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I wonder what are the experiences of other folk.
I'm a long-time TomTom user, and have always found them OK. My major gripe was that, although it went dark at night, it wouldn't go dark in tunnels, of which Switzerland has rather many. This meant that I couldn't mount it on top of the dashboard in the line of sight, but on the air vents, where it was much less distracting, but was also more difficult to read.
Out of curiosity, I thought I'd try a Garmin satnav, and found it rather better - it does go dark in tunnels. It also tells you the names of places - well it tries, and some of the pronunciations of the German names are hilarious, but at least you usually know what they mean. I also find the Garmin colours better and I like the address bar across the top.
I have the impression that Garmin is not quite so up-to-date map-wise as is TomTom. For example, the narrow-gauge railway in our valley is being regauged from 75cm to metre-gauge, and the entire valley is one huge construction site. One cannot expect miracles, of course - I'll arrive on my bike to find that what had been a two-way road the previous day had temporarily become a one-way road in the opposite sense to where I wanted to go, and I was forced into a circuitous route to get to my office. No satnav can cope with that, but TomTom seems to be rather better at it.
The other thing I miss is Niamh ("Neeve") my Irish TomTom voice. Garmin doesn't seem to haave the same variety of voices (I believe that TomTom has John Cleese being rude to you).
I'm a long-time TomTom user, and have always found them OK. My major gripe was that, although it went dark at night, it wouldn't go dark in tunnels, of which Switzerland has rather many. This meant that I couldn't mount it on top of the dashboard in the line of sight, but on the air vents, where it was much less distracting, but was also more difficult to read.
Out of curiosity, I thought I'd try a Garmin satnav, and found it rather better - it does go dark in tunnels. It also tells you the names of places - well it tries, and some of the pronunciations of the German names are hilarious, but at least you usually know what they mean. I also find the Garmin colours better and I like the address bar across the top.
I have the impression that Garmin is not quite so up-to-date map-wise as is TomTom. For example, the narrow-gauge railway in our valley is being regauged from 75cm to metre-gauge, and the entire valley is one huge construction site. One cannot expect miracles, of course - I'll arrive on my bike to find that what had been a two-way road the previous day had temporarily become a one-way road in the opposite sense to where I wanted to go, and I was forced into a circuitous route to get to my office. No satnav can cope with that, but TomTom seems to be rather better at it.
The other thing I miss is Niamh ("Neeve") my Irish TomTom voice. Garmin doesn't seem to haave the same variety of voices (I believe that TomTom has John Cleese being rude to you).