Take A Good Look At What Tom Tom Has To Offer With it XXL 530S, XXL 540S and XL 340S Models

TomTom’s two choices, the Tom Tom XXL 540S plus the Tom Tom XXL 530S, have 5- inch screens. 

The main difference between the Tom Tom XXL 540S plus the Tom Tom XXL 530s is that it is deficient in a lane guidance highlight and maps of Mexico, and has a smaller points- of- interest(POI) database. 

The premium that the Tom Tom XXL 540S commands over the XL 340S may sound pricey when you consider that you’re obtaining a screen diagonal that’s only. 7 inch longer; but that calculates to 33 percent more monitor real estate, and it’s a pleasant supplement. The Tom Tom XXL 540S has the same very easy- to- use interface and menu system that practically all other TomTom products do, however it’s a lot easier to see on a wider display. 

Tapping somewhere on the view takes you to the main menu with two screens of options, including ‘Navigate to’, ‘Help me’, ‘Change Preferences’, ‘Map Corrections’, and route/itinerary planning. The 540S supports multisegment routing, to help you plan a trip with multiple intermediate waypoints. The ‘Help me’ Menu provides you with selections for driving, phoning, or walking to help; provides you with your exact location; and comprises of a basic first- aid guide. 

You have a full series of “navigate to” options. The 540S contains a generous 7 million POI database that you can search by category or by name. You are able to specify searches constrained to spots in the vicinity of your location, in a city, or in close proximity to your home, or(if you have an active route) POIs along your route or in the vicinity of a specific destination. 

Like most TomTom products, the XXL 540S includes IQ Routes, which can calculate routes and approximate times of arrival based on historical traffic data as opposed to on speed limits. The XXL 540S takes such variability into account in generating suggested routes. And even without a live traffic receiver, its travel- time estimates are pretty accurate. 

You can customize the status bar on the view with the data you’d like to see. The XXL 540S lacks boasts(such as a Bluetooth phone interface, a multimedia player, and built- in live traffic) that you might expect on a premium- priced GPS device; TomTom saves those includes for its high- end Go series of products. Nevertheless, the XXL 540S is upgradable to live traffic if you buy an optional RDS- TMC traffic receiver for$ 60; that price consists of a year’s subscription to traffic data, after which thedata costs$ 60 per year. 

Using the free, downloadable TomTom Home application(available for PC or Mac) , it is possible to maintain 540S up- to- date with the current firmware release, GPS quick- fix data, and community- based updates, and you can buy extra voices in addition to 12 months of updates. Share technology allows you to update road closures, name changes, street direction changes and POIs. You’ll be able to choose to share your updates with the TomTom community, and you can get more device from the community- supplied data. 

The one important draw of having GPS navigation software on your smartphone is that the phone is probably connected to a network that can give more info than just directions, however the screen is simply so tiny. TomTom knows this and just released its second Internet- connected GPS device, the 4. 3- inch Tom Tom XL 340S LIVE. This model uses AT& T as its data provider and can update the users on a whole range of info: fuel prices, weather, traffic levels, traffic incidents, and more. But there’s a small catch. 

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