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It has been almost a month since my wife bought me this TomTom ONE New Edition GPS Navigation System and I only have good things to say about this.

The ONE has come in to existence because of the high demand recently for portable navigation systems. And all major manufacturers jumped on the idea and created their own versions of the cheaper and simpler and portable navigation systems. TomTom ONE is the “ONE” I liked (after reading many reviews and comparing features) the most. It is our anniversary this month and we just happened to be at Fry’s electronics and I reminded my wife how much I want one of these and somehow convinced her to give that to me as my anniversary present. I know that sound to good to be true, but it is – and there is all a catch. Yup you guess it; I have to get her something of the same price for our anniversary too. So let’s see if this TomTom ONE was worth the 400 dollars my wife spent on it. Oh yeah, we cannot forget Uncle Sam… he needs his share too (add 8.25% tax).


FIRST IMPRESSION :
Wells, knowing me, I opened this baby up as soon as I got to my car from the store. So without any further delay, I took it out, inserted the supplied SD (secure digital) card, plugged in the car charger and wham… it was up and running. The initial power up will ask you a few questions to setup the unit to your preferences. So it was up and running… now what? Ah, I want it to take me somewhere. So what better destination then to test it than with you home address. That is exactly what I did. I touched on the screen and chose Navigate to… then picked Home. Since it was the first time it wanted to set the Home address. Within seconds it calculated the route and starting giving me voice directions. I was impressed… it actually works right out of the box. Plus I was able to plot my very first route without any help from the manual or quick start guide.

I later did some reading and found out that I can choose different voices, map colors, also add live traffic information and more. I took out the SD card and put it in my computer and turns out it only had 15MB of space left (it was a GB card). So I upgraded to a 2GB card and the TomTom Home software that comes in the package helped me Backup the information from the old card and Restore it in the new 2GB card. It took a while but now I have space in the card to actually add stuff. The Home software also helped me upgrade the Operating System (firmware) on this navigation system in just a few minutes. One thing I like about this navigation is that if you miss a turn or make a wrong turn, it will automatically re-calculate the route from your current position.

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