TomTom XXL 540S 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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TomTom XXL 540S 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
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Average customer review : 4.0/5
Total customer review : 113 Reviews
Total customer review : 113 Reviews
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Product Features
- TomTom GPS navigation with a 5-inch, full-color, TFT LCD widescreen touch display
- Pre-loaded maps of U.S., Canada, and Mexico with TomTom Map Share, Advanced Lane Guidance, and 7 Million POIs
- IQ Routes Technology gives you the fastest route every time by using actual average speeds of travel on your route to calculate your trip
- With TomTom Map Share technology, you can instantly modify street names, street direction, POIs, road speeds, and turn restrictions on your own device
- Award-winning Fold and Go EasyPort mount, folds flat against the device, making it easy for users to transport
Product Details
BatteriesIncluded : 1
Binding : Electronics
Brand : TomTom
Color : black
EAN : 0636926032308
Edition : 540S
Feature : TomTom GPS navigation with a 5-inch, full-color, TFT LCD widescreen touch display
Feature : Pre-loaded maps of U.S., Canada, and Mexico with TomTom Map Share, Advanced Lane Guidance, and 7 Million POIs
Feature : IQ Routes Technology gives you the fastest route every time by using actual average speeds of travel on your route to calculate your trip
Feature : With TomTom Map Share technology, you can instantly modify street names, street direction, POIs, road speeds, and turn restrictions on your own device
Feature : Award-winning Fold and Go EasyPort mount, folds flat against the device, making it easy for users to transport
Format : CD
IsAutographed : 0
IsMemorabilia : 0
ItemDimensions : Height : 350
Length : 530
Weight : 44
Width : 90
Length : 530
Weight : 44
Width : 90
Label : TomTom
ListPrice : Amount : 19900
CurrencyCode : USD
FormattedPrice : $199.00
CurrencyCode : USD
FormattedPrice : $199.00
Manufacturer : TomTom
Model : 1EP0.052.01
MPN : 1EP0.052.01
OperatingSystem : N/A
PackageDimensions : Height : 180
Length : 690
Weight : 105
Width : 690
Length : 690
Weight : 105
Width : 690
PackageQuantity : 1
ProductGroup : CE
ProductTypeName : GPS_OR_NAVIGATION_SYSTEM
Publisher : TomTom
Studio : TomTom
Style : 540s with US Maps
Title : TomTom XXL 540S 5-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator
UPC : 636926032308
Editorial Reviews
- Amazon.com Product DescriptionThe TomTom XXL 540S is complete navigation in a XXL widescreen device. Switch on and it's ready right out of the box. Spoken turn-by-turn instructions, including street names, will guide you to any address in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico--including more than 7 million pre-loaded points of interest.
Complete navigation in a XXL widescreen device. Click to enlarge.
EasyPort mount folds neatly onto the back of your device. Click to enlarge.
Advanced Lane Guidance uses photorealistic images to bring even more clarity to complex multi-lane exits. Click to enlarge.
Complete XXL Widescreen Navigation and Spoken Street Names
IQ Routes
IQ Routes technology* gives you the fastest route every time by using actual average speeds of travel on your route to calculate your trip rather than only posted speed limits, so you'll always travel the smartest route.Advanced Lane Guidance
Advanced Lane Guidance** uses photorealistic images to bring even more clarity to complex multi-lane exits so you can be more confident on the road.5-Inch Touchscreen
An extra-wide 5-inch touchscreen helps you find your way, worry-free.TomTom Map Share
TomTom has the most accurate maps, and with TomTom Map Share technology, you can instantly modify street names, street direction, POIs, road speeds, and turn restrictions on your own device.Get Help
With the "Help Me!" menu, there are added safety features so you can easily access local emergency providers.EasyPort Mount
The award-winning Fold and Go EasyPort mount folds flat against the device, making it easy to take with you from car to car.The XXL 540S is complete, widescreen navigation.
*Feature only available in the U.S. and Canada
**Feature available in the U.S. onlyWhat's in the Box
TomTom XL 540S device, EasyPort mount, USB cable, adhesive disk, car charger, and user's guide.
Customer Reviews
not that great but usable
I've been using an OnCourseNavigator 8 on my PDA before, so this would be the basis of my comparison. The problem with PDA is that it requires carrying around too many components (PDA, mount, GPS receiver), and without power PDA discharges the battery and loses the information after a few days even when turned off. And PDA really is not intended for the in-car use, I've had a few failures with the cables or contacts. So I've decided to get a dedicated GPS unit. I've had a pretty bad experience with my old Garmin and would never buy a Garmin product again, so this time Tomtom it is.
It turns on fast. It acquires the satellites fast (beats that old Garmin i've used for the receiver by a long way). The screen is bright and I've never had an issue with seeing it even in the bright sunlight, unlike the PDA. And obviously the 5" display is much bigger and better than 3.5" in the PDA.
There is a choice of the pre-recorded voices but only one computer-generated US English voice "Susan". People who complain that it's hard to understand are probably from places where they speak slowly. If you're from say New Jersey or Virgina, there is no problem. It's not great, I'd like it to be a lot more high-pitched and thus clearer, but it's acceptable. The pre-recorded voices aren't any better. The directions given with the pre-recorded voices and with the computer-generated voice are different. With the pre-recorded voices they suck, with computer voice they're OK and compensate for the deficiencies of the on-screen information. The volume changes with the speed, and I find it annoying. By comparison, in OCN8 the voice is much better, and the voice directions are somewhat better, even than the computer voice version, even without text-to-speech in OCN.
I don't use the 3D view since when the GPS determines an incorrect position (between tall buildings in a city, or just thinking of a parallel road, it goes crazy and unusable while the 2D view still gives the good idea. The 2D map view in Tomtom has a bunch of issues. First, almost all of the streets on it are left unlabeled. Second, there is no way to make it keep the same zoom. It rescales automatically after a little while. The zoom buttons don't work continuously, they require the repeated poking. And the map redrawing is just glacial slow. There is also no way to drag the map on the screen, zooming in and out are the only options.
There is a separate "map browse" mode where some of these issues go away: the streets get labeled, the scale stays fixed, zoom can be adjusted smoothly, and the map can be dragged. However getting into that mode takes 3 clicks. Every time it returns to the last browsed place, and getting to the GPS position takes one more click, and it doesn't track the GPS position automatically. The redrawing is still hugely slow, both on zoom and on dragging, and very annoying. OCN8 is light years ahead here.
There are multiple color modes for both day and night, all of them not that good. There is not enough contrast between the plotted route and the roads in general, especially interstates tend to be too close to it. For the day mode the best I've found is with red-brown route and greenish interstates. The night modes are all poor, with shades of the same color used for both the roads and the route. (OCN8 day mode is even worse but I use it always in the night mode with the roads blue and the route bright white).
The routing is OK, about the same in Tomtom and OCN, both of them sometimes looking strange if you know the area. The route summary is much better in Tomtom, since it includes the interstate exit numbers. The driving instruction display is better in OCN, since it shows two steps ahead, not just one, but with the computer voice Tomtom at least tells the second step vocally. I still haven't found a way to adjust the route manually in Tomtom. In OCN it's a little awkward but doable and obvious.
The battery life is not that good, about 90 minutes or so. The user-friendliness of setup is great, giving the explanations at just the right time during the initial setup.
the map is really bad
I bought this GPS a month ago. The screen is good, as well as personlized settings. However, the map, which is a key point for a GPS, is not good at all. I could not find my destinations no matter which way I searched them. This situation happened quite offen. I think that's why this 5 inch screen GPS is so cheap. Money never goes to the wrong way.
This is an awesome GPS with ew cons
Pros: most of the things described in the item description is upto the mark. However i has no option to expand the memory. the unit i got has a bug in it. the desciption of the bug is as follow. If i set a owner name in GPS and turn off and then turn on it starts but hangs on on the page showing this belongs to "Owner's name" and stucks there/ of u press continue on that page it does not go anywhere so the GPS stops there. then u have to connect to a pc with tom tom home and rest the owner. then it works
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