tomtom one?
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- OBBTKN
Hi peeps.
Need a navigator for my caravaning trip around eu, and i´m thinking on buying one.
Pros? Cons? Alternatives?
I can get one for 200€...
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- blaw0
Nice comparison chart here:
https://buy.garmin.com/shop/comp…If you shop around you can find these a much better prices.
I know a lot of folks that swear by the zumo 550.
- meisterschueler0
i use the tomtom one, and i am very satisfied.
i think its a god choice for that price.
you can download additional maps as torrent.
- wunderbra0
Nice comparison chart here:
buy.garmin.com/shop/co...blaw
(Nov 17 07, 02:24)// yeah, pretty neautral as well!
- wunderbra0
neutral
- tkmeister0
i would probably buy garmin given that they get map data from navteq which got acquired by nokia. tomtom gets their map from tele atlas, a 2nd rated map supplier.
also garmin produces aviation gps which usually means that their gps tech needs to be extremely precise.
- wunderbra0
tele atlas just got bought by tomtom, outbidding garmin, so i don't think it's really that bad!
(and tomtom is dutch and so is tele atlas i believe, so it can't be THAT shabby, or is it? maybe it is.. who knows.. we can suck as well.. i mean, not like in sucking.. but you know fail with things.. even though we win a lot too, just like soccer, today we will win from luxembourg, oh pity them..haha we can actually still lose though.. i am talking gibberish again.. typically dutch as well.. talking for hours about nothing.. but i will stop here now.. believe me, i will. so, here i go. i quit this conversation..)
- Witt0
someone i hear "tomtom" and the image of Pipi Langström appears in my head.
- Witt0
someone=somehow
jesus...
carry on. sorry...
- tkmeister0
yes,tele atlas was bought out by tomtom. but i think garmin had no intention of actually buying that company going into the bidding war. it was simply one way to make tomtom over pay for it.
garmin is a lot bigger, x4 in terms of market capitalization. so if they were serious about it, they could have easily outbid tomtom.
it will be interesting to see how these companies do in future but tomtom just blew way more than they should.
- wunderbra0
weird, i read last week that garmin was "not able" to outbid..hmmm..
- tkmeister0
garmin withdrew then announced that they extended 6yrs contract with navteq ,which is a lot better business for them. let's be real, i think garmin can start a hostile takeover on tomtom if they wanted, based on market capitalization.
so it was more like, garmin didn't outbid because buying teleatlas was a bad idea for garmin to begin with, and it was just a tactic to get a quick change(garmin own 5% share of teleatlas) and tomtom overpaying over 1 billion which will hurt their market cap for a while.
- waynepixel0
I have a first generation TT One. Great little machine, and get the job done 99% of the time.