Should I upgrade from TT3 to TT5???

floody · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 75

Sorry to trouble you guys (& gals)
I am currently running TT3 on a O2 XDAII with a BT-338, 1gig Sandisk card. Checkpoint 3.2
I've read mixed reviews about the upgrade ,some saying they re-installed TT3 & others saying it works perfectly.
I live in Birmingham so currently my maps don't support the Toll roads (not a big issue but might be in the future)

Are the new features worth it or I am better off with TT3.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Talkingbollox · Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2005 12:49 pm Post subject:

I delayed the upgrade until the release of version 5.10 last week.

I don't have any regrets at all, even though TT5 doesn't show the number of satellites locked due to my Road Angel not outputting the appropriate NMEA sentences. Also, I haven't used it with my bluetooth receiver yet.

cairngorm · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jan 19, 2005 Posts: 15

If just staying in Britain and have access to the full postol code look up tool, then I would say it was not imperative. I upgraded and I prefer it ,even though I still have to master the new setup. Cairngorm

floody · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 75

cheers, has anyone else any thoughts??

xda · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:06 pm Post subject:

I'm staying with V3 for the time being. Certain features I use have been removed in V5 and the inbuilt POI warnings don't come any where near to what GPSAssist can do.
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northants_guy · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject:

I upgraded to 5 shortly before a recent holiday to Devon. Whilst in Devon i reverted back to 3 as I could not get used to the display in 5.

Also, I had the chance to run both systems side by side and the routing of 3 is MUCH better than 5.

I put the same route into both, Northampton to Devon and 3 took me along the A43 to oxford and down, where as 5 wanted me to go up to Birmingham and down.

Also, knowing that it was best to go via oxford I followed the A43 diversions and for nearly an hour TT5 wanted me to turn around and go back. It then took me ages to figure out how to get it to re-plan the route.

might try 5 again, with the new patch that has been released.

Bazzer · Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject:

Hi Northants Guy,

Not knowing your precise start and finish locations, I've just run a route from Northamton to Toquay, using TT5, and it does route by the motorways south of Birmingham.

This comes out at 230 miles in 3 hrs 52 mins

Putting in a 'via' point on A43 routes it at 217 miles (shorter) but in 5 hrs 11 mins.

So the preferred routing via the motorway (fastest) is down to the pre-determined road speeds. What the A43 is like compared to M1, M6, M42 & M5 I don't know.

Since road speeds cannot be adjusted in TT5, it would be interesting to know what they actually are. Anyone Know ??

Baz
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