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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: $199.95
Buy New: $128.99
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New (12) Used (1) from $132.00
Rating:  90 reviews
Sales Rank: 673
Color: Grey/Black
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Native Resolution: 320x240
Display Size: 3.5
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 3.3 x 3.6 x 0.8
MPN: ONE 130
Model: ONE 130
UPC: 636926020343
EAN: 0636926020343
ASIN: B0014GXCBI
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Very Smart GPS November 6, 2008
Swede (Sacramento CA USA)
I have owned a TomTom One for almost a year and I recommend it to everyone. In fact, I loaned mine to my son who recently drove across country from Sacramento to Washington DC. He and my daughter (who came with him) loved it so much that he just got one for himself. He is living in a new urban area that he is not familiar with and finds it invaluable. My daughter was so impressed that she is getting one too. One interesting little adventure that the TomTom took them on was coming into the west side of Indianapolis on I-70. The TomTom took them on a shortcut on a major surface street that saved them about 20 miles! They called me and asked me what it was doing and when I went online, I immediately understood the logic of what was happening.
 Simply Easy November 5, 2008
Justus Heger
My 75 year old Father frequently uses my TomTom One. Whether it is to go on trip to another State, or somewhere he simply isn't familiar with he has no problem with the interface. I use the TomTom when traveling to Air Force Bases. With the easily downloaded information, each one is preloaded on the TomTom.
TomTom ONE 130S-Good Price, Highly Useful, and Fun. October 30, 2008
Samuel Edwin Fry Jr. (Olympia, Washington)
The information I received about TomTom ONE 130S prior to purchase was excellent--balanced and accurate. It is a fine GPS for the average driver, being fun and easy to operate. Searching for a B&B in small towns, finding the correct turn off busy highways, or finding a friend's home in the suburbs on a dark rainy night, this is a great product for non-tech wizzards.
 Lost in the ozone again October 29, 2008
Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
After living in the Boston area for years (and spending a great deal of time being lost) and now being equally lost in the twisty hills near Philadelphia, I broke down and ADMITTED that sometimes, a GPS device would be just dandy to get me to an unfamiliar location.
I chose the Tomtom based on some good reviews--here, thank you, and a great price point (also here, thanks Amazon.) For $149, you can get a reasonably fully-featured car GPS with simple-to-use features and user-updates for free plus extras.
1. The out-of-box experience.
Here is where the one star comes off a five-star rating. The anti-theft extra thick, sealed plastic bubble pack required a laser cutter and a nuclear detonator to open. Lacking these household tools, I had to carefully cut the plastic open with sharp scissors and a hunting knife, risking cutting myself. I understand that stores want to display these on a rack, and that some not-very-nice people try to slip their larcenous little hands in to steal the loot, but this package resisted me for a solid half an hour. How about packaging ones for direct shipment in a box?
The instruction book is slim and is mostly in iconic (picture) format. I realize people can't or won't read; but puzzling out someone's idea of what I am seeing is actually slower than moving my lips when I read.
The unit has a nice map-like piece of paper protecting the screen, nice touch. The screen is plastic. The mount is a sticky suction cup, and there is a left-handed option. There is also a speaker mount because the voice is very faint. I chose "Mandy" (one of the free voices) and she whispered her directions to me, over the sound of my engine. Not great. Will be trying the speaker. The Brit voice option, male or female, was absolutely annoying. How about a Cockney or Aussie option? Or a really bossy German-accented English? That'd be cool.
The real issue was the start-up. I decided I wanted to see it in home first rather than in the auto, so I fired up the USB attachment. The menus were so-so, first, actually, you have to update all kinds of options and you aren't even SURE if you want them but what the hell? I took them. This took about 30 minutes.
Then I fired up the unit and holy hell, it was totally in Finnish. Yes, I realize the Finns are without a doubt the world's finest creators of cell phones and GPS devices, but if my unit had defaulted to ENGLISH when initially turned on, about 3 billion more people could have understood the initial unit instructions. I puzzled my way through to find the options menu to change language and finally got English. Setting "English" in the software for the at-home function had NO effect on the unit which persisted in spitting umlauts, diacritical marks and a lot of double "a's" and "u's" at me until I learned Elementary Finnish (Foreign Service Level 1) in a hot hurry and got it to quit that stuff and get back to English. I'm not a language-o-phobe by any means, being tri-lingual but I draw the line at Finnish.
So one star is off for out-of-box, kind of rocky start.
2. Into the car
I plugged the unit into the cigarette lighter and it fired up, (and having then finally changed it into English), it was very easy to set up directions to my office. Yes, yes, I know the way to my office, but it was a CRITICAL test because Garmin and other units seem to think my office is way across town, in a similarly-named center. The Tomtom, with the updated maps and user-corrections, recognized my office complex right away. Bravo! No more sad calls from confused visitors looking at the wrong office center, and late appointments to my place if you are using the latest version of this GPS.
The voice was rather dim, telling me where to turn (like I didn't know) and I can see I will need the speaker if I intend to use this in my forays to parts unknown. Having the radio on is really tough; if it's yapping at you, you will miss critical information. The screen display is nice--shows the route, your speed and the suggestions by the state (lower...) and the miles left to your destination.
There are options for traffic reports, for fuel stops, alluring shopping possibilities (this should be interesting) and other attractions, assuming you are in a place with attractions. Here, the attractions are a large statue that looks like one of the Fantastic Four crushing a car (The Monster Mile at the Dover Downs Speedway), The Wye Oak, a large tree that blew down and doesn't exist anymore and the Mason-Dixon Line marker. That's about it.
The unit did take me to parts unknown "north of the canal" (the fearful divider between North and South Delaware.) It adapted to several wrong turns I deliberately (hah! right!) made and directed me, even through back streets, to my destination. On the way home, however, it made some peculiar choices in ways to get there--roads I never would think to take. Next time, I'm going to try the suggestions, but I think some of the observations that the routes chosen are rather wonky is probably CORRECT. Also, I put in a favorite restaurant, and drove there from work, and it missed the correct intersection to turn in, taking me one more and farther away than would be optimal, though do-able. In short, not perfect. But I love the feeling of being able to go to parts unknown and have some probably expectation of getting there without being entirely lost.
3. Summary
I like this unit a lot--it's portable, reasonably full-featured and has a three hour battery. The instructions could be better. The voice could be louder, but over all, I'd recommend this one as very user-friendly ONCE you get past the box opening stage.
 It could be great if you could only use it October 24, 2008
William T. Wildman (Phoenix, Arizona United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Aside from the fact that the carrying case that I ordered didn't fit the Tom Tom, it appears to work OK. Unfortunately, the instructions were a series of ineptly drawn cartoons with no explanation so it has sat on my kitchen counter for 4 weeks well I try and figure out how to install it in my car. It looks like I will have to go to Best Buy to find out about installation. I love the books from Amazon but I will never buy any item, electronics or whatever, that requires any instructions regarding installation or use. By the way, both Amazon and the seller of the carrying case were quick in asking me if I liked the product, but when I told them that it was the wrong case and sent them the name and serial number of the Tom Tom, I never heard from either of them again.
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