Tom Tom 3rd Edition or Mio C320? :) Also, does anyone know if you can change the POI's in the Mio or are you just stuck with what they give you?
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I have the Mio - bought on Black Friday - will return it as I cannot make an Address book of my Favorites (places where I might go on a regular basis). This is an important part of the GPS as far as I am concerned. It may not be important in a small town. I also have used the Address Book on other units in which I set up an address of places I might go either around town or on a trip. Then when I get to the town I just turn it on and choose the Address book location I want and let it direct me.
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I would update the maps when you purchase it. I am still using mine with a few small glitches in the maps and it isn't a big deal, but I would update them if I were going to Europe. When I was in Italy in 2012 they worked flawless!
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Hi Jill,Thank you so much for this information. I was set on returning my Mio C520 because it didn't say the street name but the specifications mentioned that it did TTS. In any event, I am now keeping it. I was thinking about the Nuvi 250W with less features and more money, but I like the MIO C520 for the price. Thanks again.
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I am so glad that you posted this update as Euro updates would have been essential to me too. I looked and found no exclusion to suggest they weren't included. Very naughty of TomTom ! Worth a challenge if you can put up with the attitude of the customer service staff. I had a similar experience with the purchase of a refurbished TomTom which suggested that it had the latest maps. They weren't !!! They were three updates out of date immediately. Buyer beware.
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The C310x is nice hardware for the price, but Mio's customer service leaves a bit to be desired. I checked for updates for months, found nothing, then stopped looking for a while. When I finally do check again, I find that I've missed their introductory rate of $15 for the update and they want me to pay a whopping $70 now! That's a third the price of a new one! Bad form, Mio.
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Buy the Garmin. I had a Tom Tom Rider 2 but it "went south" after 4 years and there was no service. There were features on the Tom Tom that I liked better but the screen was too small and it would not connect to my headset consistently.
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I had the TomTom ONE 3rd edition and got the Nuvi 200 today. The TomTom's graphics are crappy but thats about it. In short, everything else is much better in the TomTom. Buy the TomTom. Nuvi 200 is missing a lot of things that the TomTom has.
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MIO's map data is only a few months old in the MIO c520. The map data belongs to Tele Atlas. The Garmin is Nav Tech data. Garmin will update their data in August of 2007. What is your home address that you said was not in the MIO? Can you see it on the map? If so you may be entering it incorrectly where there is a different name for the street in the map database.
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How can I find the date version of the current software I have?Is there a guide to how to isntall teh update from the mio site? So it is ok to update the US version with the European update?
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You need to run MioMap select "About" in one of the sub-menus to find which version. The version and date will be displayed. The update does not affect the US/Canada or POIs. It simply updates MioMap software with some bug fixes and language updates. There is no guide. Simply download and install the MioMap updater utility. Then hook up your Mio with the USB cable to your PC and run the utility. It will give you some menu options, to which you should leave the defaults as is. After the upgrade, shutdown and reboot your Mio by pressing and holding the power button for several seconds. After it reboots, select "About" under MioMap to see that the upgrade was successful.
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Hey, Andrew, I bought the TomTom One 125 at Christmas. I bought one for myself and one for my mother, who will probably never use it, but she doesn't use anything we get her for Christmas anyway. The TomTom One 125 works great with Macintosh. When you plug it into your Mac (I've used it with my MacBook), it will ask you to confirm on the GPS that you want to connect to your computer. It will then show up like a Disk Mount on your desktop. You should also download the Tom Tom Home software for Mac, which works great as well. Once your GPS is attached to your Mac, you can do things like update maps, buy new maps, buy voices, buy different icons, etc. More importantly, you can join Mapshare to get the latest corrections to maps. The 125 is basic, easy and cheap. You're right. But, that's the great thing about it. I didn't want a video player, .mp3 player, etc. in my GPS. I just wanted a GPS. The mount that comes built in to this thing is also great. I love that it is compact and that it was under $100. Hope this helps!
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Just download the POI from TomTom. I know Starbucks is already in the POI database. It's on my TomTom.
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I agree on the manual. I took the .pdf file for the big manual to a local chain office supply store, and had them make a bound hard copy of the manual for me. It was ~$24 (in black and white-which is fine), but well worth it. Within 5 minutes of reading the manual, with cam in hand, I learned several things that I had glossed over due to the electronic-only version of the manual provided by Panasonic.
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I was looking for and couldn't find a nextar P3 review either, but I ended up buying it anyway and I posted the review last night--just search the nextar P3 on amazon and it should be posted by now. Basically I think it's a great unit, but I've never owned a tom tom so I can't compare to that specifically. The nextar was super easy to setup and figure out as well.
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Have to agree with comments regarding refurb units. Buyer beware however that the maps will almost never be the newest available and my units maps were three updates old. The cost to buy the new maps would have meant the refurb unit + map upgrade would be same price as a new unit. Mmmmm. Aside from that annoyance and the refusal of TomTom to allow a free upgrade to new maps, the unit looks good as a new one.
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I don't have this unit but as far as I know it doesn't have Canada maps. A friend of mine has C220. C230 has the text to speech but with a lot less POI - only 750,000 in comparison with 3.5 million POI on the C220 but C220 doesn't have text to speech. On Mio's website, you can purchase North America maps that include U. S. and Canada for about $100 (don't remember exactly how much it is). I know it's expensive. Good luck.