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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2518 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: ONE 130S
• Dimensions: .90" h x 3.60" w x 3.30" l, 2.76 pounds
• Display size: 3.5

Features

• 3.5-inch touchscreen with award-winning Fold & Go EasyPort mount that folds flat against the device, making it easy to take it with you from car to car
• Effortless navigation from A to B--enter the address on the touchscreen or use voice address entry and start driving anywhere in the United States and Canada, guided by 3D graphics and turn-by-turn spoken instructions, including street names
• Preloaded with millions of points of interest to enhance your traveling experience--easily find your favorite gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and more
• With TomTom Map Share technology, you can instantly modify street names, street direction, POIs, road speeds, and turn restrictions on your own device
• Help Me! menu provides added safety features so you can easily access local emergency providers, such as police, fire stations, and hospitals

Amazon.ca Product Description
The TomTom ONE 130-S is easy-to-use personal navigation. TomTom's award-winning software means effortless navigation from point A to point B. Switch on and go right out of the box. Just enter the address on the touchscreen and start driving anywhere in the United States or Canada. TomTom guides you door-to-door with turn-by-turn spoken instructions including street names. And 3D graphics help guide you to your destination, worry free.

Easy-to-use widescreen navigation. Click to enlarge.

TomTom guides you door-to-door with turn-by-turn spoken instructions, including street names. Click to enlarge.

The ONE 130-S is preloaded with millions of points of interest to enhance your traveling experience--easily find your favorite gas stations, hotels, restaurants, and more.

TomTom has the most accurate maps, and with TomTom Map Share technology, you instantly can modify street names, street direction, points of interest, and more on your own device.

And with the "Help Me!" menu, added safety features enable you to easily access local emergency providers, such as police, fire stations, and hospitals. The "Where am I?" feature pinpoints your exact location to give to emergency providers.

The Fold & Go EasyPort mount folds flat against the device, making it easy to take it with you from car to car.

No activation, no monthly fees.

Go confidently.

ONE 130-S Features

• Maps of United States and Canada with TomTom Map Share
• Spoken Street Names
• Fold & Go EasyPort Mount

All TomToms Feature

Plug & Go--Works right out of the box.

Preloaded Points of Interest--Easily find millions of gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more on your route.

30-Day Latest Map Guarantee--Up to date, off the shelf.

TomTom Map Share--Modify your own map and benefit from others' verified changes with TomTom Map Share.

Help Me! Emergency Menu--Easily access local emergency providers, such as police, fire stations, and hospitals.

TomTom HOME--Always up to date.

Traffic Ready--Optional RDS-TMC traffic receiver accessory keeps you up-to-date on traffic events to minimize potential delays.

Fuel Price Service (optional)--Know more, pay less.

Why TomTom?

TomTom believes that personal navigation should be as easy and safe as possible. TomTom develops smart technology that gives you straightforward solutions, innovations to make life easy.

Easy to Use

• Award-winning navigation software
• Plug & go

Best Maps

• 30-Day Latest Map Guarantee
• Modify your own map and benefit from others' verified changes with TomTom Map Share

Best Routing

• QuickGPSfix
• Traffic ready

Leader in Safety

• Help Me! emergency resources menu
• Safety preferences menu

About TomTom

Founded in Amsterdam in 1991, TomTom has established itself as a global leader in navigation by being an innovative company with a strong brand, clear customer focus, and high-quality products and services.

TomTom is a leading navigation solutions provider with navigation products sold in 30 countries and in over 20 languages. To further its commitment to car navigation, TomTom acquired Tele Atlas maps in 2008 so that the company can continually provide the most up-to-date maps and intelligent routing.

TomTom has its own mapping company!

Did you know that every year, roads change by up to 40% in high-growth areas? Tele Atlas manages this by using the world's most comprehensive systems to identify and incorporate these changes into our maps with unprecedented levels of speed and accuracy. All TomTom devices benefit from the Tele Atlas advantage--more coverage, more points of interest, and more freshness and accuracy.

What's in the Box

ONE 130-S device, Easyport mount, USB Car Charger and USB cable, documentation

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Customer Reviews

Inaudible speakers, but very customizable.
Edited to add: This review is for the TomTom 130S model. The TomTom 130 does not have text-to-speech, but only "turn by turn" instructions (i.e. "turn left" NOT "turn left on X street").

I finally invested in a GPS as I was tired of getting lost, and was going on a road trip soon. I decided on the TomTom 130S primarily because of the text-to-speech, route avoidance (lets you avoid tolls!), and QWERTY and ABC keyboard option, which is more rare with 3.5'' GPS devices.

Here are a few key points to consider...

1) Volume - the volume is not audible. I listened to this in a quiet room, indoors...the only thing I heard was my family saying how quiet the system was. I tried this on the highway with the radio off and windows rolled up and it was useless. This is a huge minus as I wanted to hear instructions to help me focus on the road! NOTE: You can select a variety of voices, but only the COMPUTER VOICES can pronounce street names. The downside is the computer voices are much quieter than the "real" voices. Even TomTom has acknowledged the defect with the 130s, so I don't get WHY they're still selling it! It's turned me off buying from TomTom for a really long time. Even if you can hear the sounds, the people do NOT speak clearly, it's jumbled; throw in the broken speakers and you might as well eliminate TTS as a feature of this GPS. ***see note at end

2) Navigation - compared to other similar devices, such as Garmin Nuvi's lower end models, the GUI for this TomTom was not very friendly or intuitive. You often have to go through several menus to get what you want. I strongly recommend a potential buyer to try this out in stores first and compare it against other models such as Garmin. If it becomes frustrating to find points of interests, input locations, and even find out where you are currently, then you will not be happy with the system down the road.

3) Map display - a fun thing you can do is choose the colour scheme for this, but the thing I did not like is how the maps are not drawn very smoothly, and very few street names are displayed. To zoom in, there is NO zoom in/out on the map screen, rather you have to go to a separate menu and then there is an option there to zoom. There's a turn indicator, which is a plus (to remind you whether your upcoming turn is left/right), and remaining time/distance, most of which you can customize. Hit the bottom left and the voice instructions will repeat again, perfect if you missed it the first time. Another issue: high way ramps and exits are called "unknown road" - since you can't hear the instructions well, it makes getting off highways even more difficult.

4) Speed - I've noticed a few instances where the GPS took its sweet time. (1) The GPS calculates a route, and then asks you whether you want to avoid tolls. Then it calculates the route AGAIN. I'm not sure why they don't ask you ahead of time. (2) Processor speed in general - when you type in words, it has auto complete. This is great, except for a lag. You hit "Toronto" but by then the screen has changed, causing me to have to hit back more than once. (It's kind of hard to describe this, but it's like dealing with laggy webpages.)

In the end, this device is quite feature packed and would seem like it's worth the price IF everything worked, but TomTom should have focused more on making the basics work properly (user friendly interface, audible and CLEAR instructions). This GPS will work if you just need a really basic MAP, it's small, and the windshield amount can stay attached to the GPS because it folds up, which makes it great for taking with you. (And ALWAYS take your GPS out of your car and remove the mount from your windshield; windows are easy to smash and GPS systems easy to steal!)


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SIDE NOTE fyi: This model comes packaged in the plastic packages that you have to CUT open, and use a lot of force to remove the contents. I'm not sure why they don't use a box, so you can also use it to store away your documentation and cables neatly.

Thanks for reading my review and happy shopping!