Anyone using Tomtom on their phone.

wassap · 21 May 2006 at 12:28

Feel free to call me an idiot. I was stopping at a hotel a few nights back, foolishly i left my Pda holder mount to the windscreen, i removed the pda mount and pda and dropped it into the boot.

Lo and behold morning arrives and i have no front passengers window, and my car has been thoroughly violated, all me stuff has gone out the boot (inc my logitech dinovo keyboard set and 200 blank cd's).

Unfortunately my company car insurance doesnt cover me for any personal effects, tahnkfully my laptop was with me in the hotel.

So my plan is to get a Tomtom mobile instead, that way i wont have any tell tale mounts etc to worry about, so basically im wondering if anyone uses tomtom mobile, how does it compare to the pda version, im planning to get either the Nokia n70 or 80 to use it on.

Any opinions welcomed!

Bigsy · 21 May 2006 at 12:31

I have both, and tomtom mobile is every bit as good, does everything the normal one does.

Don;t go for the N70 as it's bluetooth support is **** and causes no end of problems, dunno what the n80 is like but it HAS to be better than the n70.

POB · 21 May 2006 at 12:37

My C500 Smartphone has TomTom and it works fine.

But I'm looking to get a PDA soon as it needs a touch screen really, its a pain entering details with a mobile.

MrMatteh · 21 May 2006 at 12:45

I do, but then i have an XDA 2i

wassap · 21 May 2006 at 13:00

Im looking for a phone really, i have gone back to a paper based organiser.

So what phones would be good, i see the sony p910`s are reasonably priced now, looking for something reasonably compact ala my w800i.

Scrutinize · 21 May 2006 at 13:17

your house insuranced may cover you if your car one doesn't, worth a check

Kitchster_uk · 21 May 2006 at 13:19

I'm using it on a Nokia 6680 and its great

quackers · 21 May 2006 at 13:50

im also looking into this at the moment, how much did you guys pay for the bluetooth gps aerials?

benneh · 21 May 2006 at 13:50

6600 here with tomtom, i've tried every variant of tomtom now and i would say the worst was the PDA, i find that even the 6600 can deal with tomtom just fine, and bluetooth links etc are no problem. Never drops satellites and seems to get me where i need to be rather nicely.

Plus you can chuck it in your pocket and the bluetooth GPS recievers are tiny now, also a phone holder that clips onto the heater grill pops off in a second.

4TW tbh, less bulky than tomtom units, more reliable than the PDA version.

Chronos-X · 21 May 2006 at 13:50

How does using it on a mobile absolve you of needing something to mount it on, what are you gonna do, have it in your pocket?

benneh · 21 May 2006 at 13:51

quackers said:
im also looking into this at the moment, how much did you guys pay for the bluetooth gps aerials?

£45 from a egay, software was free, phone was about £65, pretty cheap all in all

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The_Dark_Side · 21 May 2006 at 13:59

nokia 6680+tomtom.
works just fine and dandy.

F355 · 21 May 2006 at 14:43

XDA IIs + TomTom and it works great and so flexable too. You can take it away with you and use it as a phone and/or PDA. TomTom is no less functional than a proper TT1 or the likes.

They also aren't as big as you expect, but if you are worried about size the XDA Compact is smaller

If your current mobile has a very small screen I would think twice. Although you don't need a massive screen to use TT it probably makes it quite frustrating.

k3v · 21 May 2006 at 14:47

you could get an orange spv or an o2 xda, they do reasonably small ones, no worse than the se p910. then you could use full tomtom. I had a p910, they are a bit long in the tooth now.

Lashout_UK · 21 May 2006 at 15:06

Software works great on SPV C500. Unfortunately, I seem unable to sync it with my BT GPS module. Oh well!

AndyC · 21 May 2006 at 15:09

I have a 6630 with tomtom and it works great, only downside is eats the battery but lasts long enough to get where ever, or use the cit charger (I hate wires)

And of course speaker is a bit weak.

All in all prefer it to my old Go300.

wez130 · 21 May 2006 at 15:43

Kitchster_uk said:
I'm using it on a Nokia 6680 and its great

same here, no problems with it on the 6680

quackers · 21 May 2006 at 16:03

now this is going to sound really soft, ive just borrowed my mates tom tom to navigate me to the Men arena in manchester later on tonight.

Now it doesnt seem to want to let me enter any postcodes, im a touch confused. Any ideas?

Tips please

DannyDan · 21 May 2006 at 16:06

quackers said:
now this is going to sound really soft, ive just borrowed my mates tom tom to navigate me to the Men arena in manchester later on tonight.

Now it doesnt seem to want to let me enter any postcodes, im a touch confused. Any ideas?

Tips please

What does it say when you try to enter a postcode?

Have you tried restarting the device? Sometimes mine does odd things like forgetting that anywhere except my house exists; restarting normally sorts it out.

quackers · 21 May 2006 at 16:08

its ok when i put the m3 part in, it picks up manchester but then doesnt find the rest of the postcode.

Edit: Forget it, i am officially stupid. Ive got it now...doh!