TomTom announce the TomTom One XL

dizzyfergy · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:45 pm Post subject:

Whey hey , not only a sat nav forum but a free biology lesson too!!!!. Laughing

Andy_P · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

There's more.... Rolling Eyes

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Border_Collie · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject:

For ease of use I always folded my paper maps so only one page would appear, i.e. vertically. For me the Sat Nav is an electronic 'paper' map. I've tried both landscape and vertical and prefer vertical.

Regardless of how many eyes and field of view etc, I'm almost always looking straight ahead when driving, my peripheral vison takes care of most other things. I've tried both 2D and 3D and find 3D gives a more realistic view of what's coming up.

It is all to do with personal preference, maybe the answer would be for all units to have rotating screens and a choice of 2D or 3D. Then everyone could be happy and choose the device they prefer.
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NickG · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 5:48 pm Post subject:

I think that while this is important for cinema screens and large televisions, it's totally irrelevant for sat nav devices as the screen size is so tiny. You will never place the device within 4 inches of your face to use it which is what you'd have to do for the field of view to become relevant! A satnav screen will NEVER EVER even vaguely approach your field of view - and therefore the shape of it doesn't matter.

Contrary to what Darren says, everything I've been taught or have read shows that humans prefer to read information in portrait format. This is why pretty much all books, newspapers, magazines are portrait format. Additionally, even portrait format is too wide for us to cope with for things like data tables and text and the information is commonly split in to narrow and tall columns to make it easier for us to read. I cannot think of any newspaper or magazine that has it's pages in landscape format.

To be honest, I don't really see how somebody can even try to argue that it's more useful to see 3 times further to the sides than it is in front when you're travelling forwards! I probably spend 99.9% of time looking in the direction I'm travelling in when I'm driving (except when checking mirrors) and I think the same is probably true for what you'd want to see on a satnav map. I have very little interest in what's out of my side windows as by the time it's there - it's usually too late! Why would you want to see a POI thats several miles off to one side when there's probably one just up ahead? With a portrait map, you'd have much more time to see road junction layouts, roundabouts and POIs.

Border_Collie · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:31 pm Post subject:

I can't disagree with anything you said NickG.

However, I can see the reasoning behind some people wanting to see to the left and right on a landsacape screen. Lorry and coach drivers with high vehicles would find it an advantage if they came across a diversion, and could see if there were any low bridges on that route and take the necessary avoiding action.
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NickG · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 6:43 pm Post subject:

As a software developer myself, I'm sure that adding the option to display the data down the side instead of across the bottom (as in the screen shot I posted previously) would be a very quick and easy fix that would please everyone! That way, the map view would be pretty much square instead of about 3 times wider than it is tall. I'm going to ask TomTom to implement it and I hope others reading this can find a couple of minutes to their site and request this feature too.

Darren · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 7:03 pm Post subject:

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Any sign of of a headphone socket on this? Seeing as most competitors have it and they have a bit more space to play with it would be a welcome addition.

Darren · Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:37 pm Post subject:

Stanley_Tweedle · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 10, 2005 Posts: 207

Thanks for looking Darren. Seems TT have declared all out war on headphone sockets. I can see the vast majority wouldn't use it so it's fair enough.

eddieo · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 29, 2006 Posts: 217

What about battery life for roaming hand held applications?

when will it be available?

Looking at the Acer P630 as well what do you chaps think?

Border_Collie · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:15 am Post subject:

amjidkhan · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 03, 2006 Posts: 28

How is this model better than the One V2?, apart from the obvious widescreen.

Tim Buxton · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject:

mikealder · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:31 pm Post subject:

Wide screen is one thing, bear in mind the screen is much larger, this offers larger speed and ETA displays (= easier to read). I don't want to re-ignite the portrait vs landscape issue, for myself I used to run PDA's in portrait but since using the 910 I now use the PDA in landscape in the car, personal prefference having tried both modes.

RDS TMC, as Tim points out is a post code lottery in the UK, but a welcome addition negating the need for costly GPRS and subscription for the Plus service.

Flash memory also removes the potential to loose the memory card, even though a slot is still provided for other overseas maps where required. This also means the long running issue of memory card speed is removed when using the on board flash store - Mike

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