On TomTom’s website for NZ sales it has a “TomTom car kit for iPhone for in-car installation” which seems to be for their propitiatory promount fitting rather than windshield fitting.

Apart from wondering if this will decrease the gps lock due to being further away from the window and also how secure it is compared with the window sucker it mentions in the specs a different value for the charger compared with what was previously mentioned on here.

Compatible car charger

4UOC.001.00
12/24V input
5V/2A output

(liviy has made 1 comment)

i just checked my unit, and it doesn’t even charge with just using bluetooth and playing music (not even using gps)

tomtom needs to own up to it and take some responsibility for their product.

(tom has made 1 comment)

I just checked my unit

Tom tom charges (very slowly) fine with GPS (Sygic) and bluetooth running.

So it's not a universal issue it would appear.

(Richard has made 50 comments)

I went into DSE on the 8th of Jan and placed an order for one when the next batch come in (was told the 31st of Jan) but this morning got a call saying that there wont be a shipment coming in Jan now due to reason unknown. Tomtom didn't tell them why or when to expect them, just that it may be a couple of months!! wonder if this power issue is something to do with it?? Still this is very poor of them, they had forever to develop, build & keep up supply of this kit but have failed miserably!

(Joshwah has made 1 comment)

I think it’s the GPS chip that’s using all the power, mine gets real warm using any GPS app and battery drops accordingly. The less than $12NZD charger and windscreen mount I got from dealextreme.com will charge my battery (I.e. eventually reach 100%) with GPS App running, it says 1A max output on it. Tomtom have simply supplied a charger with insufficient capacity.

(leStar has made 63 comments)

I have looked into this further and what they say is quite untrue.

I have two cars – both with chargers/audio links built into the stereo and a Tom Tom unit in one car, and a bluetooth speaker unit in the other

I tested car 1 (without tom tom) using Sygic GPS app, bluetooth on AND playing music for 1 hour. After 10 min battery dropped from 100% to 99% and then stayed there for the whole time.

I will test the same in the car with the Tom Tom unit, and if the battery goes down, then re-test it using the charger from the stereo, but still connecting to the bluetooth of the Top-Tom to see if its the charging of the Tom-Tom that’s not good enough, or it’s Tom Tom’s bluetooth that’s sucking too much juice.

Will update soon, but we already know they are lying. Other chargers CAN cope.

Richard

(Richard has made 50 comments)