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1 - Still on PAYG with very little to no data
2 - Don't know how to use apps on the phone (fear of new tech)
3 - They stick with what they know
4 - They think TomTom is superior (for every instance they think TomTom is, you will find another instance that GoogleMaps...and Waze, same company, is)
5 - They prefer a stand-alone unit
My dad is 1, 2, 3, 5 of those.
My motorcycle has a bluetooth connection to an App for satnav functionality. Thats a work in progress. It gives audible directions and shows upcoming turn information but doesn't (yet) support displaying the map. It will one day, though - the "dash" is a very large colour TFT screen. On my previous motorcycle, I had a Garmin satnav and I've ported that to the new bike as well. The one thing a Garmin or TomTom does well is lets you plan a nice riding route on the computer beforehand and then move it to your satnav for your ride.
FWIW, when I'm walking in the countryside, I use "OS Maps" - a £2/month service that lets me look at any 1:25000 and 1:50000 OS maps on the phone, follow routes I've planned before leaving home, use the GPS in the phone to see where I am and record the route I took. I wouldn't bother with a specialist GPS unit for walking or cycling any more. It's excellent.
For large vehicles the available apps aren't great so a stand alone sat nav is usually preferable although many truck drivers will use £40 Chinese truck sat navs rather than the £300 Tom Tom ( other makes are available) equivalent.
I'd prefer my sat nav screen to be bigger than my phone screen so that's a selling point of a stand alone version and they often have additional features built in these days. But yes it does seem like it is probably a shrinking market.
Then one day is started acting up and refused to find a satellite. I'd plumb in a route and it would just sit there looking for a satellite, sometimes for hours - I'd get about half hour from my destination on a long trip and it'd suddenly spring into life and tell me where to go.
Then it stopped looking for a satellite signal completely. I tried resetting it and restoring maps and factory settings etc but it would have none of it. TomTom's help pages were of no help so it looked like something had gone tits-up with the hardware.
After that I started using my iPhone for navigation and don't really see a need for a dedicated device for navigation now.
There were also a couple of questionable occasions where it would tell me weird rubbish, like the time I was driving to Newark along the A46 but the sat-nav was convinced I was driving through a ploughed field. On the return journey it told me to take a detour off the A46 and then after a few miles directed me to turn around and rejoin the A46 at the same point I left it!
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
Much like Cameras v Smart Phone Cameras - a dedicated unit can "handle" better than a phone - not in all cases all the time but quite often this is the case.
SmartPhones tend to have too much else going on - too many irrelevant / distracting notifications.
I find it much easier to see "which route is this system taking me on" when using dedicated GPS compared to SmartPhone especially when a "re-route" takes place.
According to TomTom, “Lifetime means the useful life of the device, i.e. the period of time TomTom supports your device with updates, services, content or accessories. A device will have reached the end of its life when none of these are available anymore.”
To me, Lifetime means the device still powers up when you turn it on.
My last car was a BMW and it had the upgraded Professional Sat Nav and it was superb ,really miss it.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
Bit of trading feedback here.
I appreciate they cannot support their kit forever more, but I wish they would drop the use of the term, I think it's misleading. I'd be happy if they said it was good for a specific period of time, 5 years, or something,