Review on 🗺️ TomTom ONE Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator: Expert-Approved Device, Now Discontinued by Ickey Case

I recommend avoiding the TomTom One. It gives incorrect or at best misleading instructions almost every time I've used it for the last 4 days. TomTom One is easy to use, intuitive and has a lot of nice features. But the all-important routing algorithm needs serious improvement. I haven't used other GPS devices, but Mapquest, Google Maps and other internet services are much more accurate than TomTom. One day I ended up in the wrong state! Sometimes the directions lead me there, but I take the obvious detour. Often the voice system prompts me to do something that causes me to miss the exit or choose the wrong exit, while the image on the screen shows the correct movement (e.g. the voice says "go left" and the picture says at the last moment - implies a right exit). Since I rely more on the language than the graphics, I can easily get into trouble. I can't stress enough how many times things have gone wrong with directions and for that reason I recommend avoiding this model. Below are some, but not all, of the issues I encountered during the 4 day test. Example: Ambler, Pennsylvania to PHL Airport and bypass I-76. The directions start out wrong - I have to take the longer, slower, stoplight-filled local roads instead of the shorter, faster Rt. Expressway 309 to PA with no lights. The directions end wrong - and somewhat disastrously - when they take exit 12 off I-95 (that's the airport exit that takes you right into the heart of the airport) and instead onto exit 13 and 3 local roads with multiple traffic lights (an extension the time by more than 5 minutes). Example: King of Prussia, PA at 923 Fairmount Ave, Philadelphia, PA. It was another catastrophic error when TomTom gave the wrong directions that forced me to drive to New Jersey. There they were told to leave I-676 at 6th Street and turn left. But only right turns are allowed. Then when I turned right he told me to turn left then. That drives me to the Ben Franklin Bridge and to New Jersey. So I was supposed to take the 8th Street exit off I-676, continue to 7th Street, and then turn left. Example: PHL Airport in Ambler, Pennsylvania. There are 3 problems. One is almost catastrophic. First I'm on I-476 going to I-276 EB. Just before the toll station, a voice says keep to the right. If I had done that, I would have been forced to take a plug on the I-276 VB (vice versa). I have to keep left until the tollbooth, then keep right after the tollbooth. Next on this journey I'm on Rt. 309. "Voice" and the lower left corner of the screen says "go left" from Rt. 309 to Highland Avenue. This is the exit on the right. It's funny how the on-screen graphics show everything correctly once you're over the exit, but the pre-warning and voice get it wrong. last quarter or so. Example: From Chicago to Ambler, Pennsylvania, it says I-80 from Illinois straight to Rt. 309 in Ambler, Pennsylvania. However, I-80 is about 50 miles from Rt. 309 at the closest point. The real problem is that I-80 becomes I-76 near the Pennsylvania border in Ohio (to stay on I-80 you have to turn) and then I-76 becomes I-76 near Philadelphia 276 (to stay on I-76, you'll have to go too). Since there are no exits, the device will never notice that you didn't stop at I-80. In 3D graphics this is correct, but it is very misleading when the signs say I-80 when you need to turn onto I-76 (and later onto I-276). It would be nice if the directions showed where to pay the fare Example: It locates my mother's home in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, about a half mile from its actual location. To be fair, so does Mapquest and Google Maps. Example: Driving to Patten Road, Highland Park, Illinois - he magically wants me to cross the park to get from 1st Street to Patten Road. Example: Drive to 125 Village Blvd, Princeton, New Jersey. It says there are two village boulevards, one in "Kingston" and one in "Plainsboro" (Princeton is just a mailbox). The Plainsboro Police Department (not the Kingston Police Department) maintains this location, so I went with the latter option. Not right! Example: I have requested that service area and gas station landmarks be displayed. They never showed up while driving on I-80, I-76, or I-276, but there are rest stops about every 35 miles.