Why don't TomTom Rider units operate live services via a sim card like the car based items?

Mike Miles

Have been tempted to update my Rider V4 by the latest offer, but am still disapointed to see the Rider units need a smartphone link for live services! What's the problem in having them operate on a sim card like the car and truck based units?

YamFazMan

Hi
@Mike Miles

Who knows... Maybe the size of the Motorcycle Market is too small and would not support the price rise required to develop, support and sell a SIM based Rider 5xx ???

ATB YFM

John-Jay

Hi, @Mike Miles,

Having owned a SIM Based TomTom, I really would NOT recommend them! Always losing Connection &, for most journeys, spent most of the Journey searching for the connection!

miketorcy

It is a good question. I have a GO6200 with a SIM card included and it work well. It is very confortable not to have to connect it with a smartphone even if it is simple to connect it with my redmi nopte 7.
It is a good advantage versus Garmin which do not give this possibility.

YamFazMan

Hi
I have Several Live (SIM) Tomtom models and would recommend them
Its very rare I have a problem with connectivity....

ATB YFM

Mike Miles

A few interesting comments, but it would be interesting to hear from TomTom BV...
Development cost would be very small - just building the car unit into the Rider casing and adding bike specific functionality to the chip - just a re-flash surely? That would also score on economies of scale, same internals with just different funtionality activated for different markets - or is that already the case with the additional (misguided) cost-saving of the sim card omission?
I'm really not minded to upgrade to the latest Rider without fully stand alone live services...