hi potter ,read some of my posts,you will realise i dont work for tomtom.if i did i would be sacked by now.you dont seem to be having much luck,it seems the new units fall into two catagories,, 1 - fantastic ,cant live without it 2 what a piece of cr a p. there doesnt seem to be a middle of the road.i think its that friday/monday manufacture quote,built on friday are rubbish cos they want to get home quick ,mondays are great cos there concentrating ,the two 1000s i had were great when working,very accurate but the faults on mine were related to the bluetooth side of it.the garmin i used was a absolute nightmare now by coincedence both units were both companys new units.so it looks like both of them are rushing items out.i hear good things about the garmins but not yet regarding the latest,2320/40/90 although the 1695 gets good reviews.
as i said ive now gone for a older tomtom and its working great maybe thats the way to go with the garmins and go for the same model as your friends.just be carefull if going for a new one like tomtoms new ones there not without there faults.as for the promotion to advisor ,i know it makes me laugh aswell ,i got promoted to trusted contributor after a rant at them
re your queries ,if i input mcdonalds into my 550 i only get mcdonalds listings ,maybe the search paramiters have changed on the new ones ,on my garmin i used to get "no entry found" for places like b&q ?
the drive safely message was probably showing because you had "show tips "selected under safety preferences i think its on by default
personaly i think the menu system is good when you tap the navigate to you should of seen the poi icon,there is a main menu as soon as you tap the screen your presented with it showing navigate to,view map,settings,services,plan route and help
the post code you gave(i think a mod will remove this) on my unit it was at the end of a road but still on the map
also bear in mind tomtom and garmin can only be as good as the post code providers for accuracy and like you said it showed leysdown
ive just been on the royal mail post code location site and they come up with exactly the same location as my tomtom
the address shows as shellness rd leysdown on sea, shellness.the map for royal mail is the same as my unit
heres a link for the royal mail site for you to check accuracy
http://www2.royalmail.com/postcode-finder
as for favourites what a joke its all or nothing on deletion
sometimes wish tomtom would buy garmin or the other way around we would probably get the units we all want then as they both have good and bad points
good luck with what you decide
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1st go live 1000 (dead)
second go live 1000 (dead)
current go live 550 alive and doing what the 1xxx/2xxx/ vias should be doing
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