Hi everyone -
I jumped in on the regular TomTom forum without properly introducing myself, for which I humbly apologize.
I'm the proud new owner of a TomTom One 125, purchased via eBay. I am renting a car for a week this month and when they told me the GPS option would cost $99 I scoffed and thought, "I can BUY a GPS for that!" Having heard great things about TomToms, it was the first thing I checked out. I bought my TomTom used for $75, and updated the maps, with a quarterly map update yesterday.
So I've already gone ahead and spent more than that GPS rental option, but it's worth it to have a mobile GPS. Now that I have one, I'm going to have to figure out how to mount this sucker to my bike!
I also have a Toyota Prius with a built in nav system that hasn't been updated in 4 years. She thinks I'm driving over fields when I go to my house. The cost to update car navigation systems is insane, and I probably won't buy another car with a navigation system because of that alone. (Plus I have my shiny new TomTom!)
I'm a big fan of maps. Pre-navigation system, I would take the map with us on road trips and look for rivers or other markers so I could see just where we were. I like knowing my exact place in the world, as my husband says. When we went to buy the Prius I asked about the nav system. They didn't have one in stock so the salesman was trying to sell me one without a nav system.
My husband interrupted him gently and said, "No offense, but you don't know my wife. She can't live without her maps."
So now I have my maps with me all the time. Yay. Getting used to the interface after the Toyota navigation system's a little tough though. Kind of mind-bending. It's a wholly different approach with the TomTom. I think I'm up to the challenge though. Wish me luck!
I jumped in on the regular TomTom forum without properly introducing myself, for which I humbly apologize.
I'm the proud new owner of a TomTom One 125, purchased via eBay. I am renting a car for a week this month and when they told me the GPS option would cost $99 I scoffed and thought, "I can BUY a GPS for that!" Having heard great things about TomToms, it was the first thing I checked out. I bought my TomTom used for $75, and updated the maps, with a quarterly map update yesterday.
So I've already gone ahead and spent more than that GPS rental option, but it's worth it to have a mobile GPS. Now that I have one, I'm going to have to figure out how to mount this sucker to my bike!
I also have a Toyota Prius with a built in nav system that hasn't been updated in 4 years. She thinks I'm driving over fields when I go to my house. The cost to update car navigation systems is insane, and I probably won't buy another car with a navigation system because of that alone. (Plus I have my shiny new TomTom!)
I'm a big fan of maps. Pre-navigation system, I would take the map with us on road trips and look for rivers or other markers so I could see just where we were. I like knowing my exact place in the world, as my husband says. When we went to buy the Prius I asked about the nav system. They didn't have one in stock so the salesman was trying to sell me one without a nav system.
My husband interrupted him gently and said, "No offense, but you don't know my wife. She can't live without her maps."
So now I have my maps with me all the time. Yay.
Getting used to the interface after the Toyota navigation system's a little tough though. Kind of mind-bending. It's a wholly different approach with the TomTom. I think I'm up to the challenge though. Wish me luck!
