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I love my TomTom, it's been a long while since I have had a Navman, but that was pretty good in it's day too.
Now I have a Pioneer AVIC in one beast and the RNS510 in the other. Both work reasonably well, although updates a few and far between and there are glaring omissions in what are $2,000+ systems. Like decent speed camera support? Or POI's that alert you?
The RNS is far better than the AVIC in terms of interface, however lacks any warnings for speed/school etc (yes you can hack in POI's for this, but there is no audible alert). The AVIC takes strange routes sometimes, but when you have no clue where you are going at least you get there.
The TomTom I have is an older unit now, but has route aware speed camera's and school zones, displays the speed for the current road you are on as well as your current speed, it tells you street names, it even has a small indicator for the turn after next... always handy to know you are going left then immediately right so you are in the correct lane (although to be fair the RNS is pretty good at telling you this too). I'm at a total loss as to why features that have been in cheap hand held units are just not available on these "high end" head unit jobs.
In reality I like the convenience of the built in solution, but would almost certainly replace both head units if TomTom ever release a proper in car unit.
Now I have a Pioneer AVIC in one beast and the RNS510 in the other. Both work reasonably well, although updates a few and far between and there are glaring omissions in what are $2,000+ systems. Like decent speed camera support? Or POI's that alert you?
The RNS is far better than the AVIC in terms of interface, however lacks any warnings for speed/school etc (yes you can hack in POI's for this, but there is no audible alert). The AVIC takes strange routes sometimes, but when you have no clue where you are going at least you get there.
The TomTom I have is an older unit now, but has route aware speed camera's and school zones, displays the speed for the current road you are on as well as your current speed, it tells you street names, it even has a small indicator for the turn after next... always handy to know you are going left then immediately right so you are in the correct lane (although to be fair the RNS is pretty good at telling you this too). I'm at a total loss as to why features that have been in cheap hand held units are just not available on these "high end" head unit jobs.
In reality I like the convenience of the built in solution, but would almost certainly replace both head units if TomTom ever release a proper in car unit.
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