Amusing email from TomTom

[DennisN]

[spook51]

Not in the business of recommending..... the FAQs are full of recommendations about how to get the best from your TomTom!

Edited for typing mistake.

[Andy_P]

[DennisN]

Interpretation is all a matter of interpretation, innit? This judge needed an interpreter for an accused German, so he asked if anybody in court could speak German. Paddy jumps up and says "Oi can yer 'onner". Right, says the judge, come down and ask him what is his name, so Paddy comes to the well of the court, turns to the accused and shouts "Vot iss yor name?"
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

[Trevor1234]

Hi DennisN
Very funny, I’m sure that there is a place on television for you.

As for ‘Map Share’ I think its about as much use as the ‘GPS Quickfix’. Both are ok to play with but that’s about it. The trouble is that when Tomtom do add useless extras they discard something else that is of practical value. But there again, it must be difficult to keep everyone happy.
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Tomtom Go 720.
Navcore 9.510
Central and Western Europe v855.2884
GPS World Traffic cameras
Home 2.7
iPhone 3G

[DennisN]

Sorry, Trevor, but I have to disagree with you.

Much as I criticise (and refuse to use) MapShare, I think it has tremendous potential. The only thing wrong with it is that TomTom have made a complete pig's ear of the implementation. Employ some full time verifiers.

QuickGPSfix - I dunno. A couple of weeks will mark the second anniversary of me not using it. Maybe it's useful if you leave your device in a cupboard for a few weeks/months on end, but I use mine virtually every day and apparently it downloads GPS updates every time it connects, so it's no use to me.

Other stuff...

IQ Routes. Could be so much better if only it had the capacity to get data for all the alternative routes, whereas I suspect the alternatives are mostly unrecorded, therefore indicating clear roads/speeds. It would greatly benefit if TT were to reintroduce more road categories.

Voice recognition. Could be terrific if they cared to take my advice. I suggested (here, not to TT) they should have one main voice command, namely "TomTom Menu". Then keep only the existing City and Street voice recognition words. After that, have a tiny amount of recognition training (display a few city and street names for you to pronounce and it to learn to recognise your accent - how many years ago did wordprocessors use that method to learn to understand you?) and have ALL commands numbered (just as in the city/street recognition listings). Drop these however many phrases for us to learn and TT to recognise.

Bluetooth handsfree phone. When it works, this is glorious. Trouble is the compatibility "issues" mean I'm the only person in the world with an old enough phone and an old enough TT device to make and receive phone calls and texts successfully.

Customer Support. Offer large sums of money to the likes of Mikealder, AndyVaughan, Andy_P and several others on this website to take over the support.

Those are my main ones. TomTom devices are already (in my opinion) much better than the opposition, but they could be so good the opposition would be wiped off the face of the earth, if only TT would get a grip of the "issues" and "challenges".
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Dennis

If it tastes good - it's fattening.

Two of them are obesiting!!

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