...another TomTom related problem is the volume on the cradle. It doesn't remember the last volume setting, so when you power it down, or even just remove the iPhone the next time it is back to near minimum volume. annoying.
That one irritates me too, I can kind of understand that behaviour *if* they'd provided an option in the car kit tool to set the default level, but they haven't, it always reverts back to the "this is what we've deemed default to be" level. I always jack it right up.
I have tried the TomTom app both with and without the cradle for navigation and the GPS in the cradle is clearly much better than the one built in the iPhone. It gets a lock amazingly quickly and never lost it once during the few hundred miles I did yesterday. The standard GPS jumps about a bit and seems to lag behind causing the voice prompts to be given quite late on some occasions. So I need the TomTom cradle for GPS and the mounting solution, and the parrot for just about everything else!
Thats the same result I get on my 3G, without the cradle the GPS is not reliable at all in the car, although it seems that YMMV with regards to whether it works acceptably or not.
TomTom did make me smile friday night on the way home, as I came out of the limehouse link tunnel it got a little confused (it had picked up a lock straight away and was showing me on the map in the right place) and told me to follow the limehouse link for 3 thousand, eight hundred and eighty miles. Bit extreme I thought!
Adrian
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