kinematic
July 11th, 2010, 02:09 PM
A few days ago I bought a TomTom Start2 regional (Benelux in my case) and I have to say it's a great piece of kit. I did the initial so called "cold fix" (the first time you start it up and it aquires a fix) indoors. This way the unit learns how to get the best fix under difficult positions and subsequent outdoors fixes will be breeze. The UI is easy and it gets me from A to B via the fastest route. Points scored for the hardware. The software however (TomTom Home) is not so great because it only runs on Windows as we all know. I've had to install Win XP in VBox just to be able to update the device wich is ridiculus. It's just a simple data manipulation program wich should be easy to port to Linux. I've even offered my help free of charge to help port it but they don't seem interested. It's a shame really since they use the Linux kernel but don't want to give anything in return to the open source community.
OK, that was my little rant :p
OK, that was my little rant :p