tom tom 710

[toady1]

Hi, question for all of those who have the above unit....How good is the speed camera detection part of the unit? Ive got a RA plus at the mo which i think is brilliant for what its supposed to do, looking at getting a sat nav but want to have as good a speed cam detecter as the RA plus. any info grately appreciated!

[Big Ashy]

Its only as good as the software that you have to update off the web at regular intervals. There is no real time detection at all, It only knows the G.P.S. point where one is, was, or is now which is often the case. I`m not slagging them off, there a cracking piece of kit although you still have to be on your toes as some of the recently installed Gatso`s are not included in the downloads .

[k50 del]

I ran one all the way from Bristol to Naples having installed the pocket GPS world European camera database.

It needs some setting up (by default the unit chimes and displays the church logo whenever you're at a camera site)

Once you've done the set up though it appears faultless. It correctly located all the camera gantries on the M25 and several sites in Europe as well.

The only (important) point to note is that as mentioned earlier, there is no real time detection on Tom Tom, this means that you have no protection from the man with his laser / radar gun.

If you can live with this, then Tom Tom is good enough - it's certainly the route I'm going down once I've sold my Origin B2 and got a Nokia N73

[toady1]

bought one today from staples for £299 (£50 cheaper than anywhere else) still got my RA plus tho so may keep that too.....just incase!

[toady1]

trying to get the thing working today and it wont!!! GRRRRRRR!!! The unit is in the mode where the screen say not to remove the sd card.....but tthats all it does! anyone else had this prob?

[steve_d]

Press the reset button underneath. You may need to do this more than once.

Steve

[toady1]

cheers, fixed it now! twas my fault for not removing it from the pc properly by clicking the button! So i screwed up its memory! Simply had to reboot the unit via the tom tom home pack!