Thread: TomTom usability - coverage - reliability...

1. How satisfied are you?
Very much, quite stable, no crashes at all 5/5 (TomTom NDS)

2. What mode (car, truck, motorbike)
I have volume license for SygicTruck at work (mid/large delivery vans), and privately car license (on my wife's phone, Sygic)

3. How reliable was it?
No problems. traffic is super accurate

4. How good was map coverage?
Pretty good

5. Are you satisfied with routing?
Routing is pretty good, although sometimes it gives me some crazy routes 4/5 (I still need to take a look on whole route before "GO")

6. Which country did you use it in?
Based on frequency: Slovenia (home), Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria

7. Has it ever let you down?
Not so far (aside for crazy/longer routes sometimes

8. Is there anything you miss inside TomTom?
Yes, hate stupid limitation on 5 POI categories (I know this may not be an issue for many people, but for my business this is quite annoying). Also POIs are not so precisely placed on map, which for delivery is quite an issue (so I always need to double check with google maps street view).

9. How was it in compare to: iGO, Sygic Truck, Copilot, Google Maps, Sygic GPS Here We GO etc etc.
As said I was (and still is) long-term sygictruck user. SygicTtruck has better layout during driving (TT has this annoying "billboard" occupying 1/3 of the screen, blocking your view, at least they should make it semi-transparent like in iOS version). In Greece TT is always better (in my experience at least), as it doesn't have small dirt roads mapped like SygicTruck, and due to poor speed limits implementation, very often those dirt roads have 50 km/h speed limit by default, resulting in constant redirection/deviation from the main road... Aside from that pretty similar. I also like default zoom level on TT better (similar like regular Sygic), where in SyigcTruck everything is zoomed out too far (so you don't see traffic colors until it's late). Lastly, but maybe most important thing for me - TT has online search, where SygicTruck/Sygic are pure offline maps so you need to rely on POI database (often very poor) from vendor. To me this is a deal breaker.

One more thing - TT NDS has pretty similar routing as TomTom 6200 standalone satnav, although they are not the same (never had any issue with crazy routing with 6200, and I was comparing them side by side multiple times for the past few months).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,