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- Average user rating: 2.0 stars out of 14 reviews Back to product review
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
4.0 stars
"Easy To Use - Accurate, Bluetooth Equipped"
Pros: Bluetooth Headset, Pre-loaded Maps on a 1GB SD memory card, Everything included, Nothing extra needed to start using it. Performs dead rekoning.
Cons: Screen is NOT Transreflective and washes out in bright sunshine. No external power indicator. No Altitude display.
Summary: I have been shopping for a GPS for use on my motorcycle for a long time. My requirements were for a unit that was portable, water resistant, vibration resistant, and easy to view in direct sunlight. Well three out of four isn't bad.
The TomTom Rider is very easy to use and installs on your motorcycle using the included "RAM like" mounting hardware.
Route planning is quick. Maps are pretty good and fairly recent. TomTom provides a feedback site for map errors and or complaints.
Since the unit comes with Bluetooth, you don't really need to see the screen. Just follow the audio cues.
Maps for the US and Canada included to street level along with numerous Points of Interest.
Route planning covers Fastest, Shortest, Avoid Freeways-(Highways), Walking, Bicycle, and Limited speed. It also includes options for Toll road/bridge avoidance.
I wish the unit had a History function along with Altitude readouts.
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Some time ago, I received an email from TomTom telling me in huge letters that the new Navigator 6 was released, and I should update my system -- which happens to be a Palm Zire 72. On about the third screen down, hidden over on the right side as I recall, there was a tiny little button saying click here for incompatible hardware. Yes, the Palm Zire 72 was there; but so, too, were much larger fonts urging me to buy. I missed the reference to incompataibilty, and ordered the new software. When it came, it wouldn't load, so I called a technician at TomTom and he told me to hang on for a bit, a new version for Palm would soon be released. Well, it never was, and after six months or so of continual correspondence and telephone calls to technicians and customer service representatives -- all of whom told me that a version for Palm was just around the corner! -- I got a notice saying that Navigator 6 wasn't compatible. Question: why did it take about six months, why was I deliberately mislead for six months? So I asked for my money back, and those hard-nosed people have refused because the software was open. Well, of course it was open, how did I find out in the first instance that i couldn't load it? So now, I say to anyone who will listen, DON'T DEAL WITH TomTom! They prevaricate, they mislead, they are so cheap they won't even refund $70 or so. Would you buy anything from people like that? No, I didn't think so. I suggest that nobody should deal with TomTom. Let them stew in their own juice. Maybe, if enough people see this and go along with me, we might even bankrupt them. Let's try.
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A good report and i agree for the most except i found the Mount has been designed very poorly and is a well know fact that the unit will fail over time on the mount. The tomtom help service is also poor and very user unfrendly, especially the bloke called Dermot on the UK help line as was the Dutch head office, i would consider looking at another make. buy it at your cost, If you want any more info then you can reach me at james7347@hotmail.com
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