Death after update

After several hard internals I was for a second car on the lookout for an easy-to-use and compact Navigerät. Impressed by TomTom visibility I put me to the XL IQ Edition Europe - a serious mistake, as it turned out put after the arrival the same evening.

Arrived, unpacked and taken into the car. After a few seconds the unit had a satellite fix, the necessary basic settings were made quickly. The holder is compact and easy to use, which is a plus. At the first intersection the device's built some time ago beltway was not, lt. Equipment I drove right through the wilderness. Ok, the road there are also only two (!) Years and there is an update function of the device.

So in the evening the HOME software installed (there is both a Mac as well as Windows version, very good. If the Mac version would not be programmed so sloppy that it crashes twice within a very short time, which really on a Mac a true program engineering feat represents). Clicked update feature - oh yes, there are even installed a newer card than on the device. The HOME program provides immediate, download them, what I perceive also. That's :-( That the TomTom server is a little lame, you can get over. But that the 1.7GB file at the speed of USB 1.1 is transferred to the device, is an unreasonable demand for each customer. It is incredible . slowly at 75% then interrupts the update (reproducible!) from and that means the end of the unit, the old functioning card away, the new is not right on it -. and the device is also by multiple experiments both on Mac as Windows no longer move to adopt a new card. announces the update function, that there is no more current map more and the device itself reports that no card is present, to which it could access. Also reset and hours of tests with instructions from the forums brought no improvement.

According to Board reports are in this update error not an isolated case, but it will be shut down regularly brand new equipment after 1 update.

Since I have neither the desire nor the time for such sloppiness and poor programmed software, the unit returns. I'll switch to one of the other reputable manufacturer and not take into account the company TomTom safely in future.