Why don't TomTom Rider units operate live services via a sim card like the car based items?
Mike Miles
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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?
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@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
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!
Superusers
It is a good advantage versus Garmin which do not give this possibility.
Superusers
I have Several Live (SIM) Tomtom models and would recommend them
Its very rare I have a problem with connectivity....
ATB YFM
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...