REVIEW COMMENTS: TomTom Navigator 5 Palm & Pocket PC

SimonCatlin · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject:

Tomtom GPS - BT old Sirf II, New Sirf III - Take th enew one.. They are incredible. Mine (not TomTom) works in the arm rest in a car with no sun roof!
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Jigsaw · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 11:59 pm Post subject:

Lorax · Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 9:31 am Post subject:

Waiting for the new receivers seems like a good idea.

I cant seem to find the Globalsat 338 for sale here in the UK. Anyone know of anywhere that sells it?

It looks like waiting a few more weeks (or months!!!) might be the way to go for both gps receiver and nav v.5 software.

It seems that quite a few of us have got the GPS bug just when a big change is happening.

Lorax

mbailey3 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 28, 2005 Posts: 30

Any idea on the price for the "tomtom 5 navigator bluetooth"?

I see Tomtom Navigator 3 Bluetooth is £160 on Amazon. Is V5 expected to be about the same?

Just seen that the Dell Axim X50v is reduced to £271 on the dell web site. :D

I am trying to price up what the total system is going to cost me!

MikeB · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:06 pm Post subject:

Lorax · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

Thanks mike.

I've checked then out. They say 'pre order now' which suggests they dont have any Globalsat 338's and they are also £21 more expensive than this place http://www.gpsforless.co.uk/product_details.php?id=1031 who do seem to have the GPS in stock.

Lorax

Lorax · Posted: Thu Apr 28, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject:

Sorry to drag this on and on but i think the 'buy now or wait' problem is becoming clearer.

I've just checked out a site that is advertising pre-orders on a tomtom nav 5 + ipaq hx4700 bundle (the pda i intend to get). They also sell the bundle with tomtom nav 3.

The v.5 bundle is £30 more expensive and they say they should have them in stock end of May.

So, it makes sense to get v.3 now and then pay the £30 approx (50 euros) upgrade when v.5 eventually comes out. Especially if they are throwing in the Europe maps as part of the upgrade (am I right in thinking that?).

You wont be losing money by buying now & paying the upgrade as v.5 seem to be more expensive. You get the use of the system now and not in 4-6 week, plus you get the extra Europe maps (if I got that right), and you have v.3 to go back to should v.5 be buggy.

Lorax

pt68 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 25, 2005 Posts: 13

Sorry I am really confused. I have USA maps with Navigator for Palm, (purchased a month ago when in USA) I now need European Maps. I presume I won't get European Maps with an upgrade, so should I buy them now or wait for Navigator 5.

Thanks

DataMan · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject:

So what about us? in united state with Tomtom Nav 2004 USA and Canada?

we recently paid like 53$ to upgrade from TT2 to TT4 it was a better engine but a lot of the options are taken away in TT4 kindaa anoying... I can not wait to upgrade my TT4...

Do you have any info on US version of it Dave?

Thank you for your usefull website!

MikeB · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 6:02 pm Post subject:

TomTom are currently working on the Version 5 upgrade for the US and Canada. We dont have any details yet regarding release dates.

Obviously the application will be the Version 5 that we have reviewed already. There should also be more recent maps as well.
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DataMan · Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

No, the upgrade will cost (pressuming) 79 Euros (About 50 Pounds) just like TomTom Mobile 5.
This is very resonable as you will be getting an SD Card with the new software and most up-to-date maps.

JUST WISH TOMTOM WOULD GET THEIR SKATES ON AND RELEASE THE UPGRADE!!!!!

Mike B, do you know any more about the actual upgrade, and what is it like using TomTom Mobile 5 that you got from CEBit?! Are the maps noticable better and more up-to-date!?

Cheers, Keep up the good work everyone.
LydiaChris

Ps. Who is the pocketgps moderator who owns an XDAIIi!?
I ahve been searching through
http://forum.xda-developers.com/front_page.php
and I have seen and read about third party ROM updates which have higher versions of RADIO Version, CE Version and EXT.ROM Version, I was wondering if either someone can post a link to another thread in this forum or an email address so I can get some advise about what version ROM updates people have on their XDAIIi.
As you can see from my signature, I have o2's Launch ROM Version for my XDAIIi.

CHEERS!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

lydiachris · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 193

sorry to double post, but the website I gave a link to:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/front_page.php

is a very tempermental website, sometimes it works, other times it does't so just be paticent. I have read and learnt a lot from it, so XDA users might be appreciatetive.

Cheers,
Chris

hogbreath · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 5:08 pm Post subject:

Great review thanks.

Have been using the walk option on tt3 around london, it's great until it does a re-calc, then reverts back to quickest - perhaps the walk option is just meant to be used via the map view only?

I find it really useful to see the number of sats i'm receiving when walking - this appears to have been replaced with bars on tt5, also the day/night colours now have migrated onto two icons - one icon seems a better option.

Pete Confused

Trevor1234 · Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject:

Yes, a good review. However, does Navigator 5 have an updated map compared with Navigator 3? That would be handy.

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