the 1xxx series has gone back to displaying the next upcoming cross street. With some of these reports, I really cannot tell if this has actually truly changed or if it's just user-reported error. I know I can trust your answer. |
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NanaimoRick
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Posted - 31 déc. 2009 : 17:41:11
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| Well actually neither, if you have a route planned (Where To -- Go) you will see the name of the street you will make your next turn onto. With no route planned you see the name of the street your on. |
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SergZak
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Posted - 01 janv. 2010 : 20:10:29
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Thanks Rick.  |
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BabyDoc
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Posted - 01 janv. 2010 : 22:26:08
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Is the 2-D view you see on the 1490T less detailed, even when maximally zooming, than the 2-D view seen on other Garmins? When I select the 2-D view on my 1490T, by going to Settings>Map>Map View>Track Up or North UP, the 2-D view selected has much less detail, than the similar 2-D or Brouse View brought up by tapping an empty spot on the 3-D view. In other words, with the 2-D brouse view, you CAN zoom in below 200 FT and see more road names as well as well as POIs on the map. The 2-D view obtained from selecting it in map view, doesn't allow you to zoom in very far at all and you can't see the POIs. Not only that, but the zoom level indicator isn't shown there as it is in the Brouse view.
I know there have been discussions elsewhere in the forum discussing how you get better road and poi details in the 2-D view than the 3-D view, and just maybe we may want to use this as our default navigational view instead of 3D view. However, it doesn't seem to be the case with the 1490T. Even if I can intermittantly use the 2-D view in brouse to find those details, I can't run it continuously while driving, because my car moves off the screen, and the screen won't change unless I move the map screen, which isn't something I wish to do while driving. What I don't understand is why the brouse 2-D view can show all these details, and the selected 2-D map view can't. You would have thought that if Garmin was uncluttering their maps in order that you should keep your eyes on the road more, why include the detail in the brouse 2-D view? The only way I can figure it out is maybe you shouldn't be using brouse except when you're not moving. In that way, you look at the details and don't see your car moving off the screen. Personally, I wish the 2-D view was more like the brouse view. Rick, what's your take on this?
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NanaimoRick
Canada
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Posted - 02 janv. 2010 : 01:01:06
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We really don't have any 'take' on the use of 2D or 3D mode as we simply don't care for 2D mode and never use it. Since our first Nuvi 350, which we bought in Nov. 2005, we have used 3D mode exclusively and only experimented with 2D/North Up/Track Up modes until we decided we liked 3D better. This is simply a personal preference,we know, and I'll see if we can spend some time on looking at the differences in upcoming days.
As far as street detail, or lack thereof, is concerned, we do notice the 1490 having much less detail than on our other Nuvi's. We personally don't have a great problem with the lack of detail as we don't really recall any time in the last 4 years of GPS usage that we actually needed the detail. It's interesting that there has been so much discussion about the lack of street name detail in the new Nuvi's as we don't find it much different than the detail we are seeing on the TomTom. In some cases the Nuvi may actually be showing a bit more detail than the 540s. We are traveling the next few days and will get some comparison shots, if possible. |
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BabyDoc
USA
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Posted - 03 janv. 2010 : 01:32:40
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If you want to see the greatest detail with the 1490T take a picture of the Brouse 2-D view, zoomed in to below 200 ft.
It does show quite a lot of useful road detail, expecially the name of the road you are traveling on while in navigational mode.
I have found this helpful in confusing situations when the road you are on changes its name going through different municipalities. This view also shows POI which don't show up on the 3-D view. While you can't drive with this view on continuously, at least, you can access it quickly enough when you need it by a tap on the 3-D screen. The only POIs that will show on the 3-D view, no matter how close you zoom, are the favorite POIs.
Never having had a TomTom, those comparison screen shots will be interesting. I am looking forward to them. Keep up the good work with this excellent ongoing review. |
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happy-traveler
USA
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 06:19:06
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Rick, looking forward to your ongoing review with the Mrs. as co-pilot. Stay safe and enjoy the journey.
I will be giving my TomTom a run for its money next week when I drive my daughter back to college in Fresno, a 7 hour drive from my home in Northern California. Really can't wait to see the lane guidance in action, as I'll have many different freeways/highwways to drive. I'm already familiar with the route, but the lane guidance will be a treat to experience.
A question to anyone who may know and my apology for asking here, but I cannot find the answer anywhere. Does the XXL S 540 have the speed/red light camera feature? The icon is on my XXL S under TomTom Services, so I'm thinking it does, but after downloading and installing the feature, my tapping the icon only asks me if I want to join the service, which is confusing, since I already have. My device doesn't tell me I already have the feature installed. I've downloaded TomTom HOME to my computer, logged in and downloaded the speed camera feature on TomTom HOME and then installed it on my TomTom and after installation, HOME says it is now on my "device" but I can't find it anywhere on my TomTom. A call to customer service was no help, as they told me the speed camera feature was only available in Europe. What??? I managed to download and install a new car symbol and computer voice with no problem, but 2 new map colors, a new arrival at destination tone and the camera feature are not on my device, although, TomTom HOME tells me they were installed. Sorry to be so long-winded, but I don't know how else to explain my problem. I'm stumped and don't know what else to do. I am, obviously, fairly new to the GPS world, so any/all help would be greatly appreciated. |
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NanaimoRick
Canada
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 19:32:28
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First we should apologize for being absent lately but it’s been a busy time. With this post we hope to begin to catch up.
We wanted to first of all give you our impression of some of the differences between the Nuvi 1490 and the TomTom 540s that we deal with every time we turn the devices on or at least as we use them on a daily basis:
Legal Warning
- As many of you know, every time you turn a Nuvi on, you are presented with a warning about using the device while driving, blah blah blah. Good advice but not something we need to see every time the unit starts up. The good news is that if you do nothing, the legal warning will go away and the normal main Where To? Screen will appear.
- The TomTom also has a legal warning but when it appears it doesn’t automatically disappear (at least in the time period we have waited for it to do so) and you must press “I Agree” to get rid of it.
- The good news with the TomTom is that it doesn’t always appear. What seems to happen, at least as we use this device, is that if you have had it calculate a route and then turn the device off, the warning doesn’t appear when you start it up again and the unit boots directly to the main map screen. With no route calculated we sometimes see the warning screen and sometimes we don’t, it seems the warning appears more frequently if satellite lock isn’t achieved immediately after the device is turned on. One time we always see the warning on the TomTom is when we disconnect the unit from our PC and it reboots from USB to GPS mode.
Power Button
- Like all other Nuvi models that we have used, the unit comes on automatically whenever it’s powered. Turning the 1490 on under battery power is a simple “tap” of the power button and we have found in some cases the ease of turning the unit on has caused it to be turned on while we think it’s off because we have inadvertently touched the power button.
- Like all other TomTom models we have used, the unit doesn’t ever come on automatically. Whether powered by the car adapter, USB or battery you MUST press and hold the power button for a few seconds until it starts up. This is a small, but sometimes annoying, “feature” of the TomTom.
Boot Up
- The Nuvi will always boot up to the Where To? main screen whether powered or running on battery.
- The TomTom appears to always boot up to whatever screen was being displayed when the unit was turned off. This isn’t always the best alternative, especially if you turned the unit off while deep in a multi page menu and now want the map screen. There may be a way to tell the TomTom to always boot up to the map screen but we haven’t found it so far.
Entering Addresses
- To enter an address to be routed to on the Nuvi, you enter the State/Province your destination is in, followed by the City name or search all places in the State/Province. Then you enter the house number of your destination and finally the street name.
- To enter an address to be routed to on the TomTom, you enter the state/province by scrolling through an alpha list of them and selecting the one you want. Then you enter the city you need to find the address for (doesn’t seem to be search all function). Now you enter the street name, followed by the street number.
- The first time you enter an address on the TomTom you can enter the state/province name using the keyboard but once you’ve selected one it remains as the default until you scroll through the alpha list and select a new one.
- As you enter street names on the TomTom, the unit attempts to display possible names based on the letters you have entered. This is similar, but works better than, how the Nuvi does it where once you have entered letters a list of possible selections appears.
- Entering a street number on the TomTom results in the device either calculating a route to that address or telling you that the address doesn’t exist in the map data. This is a bit different than the Nuvi which again will present a list of possible addresses if the one entered doesn’t exist. The way the TomTom handles an unknown address is a bit of a problem if you don’t know the exact address. We often enter any number we want on the Nuvi just to get an idea of where a street is located. This isn’t easily achieved with the TomTom.
Entering a Via
- With the Nuvi, to get to a destination by first going to another location, know as a viapoint, you first enter your final destination and press GO. The Nuvi will calculate a route to that location. Then you enter the address of your viapoint and press GO. The Nuvi will ask you if you want to use this as a viapoint. Answering yes will result in the Nuvi recalculating the route to take you to the viapoint and then continue to your final destination.
- With the TomTom it’s more complicated to enter a viapoint, at least we think it is. If you first enter your destination address the 540s will calculate a route to that place. Now if you enter a second address to be used as a viapoint, like on the Nuvi, the TomTom will calculate a route to that location but will wipe out your original entry.
- To enter a viapoint on the TomTom start by entering your destination address as usual. Now this is where it gets complicated. To enter the viapoint you tap the map screen and from the Main Menu select – FIND ALTERNATIVE. On the Find Alternative screen there is an icon called Travel Via... Tapping that icon allows you to enter the viapoint address and the TomTom will then calculate a route to that address and on to your final destination.
- Certainly it isn’t very intuitive to have to go to a Find Alternative screen to enter a viapoint for your calculated route.
Saving An Entry
- Once you have found a location and wish to save it, say, as a Favourite, on the Nuvi you will find that by default the first letter of the name you use will be capitalized. If the name will be multiple words the Nuvi will automatically capitalize the first letter of each word. Basically every time you enter a space the next letter will be capitalized.
- On the TomTom when entering a name only the first letter of the first word is capitalized. So if you have a multi word title to save you need to press the shift key on the keyboard screen to capitalize the first letter of each word. This is a small point but an annoyance in any event.
Well that’s about it for now. We have lots more covering traffic and GPS features that we used in our trip to Pasadena for the Rose Parade and from our trip from Palm Springs California to Phoenix Arizona. Maybe later today or tomorrow.
Please keep your questions and comments coming.
@happy-traveler
I don't believe you need to install any additional things to get red light/safety camera warnings on the 540s. If you go to Change Preferences - Manage POIs - Warn When Near POI - Scroll through the list of categories until you find Safety Cam US Other TomTom. Now set the 'warning when closer than' distance, what you want to warning to say or do, and whether you want the warning only if it's on your route. Tap Done and now you will be warned when you approach one of these cameras. Note you can do this for any of the built in POI categories.
This feature worked perfectly for the many speed cameras we passed in Arizona, and particularly around Phoenix. How this state can be multi billions of dollars in the hole with all these speed cameras is anybodies guess. Also we received Red Light camera warnings in Pasadena. |
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happy-traveler
USA
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 21:00:52
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Rick, you are worth your weight in gold as far as I'm concerned! 
I did as you instructed and now have my speed camera activated in time for my trip to Fresno. I want to thank you very much for your knowledge and guidance in helping me out with this issue. I don't know that I would have figured it out on my own in this lifetime.
You are teaching and guiding all of us in the nuances of our GPS systems and I, for one, am very grateful you are taking the time to educate and inform. I'll be here waiting for more of your invaluable updates.
Stay safe, travelin' man (and Mrs.!) Enjoy the ride and discoveries to come! |
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cleo43
Canada
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 21:47:38
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Several of your comments about TomTom are wrong due to bias and/or inexperience with TomTom.
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- The TomTom appears to always boot up to whatever screen was being displayed when the unit was turned off. This isn’t always the best alternative, especially if you turned the unit off while deep in a multi page menu and now want the map screen. There may be a way to tell the TomTom to always boot up to the map screen but we haven’t found it so far.
Menu Change Preferences/Start Up
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- To enter an address to be routed to on the TomTom, you enter the state/province by scrolling through an alpha list of them and selecting the one you want. Then you enter the city you need to find the address for (doesn’t seem to be search all function). Now you enter the street name, followed by the street number.
- The first time you enter an address on the TomTom you can enter the state/province name using the keyboard but once you’ve selected one it remains as the default until you scroll through the alpha list and select a new one.
- As you enter street names on the TomTom, the unit attempts to display possible names based on the letters you have entered. This is similar, but works better than, how the Nuvi does it where once you have entered letters a list of possible selections appears.
- Entering a street number on the TomTom results in the device either calculating a route to that address or telling you that the address doesn’t exist in the map data. This is a bit different than the Nuvi which again will present a list of possible addresses if the one entered doesn’t exist. The way the TomTom handles an unknown address is a bit of a problem if you don’t know the exact address. We often enter any number we want on the Nuvi just to get an idea of where a street is located. This isn’t easily achieved with the TomTom.
You don't have to scroll all the time, there is always an extra 'Find' button, unless the 540 is different from other TT I have seen.
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Entering a Via
- With the Nuvi, to get to a destination by first going to another location, know as a viapoint, you first enter your final destination and press GO. The Nuvi will calculate a route to that location. Then you enter the address of your viapoint and press GO. The Nuvi will ask you if you want to use this as a viapoint. Answering yes will result in the Nuvi recalculating the route to take you to the viapoint and then continue to your final destination.
- With the TomTom it’s more complicated to enter a viapoint, at least we think it is. If you first enter your destination address the 540s will calculate a route to that place. Now if you enter a second address to be used as a viapoint, like on the Nuvi, the TomTom will calculate a route to that location but will wipe out your original entry.
- To enter a viapoint on the TomTom start by entering your destination address as usual. Now this is where it gets complicated. To enter the viapoint you tap the map screen and from the Main Menu select – FIND ALTERNATIVE. On the Find Alternative screen there is an icon called Travel Via... Tapping that icon allows you to enter the viapoint address and the TomTom will then calculate a route to that address and on to your final destination.
- Certainly it isn’t very intuitive to have to go to a Find Alternative screen to enter a viapoint for your calculated route.
To use multiple Via you have to use the Itinerary menu.
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Saving An Entry
- Once you have found a location and wish to save it, say, as a Favourite, on the Nuvi you will find that by default the first letter of the name you use will be capitalized. If the name will be multiple words the Nuvi will automatically capitalize the first letter of each word. Basically every time you enter a space the next letter will be capitalized.
- On the TomTom when entering a name only the first letter of the first word is capitalized. So if you have a multi word title to save you need to press the shift key on the keyboard screen to capitalize the first letter of each word. This is a small point but an annoyance in any event.
Well that’s about it for now. We have lots more covering traffic and GPS features that we used in our trip to Pasadena for the Rose Parade and from our trip from Palm Springs California to Phoenix Arizona. Maybe later today or tomorrow.
As mentioned before you use a custom POI not Favorites to save stuff or don't save and find them latter in Recent Destinations (with 'Navigate To' not 'Browse map').
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Kex
USA
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 23:13:14
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Rick, comparing your notes on the XXL 540S and my experience with the XL 340S Live, you seem to have noticed a lot of the same points that I have, as a prior Garmin user:
Legal Warning:
Yes, this is annoying on the Garmin, but since, as you point out, it goes away without any intervention, it's a minor quibble, really. The legal warning does not always appear on the XL 340S Live either, although you seem to have figured out far more about when or why it does or does not than me!
Power Button:
You are also correct, from my experience, about the two second push required to turn the TomTom on or off. It doesn't bother me as much as it may have bothered you, however, but I still prefer the good old fashioned "click" of the solid rocker switch on my StreetPilot 2720 (which does not have the auto start feature you describe on the nüvi).
Boot Up:
Correct again. I think I prefer the Garmin method of starting up on a "Where To?" "View Map" screen, but I suppose the TomTom retained memory function of the last screen used before power was turned off could be useful in some circumstances, such as if one was in the middle of something, but had to interrupt. This would stop you from having to start over again when you next turned the device on. Otherwise, I do find it convenient that the TomTom usually starts up on "Driving View" without any user intervention, whether a route is currently being navigated or not (since the Driving View is usually where I left off, after arriving at a destination).
However, your observation aptly demonstrates the shortcoming of the TomTom menu navigation IMO, since there is no quick method to get back from several levels of menu navigation to the map screen: you have to keep pushing "Done" or "Back" until you get all the way back out of however many levels of menus you had delved through to show the map navigation screen (Driving View).
Entering addresses.
I think I prefer the TomTom method in this case, but that may be because of improvements Garmin may have made between the StreetPilot range and the nüvi range. To clarify: on the StreetPilot 2720, you have to enter as much of a part of the city name as you expect to be sufficient to identify a conveniently limited list, and then press OK before the list of possible answers is displayed. Too many options because of too few letters of the name being entered would require the user to scroll through more numerous screens to get to the right choice, eventually. Of course, there is always the option of selecting "Search All Cities", which TomTom does not offer, but then you encounter the same problem of too many possible answers to scroll through when you later enter the street name ... forcing you to enter more, perhaps, of the full street name than would otherwise be strictly necessary.
In the case of the TomTom, this aspect functions more like predictive text on a mobile phone, which I am more comfortable with. I also find the TomTom state selection method more convenient, BTW, but either way: I'd suggest that it's probably more a matter of habit than a significant advantage to either device.
Entering a Via.
Yup! The TomTom had me stumped for a short while too. It's no big deal, now that I know how to do it, but I still find the Garmin method far more intuitive for a first time user.
Saving an Entry.
Yes, the TomTom forcing the user to press the shift virtual key for capital letters is a bit of an annoyance when one is used to Garmin's convenient method of automatically adding a capital letter to the start of each word. Just like the more convenient method of finding places and saving them to favorites: it's a nice touch!
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Originally posted by cleo43
Several of your comments about TomTom are wrong due to bias and/or inexperience with TomTom.quote:
- The TomTom appears to always boot up to whatever screen was being displayed when the unit was turned off. This isn’t always the best alternative, especially if you turned the unit off while deep in a multi page menu and now want the map screen. There may be a way to tell the TomTom to always boot up to the map screen but we haven’t found it so far.
Menu Change Preferences/Start Up
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Thanks for that bit of information! I'll try that on the XL 340S Live and see if I Prefer it. Like I said earlier, this hasn't been a big deal for me, since I usually turn the unit off in Driving View, so that's also where it starts up most of the time ... but I still think it demonstrates that TomTom should find a way to get the user back to the Driving View instantly from within several levels of menus, without having to press Done and Back repeatedly.
As for the potential for "bias" you mentioned, I certainly struggle with it! It's not intentional bias, of course, as in "Garmin = Good; TomTom = Bad", but the Garmin "method" is instantly more familiar to me. |
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NanaimoRick
Canada
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Posted - 06 janv. 2010 : 23:35:44
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@cleo43
As always we are thankful for members with TomTom experience to point out thinks we haven't figured out yet ourselves but please don't ever accuse us of bias in these comparisons. If there is one thing we try very hard not to be it's having a bias toward one brand over the other. We wonder want the point of doing all this work would be if we go in with a bias toward one model over the other.
To respond to your specific comments:
I can not find a Menu Change Preferences/Start Up option on the 540S or any mention of it in the manual.
Yes you can use the 'Find' option in many situations which may well be faster than scrolling through a list. That option doesn't appear when entering an address until you tap on the state icon that appears on the "city" entry screen and then tap on the 'down arrow' beside the state icon. You can however enter the state name after tapping the state icon which sort of puts you somewhere between scrolling a list and pressing the down arrow and using 'find'.
We are aware that you can use itinerary menu for a multiple via route. What we said was, it isn't very intuitive to put a Travel via icon on the 'find alternative' screen. If we wanted a multi point route we would use the itinerary menu to create it.
As to your last point, we have no idea what using custom POIs instead of favorites has to do with the point we are making about how the Nuvi and TomTom treat capitalization when entering names for saved items.
Finally I have corrected your post to reflect 540s and deleted your extra post concerning that.
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Kex
USA
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Posted - 07 janv. 2010 : 00:27:33
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Rick, perhaps you can help me clear something up:
I'm used to the Garmin touch screen. The keyboard, while it's not perfect, works properly about 95% of the time. I'm also familiar with clicking and moving the Garmin map, while browsing. Again, although not perfect, it works.
On the other hand, I am having a lot of trouble with the touch screen function of my TomTom.
1) When using the virtual keyboard, it frequently types the wrong letter, or even makes a selection on the opposite side of the screen (when I'm typing near the extremities).
2) When attempting to browse the map, it simply refuses to let me click and drag the view just about 90% of the time. I've never got this to work in what could be described as a usable fashion.
3) When I tap the status bar (which I have positioned vertically, on the right side of the screen) about 20-30% of the time the Main Menu will appear, as if I had tapped the map area, where the route summary should be appearing instead.
I'm beginning to wonder if I have a problem with my screen. Have you noticed any difficulty with the precision of screen taps on your unit? |
TomTom XL 340S LIVE, GO LIVE 2535M, XL 340TM (RDS-TMC) in LA traffic
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NanaimoRick
Canada
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Posted - 07 janv. 2010 : 00:48:12
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I can answer your question with a single word - No.
I find the screen on our TomTom 540s to be very accurate to the touch on all screens. I use the horizontal status bar which I find easier to tap and to read while driving but again have had no problems with the screen sensitivity or accuracy. Unfortunately I don't think there is a calibration screen like there is on the Nuvi either.
I also find the map scrolling on the TomTom to be very easy to use without the 'float' problems we find when scrolling the Nuvi map. The one thing I don't care for on the TomTom is the 'zoom bar slider' on the right hand side of the TomTom's map screen. We like the Nuvi's simply + and - buttons much better than the zoom slider that TomTom uses. |
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[TOPIC] Road Testing the Nuvi 1490T & TomTom 540S
