I've not used TomTom on the phone but used to have a TomTom One. So far I'd say its as good as that. When I switch on CoPilot in the car I get a GPS lock almost instantly. Have a look at the review here.
Just bought a TyTN II (o2 stellar)
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I've not used TomTom on the phone but used to have a TomTom One. So far I'd say its as good as that. When I switch on CoPilot in the car I get a GPS lock almost instantly. Have a look at the review here.
Admitidly it was a slight exaggeration, but it's anything but smooth. My original TyTN however was. It's still usable to can screw you up on roundabouts if you loose count on which exit to take.Thats not bad? I just compared the TomTom on the Tytn against a TomTom One (the slim one).
Its on par, and if anything in some instances it updates faster than the TomTom One.
Surely its not that jerky Gentwee?
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I've been following that since it first started, somehow just I don't think they're gonna get anywhere unfortunately.
Hmm I didnt realise such an issue existed.
But the Stellar is not list as among those phones?
Or is it classed as a TyTn?
I had a look at this...
And that is quite a difference!
I compared my TomTom against the video, its certainly faster than the TyTn on display in the vid.
But then the TyTn on display in the vid is different to my Stellar
Hmm, yea I saw that review and as I say.. looks real lush!
Can I ask how much it set you back?
And more importantly, how big is the program on your uSD?
The Stellar is a brander TyTn II
Yea I thought that too see.
But on that site it says the TyTn II is plagued with this "driver issue"
HTC TyTN II (MSM7200), also known as:
HTC Kaiser
T-Mobile MDA Vario III
AT&T Tilt
Vodafone v1615
Gentwee - Could you run a demo at 100% speed against the video above and compare the frame rate and let us know?
To be frank, so far I can find anything wrong with the phone in terms of frame rate! I mean ok its sluggish at times when load applications, but thats to be expected no?
Actually one other thing was when I scroll around on a pdf, it does "lag" a little, but nothing crazy.
Mine actually runs slower than that video. I wasn't exaggerating but that much earlier after all 
Btw if you haven't found out how to have tomtom running landscape without opening your keyboard have a look in your system settings of the phone. You can set it to landscape there and tomtom will follow.
Btw if you haven't found out how to have tomtom running landscape without opening your keyboard have a look in your system settings of the phone. You can set it to landscape there and tomtom will follow.
Mine actually runs slower than that video. I wasn't exaggerating but that much earlier after all
Btw if you haven't found out how to have tomtom running landscape without opening your keyboard have a look in your system settings of the phone. You can set it to landscape there and tomtom will follow.
Wow Gentwee Im very suprised! You positive? It runs slower than the TyTN (right hand phone)? If so then that is indeed pig ugly slow!
Yea I saw the option in system settings to run the phone in landscape, but I was kinda hoping for an inbuilt option in the program itself, or at least some kind of shortcut button to switch between the two (instead of having to delve in and out of the system settings).
Btw which mobile operator TyTn do you have?
I paid around £83. Once I'd removed all the extra voices and languages I think its takes up less than 300 MB.
How you finding your TyTn? Is it sluggish as per the previous comments?
I have noticed it is slow redrawing screens. Having said that using CoPilot I've had no problems so I think the degree of problem varies between handsets.
Mines a T-Mobile Vario 2. I haven't optimised mine so it probably can get a little bit faster but it'll never run at full speed.
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I have a T-Mobile MDA III running Tomtom 6 and its faster than my old mans Tomtom XL.
Any diference will be due to the firmware running on the phone and the speed of your sd card. The driver issue affects all tytnIIs, touchs and any other htc devices running the qualcomm chip.
I got my tytnII on orange, it was simlocked and came with the orange firmware version. For some reason orange removed quite a few of the WM6 features I was used to from my Tytn (such as messenger) however it only takes a few minutes to reflash to the OEM firmware and sim unlock the phone.
Ive noticed many people reflashing their TyTn roms etc and what not.
Would this cause any performance increase at all or is it simply GUI/Aethetics that it affects?
Also about this driver issue, do you think we will see a "driver"?
I don't think we'll see a driver. HTC have said themselves they're not doing anything about it and you'll have to buy their next series product for better support. With regards to the ROMs you can quite simply modify your own to have whatever WM6 components you want, similar to installing an nlite'd xp. cutting out some of the bloat you don't need may well have a good affect on performance, I just went for the OEM ROM though so I got all the goodies 
If the Stellar has the HTC home screen as per the Vario III, just rotate the screen before launching Tomtom as this works perfectly.