TomTom Via 280 (page 4 of 4)

Having owned the original Tom Tom for about 6 years with no worries, the 280 was a replacement and just kept dying, I kept having to plug it into my computer, it would not last more than 5 minutes in any car we used. Today I took it back to JB and they replaced it with a NAVMAN. The lady next to me had the same issues with the Tom Tom and was getting hers replaced as well. The salesman said the Tom Tom was once the leader however, they appear to have more problems with them which is sad, the original Tom tom was a great machine, the new 280 is a disaster.
light and big screen
would only last 5 minutes, had to keep charging it on the computer as it wouldnt charge through the cigarette lighter device.

I purchased this GPS unit almost 3 months ago - it's the best one of three that I've owned (others were Navman and Garmin) by 'a mile', and is a truly excellent product. Having read many negative product reviews on the Via 280 prior to purchase, I was admittedly a little reluctant to proceed to purchase. However, the positive reviews on this product made me wonder about the motive of many of the negative reviewers, and I decided to proceed. Having had no problems at all setting it up (followed the very clear instructions properly), I have ha...

I recently got this Tomtom via 280 and it is reallly good and we made a trip and I made all type of testing routing, blue tooth, reception and recalculation every thing awas good and happy about the procuct so I am recomanding the product..Good product and has free life time option I received the activation code within 2 days.
Clear 3 d view to avoid confusion on lane change and during the merge
so far none

purchased this unit today to replace my old 2008 model Tom Tom One XL which finally gave up the ghost!
just wanted a basic unit with lifetime free maps and this fitted my requirements.

Had a little bother working out the correct use of the mount which ended up being really easy once I sorted out the correct alignment. Wow it's pretty advanced since the 2008 XL. Contary to other reviews it all works a treat. I love the smartphone style keyboard and the Voice commands work a treat.

Probably don't intend using the bluetooth as I already h...

Keeps freeing and needs resetting all the time its done this from new, have lots of trouble getting an address into it, it came with free map updates but tom tom's web site wont reconise the right model and wants you to pay for them
its 6 weeks old hardly used as it dont work properly
Now has frozen and wont reset
I would not recommend this to anybody at all
It was money well wasted

TomTom gave this product to me to use and I'm real glad I didn't pay for it.

It is clearly not ready for the market and the MyTomTom support site, which needs to be accessed to get updates, is one of the most user unfriendly web sites ever designed. You can not access the support web site from the TomTom dashboard on your computer and the unit requires a crash re-boot to successfully download updates.

According to TomTom each unit you own must be registered with it's own separate email address or else you will over-write the data on oth...

Bought this three days back. Still not satisfied. Does not connect to computer to computer yet. Power saver options does not work as they should. Can't update maps. Some time does not start immediately. Good value for 150.you don't get directions in the form of north south east or west.
Good value at155.screen instruction, safety camera warnings good an clear.
Does not connect to computer. Some time switch on button does not work promptly. Batter saving function does not work as it should.still don't know how to update maps.