I'm looking for a satnav for my mother and I'm interested in these usnits
but I'm puzzled by the diffences.

The specs look almost identical although the XL is marginally bigger. The
main difference is that the XL 2 comes with Tele Atlas software (which the
XL doesn't have) whilst the XL is "Traffic message channel ready" which I'm
guessing is to receive paid for traffic information.

I can't see that the latter would be too important for my mother (who would
be unlikely to subscribe to such a service) but I'm curious as to what the
Tele Atlas software adds.

Anyone got any experience of these units?

Spec (from Google) here:

XL

http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...&os=tech-specs

XL 2

http://www.google.co.uk/products/cat...&os=tech-specs

TIA

Tim

On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:57:26 -0000, "Tim Downie" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> I'm looking for a satnav for my mother and I'm interested in these usnits
> but I'm puzzled by the diffences.
>
> The specs look almost identical although the XL is marginally bigger. The
> main difference is that the XL 2 comes with Tele Atlas software (which the
> XL doesn't have) whilst the XL is "Traffic message channel ready" which I'm
> guessing is to receive paid for traffic information.

Forget the mention of Tele Atlas software, Tele Atlas is the mapping division
of TomTom and they don't do the software.

I believe the IQ 2nd Edition has their "simplified menu system" that lacks
certain TomTom functions and features that I find very important, such as
Itineraries and custom POIs.

Tony

Anthony R. Gold wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:57:26 -0000, "Tim Downie"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a satnav for my mother and I'm interested in these
>> usnits but I'm puzzled by the diffences.
>>
>> The specs look almost identical although the XL is marginally
>> bigger. The main difference is that the XL 2 comes with Tele Atlas
>> software (which the XL doesn't have) whilst the XL is "Traffic
>> message channel ready" which I'm guessing is to receive paid for
>> traffic information.
>
> Forget the mention of Tele Atlas software, Tele Atlas is the mapping
> division of TomTom and they don't do the software.
>
> I believe the IQ 2nd Edition has their "simplified menu system" that
> lacks certain TomTom functions and features that I find very
> important, such as Itineraries and custom POIs.
>
> Tony

Thanks Tony, that's useful to know.

Tim