Hi. Great review. I got my tomtom car kit today in Spain. I also noticed the wobbling and I find it a bit anoying for a product of this price. During a call, the voice quality was refered at the other end as “ok”, with some distortion.

I wonder if the wobbling and play is different among units. Have any of you returned the unit or tested other tomtom car kits that don’t wobble so much?.

Javier

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Where did you get it from Nordy?

(Dan has made 610 comments)

Got my TomTom carkit yesterday. So far i like it, not happy with the voice performance of the call but i think that was something i can change (ie turn volume down ask dad to speak up )

Defiantly easier having the phone mounted that’s for sure, still figuring out a permanent mounting spot, the temp one works for now.

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@jasetylor thx for the review but I’ve decided to go with Kensington car mount on Amazon which also holds my iPhone in my OtterBox Defender Case and a car charger will do for me. So how much does it cost you to get the TomTom car kit in total NZD? I don’t think it is worth it to me.

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@jasetylor yes but this release does state that map updates will be included (just not which countries) so unless they have a different system for updating the maps here in NZ (probably) then hopefully we should see something. Note that the ** condition only talks about the Safety Camera info and not the maps themselves, so they haven't specified which maps will get updates.

From the Press Release:

- Updated map and safety camera database**.

** Safety Camera information is available in selected European countries including: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom.

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@Dan I did call Tomtom ref the map updates, as they already had a newer New Zealand map but did not include it in the last app update V1.1 I was informed that map updates are not free whilst app updates are, if I want the latest map I need to re-purchase the app.

Warning – the system for re-purchasing to get a newer map is not in place and as for as I know the update will still have the old map which was out of date when they released the V1.0 app.

Boo.

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I nearly got nailed approaching a roundabout, leaning forward with left arm stretched out to anwser a call, I entered the roundabout too distracted to notice a car speeding at me, too close!

Learnt a lesson there…….

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@mattallen666 – Lets hope the maps are updated for New Zealand in that release.

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This should help – http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/12/tomtom-to-bring-lane-guidance-text-to-speech-ipod-control-to-i/

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Thanks for that review Jason, I think Ill stick with my Navman and iphone hooked up to the stereo.

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I dont think you can, the cradle is a tight fit.

Thanks Steve for the heads up on assigning the home button, I guess the Co-pilot app with in-app ipod control would work well with this mount.

(jasetaylor has made 10 comments)

Good review, thanks.

How much did it cost you to get from the UK, and how much do we expect it to go for here?

(nz.craig has made 9 comments)

Can you have a case on your iPhone while in the cradle? – I have the very thin incipio case but not interested in the cradle if it means I would have to take it off each time

(Rudy has made 2 comments)

Big thanks for writing this review, Jason

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To nz.craig

The car kit was 99 pounds of stirling then postage to NZ. I have no idea of the NZ price but I hope it follows US pricing rather than UK.

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