The TomTom XXL 550 series comes with a 5.0” extra-wide touchscreen
Overview The TomTom XXL 550 series comes with a 5.0” extra-wide touchscreen. allowing an expanded driving view and easier menu operation The ani-glare screen always gives an optimal view, even in direct sunlight. Preloaded with maps of the US, Canada and Mexico and a bundle of features make this TomTom navigation unit worth exploring. The Tom Tom XXL 550 comes in four configurations. The 550, the 550T, the 550M and the 550TM. They all have the same basic features with the following exceptions.The TomTom XXL 550T comes with lifetime traffic while the TomTom XXL 550M comes with lifetime map updates and, you guessed it, the TomTom XXL 550TM comes with both lifetime maps and traffic updates. Features Never Miss Your Turn Haver you ever been on the freeway only to find that you are in the wrong lane for the upcoming turn? Well no longer. TomTom provides extra clarity when navigating difficult junctions by showing you which lane to take, so you won’t miss your turn or have to make dangerous lane crossings. Photorealistic images and a pulsing green arrow indicate exactly which lane to use. Help Me! The “Where Am I?” feature allows you to contact the nearest emergency providers, such as police, fire stations and hospitals. Your TomTom XXL 550 will pinpoint your exact location so you may give it to the emergency service provider.. Text to Speech You can keep your eyes on the road while your TomTom XXL 550 announces turn-by-turn directions, including the name of the street on which to turn in addition to announcing your destination when you arrive. Latest Map Guarantee When you start using your TomTom, if a newer map release is available you can download one complimentary update to your map within 30 days from the time you first start using your TomTom device. Latest Map Guarantee is available via TomTom HOME. Map Share™ On-Demand UpdatesEighteen percent of the nation's road information changes every year. With TomTom’s exclusive Map Share feature, you have the ability to update your own map instantly or download verified updates from other drivers. Update your TomTom daily or whenever you wish. QuickGPSfix™ Why wait? With QuickGPSfix™, TomTom locates your first GPS position in seconds so you can get on your way quickly. Spending more time stopped in traffic than actually moving? Traffic congestion has increased more than 50% in the past decade and an individual traveler will waste over 36 hours a year stuck in traffic, almost a week’s vacation. Now you can save money and avoid delays with TomTom Lifetime Traffic Updates included with the TomTom XXL 550T and the XXL 550TM for the useful life of your GPS device. As far as I’m concerned, just avoiding one tie-up would make the price of the GPS worth while. With the traffic receiver built right in, you will stay up to date on traffic conditions along your route. Available in 110 metropolitan areas in North America, TomTom Lifetime Traffic Updates will recalculate your travel time and suggest alternate routes. Plus, TomTom’s traffic provider owns the entire value chain from gathering to confirming to distributing the traffic data, resulting in better quality in your traffic broadcasts. Lifetime Map Updates* Roads change, but with Lifetime Map Updates your map will always be up to date. With the TomTom XXL 550M or the XXL 550TM you can start fresh every few months by downloading a new edition of the industry's most accurate map. New editions are issued four times per year. *You receive up to four non-transferable map data updates per year until the product’s useful life expires or TomTom no longer receives map updates from its suppliers, whichever is shorter. Details and terms at TomTom Legal. TomTom XXL 550 Series Specifications: Introduced: May 2010 What's in the Box: XXL 550 GPS Note: The state of Minnesota prohibits the installation of portable GPS units on the windshield of your vehicle. Owner Reviews Amazon By Peter L. Simons, July 30, 2010 It's worth mentioning that I virtually never write reviews. For me to do so I have to be either amazingly impressed or utterly disgusted. I purchased my Tomtom XXL at a local membership store. At first I was fairly impressed. I set it up in the parking lot, set my home location and said "take me home." It did so extremely well but then again I only live about five miles from there. Here's my gripe; the Tomtom has a lot of bells and whistles if you can figure out how to find/use them. Other things I felt should be on a $200+ device were not there. For instance the ability to save an itinerary to use again in the future is not available on this model. You can save destinations as favorites but that's not the same thing. Half the time I would try to scroll the map and ended up accidently taking myself out of the view and into something else. With the map zoomed out to get a feel for the route I would constantly find I had accidently inserted a Via Point I didn't want. Even if I had not selected Change Route, adding Via Points appears live at all times. Surely it would be easy enough to have an "on/off" tap point for Via Points. When I spoke to their tech support they were very friendly but not much help. Comments like "this was much easier to do on the old one" did not bathe me in waves of encouragement. The PDF that was supposed to be for the product is actually for another model with "similar" features. Trust me similar is a stretch. Other than for downloading updates the software interface for your PC is virtually worthless. Wouldn't you think it would be nice to be able to plan a route on their route planner and download it to the device. Nice but you can't do that. You can use their version of Mapquest which their own support told me is "hit and miss."One of their support people, a very nice and helpful person, admitted to having hand drawn a navigation sheet so she would know where to find things on the device. If she has to do that what chance do we have? Finding where they have buried options is an exercise in sheer frustration. They have taken a device with many worthwhile features and made them a nightmare to use. Other abilities that should be there are missing altogether. They should scrap this and start over. I returned the Tomtom to the store and bought the Garmin 255W which was $100 cheaper. Admittedly it has way less feature than the Tomtom, but at least what it has is easy to use. By hoosier_grad, July 10, 2010 I got TomTom550TM about two weeks ago. It replaced my TomTom Go 730 with 4.3" screen. This will be my 5th GPS device so far. I consider TomTom Go 730 a pretty modern GPS with a lot of good features, so I will review TomTom 550TM in comparison to that one. Let me start with the cons: And the pros: Owner Ratings Amazon TomTom XXL 550 13 Reviews TomTom XXL 550T 13 Reviews TomTom XXL 550TM 17 Reviews
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