Got a XXL-550 for Xmas but I'm sad to say I'm taking it back.
I'm coming from an old Nuvi 200 and really could use a new unit but these issues with the tomtom drive me nuts
1. Unit does not turn on/off automatically when power cord is plugged in/pulled out.
2. POI Addresses are not shown. The closest intersection is shown in the preview map before the driving display pops up but the house number of the POI is never shown. This make it difficult to relay my destination to friends. My Garmin displays a restaurant's full addresses so I could easily tell my friends where to meet. Now I have to call the restaurant and get the exact street address so my friends can get their.
3. POI search is way better on Garmin. On the tomtom grocery/food stores are lumped under the general "shopping" category. If you don't know the name of the local food store chain you are in trouble.
4. Can?t enter longitude and latitude coordinates as a destination?WTF even my 5 year old Nuvi can do that. Going to have to use the old Garmin when navigating camp grounds that are not on the map.
5. - Can not load your own routes/itineraries. There are all kinds of apps and tools out their to load your own routes into older tomtom units .... so I was super disappointed that the XXL doesn?t do routes/itineraries planning. After searching the tomtom web site for 45 minutes in order to see which newer models support this feature I gave up. No idea which ones can do it.
I'm coming from an old Nuvi 200 and really could use a new unit but these issues with the tomtom drive me nuts
1. Unit does not turn on/off automatically when power cord is plugged in/pulled out.
2. POI Addresses are not shown. The closest intersection is shown in the preview map before the driving display pops up but the house number of the POI is never shown. This make it difficult to relay my destination to friends. My Garmin displays a restaurant's full addresses so I could easily tell my friends where to meet. Now I have to call the restaurant and get the exact street address so my friends can get their.
3. POI search is way better on Garmin. On the tomtom grocery/food stores are lumped under the general "shopping" category. If you don't know the name of the local food store chain you are in trouble.
4. Can?t enter longitude and latitude coordinates as a destination?WTF even my 5 year old Nuvi can do that. Going to have to use the old Garmin when navigating camp grounds that are not on the map.
5. - Can not load your own routes/itineraries. There are all kinds of apps and tools out their to load your own routes into older tomtom units .... so I was super disappointed that the XXL doesn?t do routes/itineraries planning. After searching the tomtom web site for 45 minutes in order to see which newer models support this feature I gave up. No idea which ones can do it.