Which Is Better Gps Garmin C330 Or Tomtom One 3rd Edition?
Well these are a couple of great gps units. My experience has shown me that its the maps that make the difference.
Tomtom gets their map data from a company called teleatlas a europe based company. Garmin gets theirs from navteq who are a trusted company used by mapquest, google earth, and many others. tomtom has some funky round about ways to go sometimes and I don’t have time to mess with options to make it go the best way. it should do that on its own. The c330 has the most intuitive interface I have ever used, making it a pleasure to use. 6 million points of interest vs tomtoms 3.5 million??? what are we missing here??? I don’t know, but I know there are 2.5 MILLION places I’m not gonna find on the tomtom. I have to admit the tomtom has a more portable design but it doesn’t make up for what it’s lacking. Another thing that always bothered me was the graphics, garmin has great smooth streets highways and waterways. Tomtom looks like an Atari in comparison jagged and unpleasant, Garmin’s battery life is around 8 hours, you might get 3.5 out of the tomtom. I was really excited when I got my tomtom one but after 2 weeks of silly routes and the fact that it didn’t have Lowe’s or home depot in it and who knows what else?? I said forget it and went back to Garmin. happy ever since. Oh and the guy who praises pioneer and alpine gps units. the pioneer are subpar at best with horrible satellite aquisition times and frustrating software response times.
and the alpine blackbird with its paltry battery life and innefficient recalculations of routes make those 2 gps units in the back of the line.
Go for the Garmin C330. I’ve owned two Garmin GPS units so far including the slightly newer Garmin C340 and have been very pleased with them. They’re so easy to use that even my dad could use it and that’s saying something.
What’s more, there are even free Garmin maps available for every country in the world. These are compiled by Garmin GPS enthusiast and amateur map authors. Just copy them to your SD card, pop it into your Garmin unit and you’re good to go.
IMO tomtom are great sat navs, not the very best (Alpine/pioneer for that), but having used a tomtom all over Europe when I’m doing my courier work they haven’t let me down. I have used a few different makes over the years and tomtoms are by far the best in their price range. Excellent little sat navs