About a couple of weeks ago Frankie told me he decided to ditch his traditional 'FionFion' because he has found his new love 'TomTom'.
He tried to convince me, saying that:
- the traditional 'FionFion' has already been with him for more than 5 years and he wanted her to take a rest from now on;
- the information given by the traditional 'FionFion' will not be 100% accurate, in other word reliable;
- the traditional 'FionFion' may sometimes lose her signal thus show hesitation;
- the traditional 'FionFion' cannot do the latest information update;
- but most importantly, he cannot be angry with the traditional 'FionFion' if she gave the wrong information, and if he ever does that he will get scolded instead.
After listening to what he said, I agreed to let him have one.
So, last weekend we went to the nearest Halford store at Chiswick to get a new 'TomTom' as it was on promotion sales. In case you are wondering what a 'TomTom' is, it is basically a satellite navigator by the brand TomTom.
Frankie can't wait and decided to give it a test, so he opened up the packaging and read the instruction, and after a few manoeuvres we were ready to go.
We have also received the traffic receiver as part of the promotion deal. It will update you of the current traffic and redirect you to an alternative route if there is any traffic jam ahead.
The destination was Oriental City at Colindale where we will be having our lunch. So we just followed the arrow on the screen, as simple as that.
This navigator also has an in-built speaker to tell you exactly what to do at the next junction. You can choose either a female or male voice from different countries for their different accents. We, er.. rather Frankie chose the UK female speaker named Jane.
OK, let's see if TomTom is really that good. After a few minutes drive TomTom instructed us to turn right after a traffic light. Frankie and I cannot believe it because there was a clear sign on the traffic light post showing a no-right turn. We have to keep on going and only then turned to the next right. If we had followed the instruction given blindly we could either break the rules or worse be involved in an accident!
TomTom was quick enough to recalculate a new route since we didn't listen to her...
A minute later TomTom wanted us to go straight.... but this time there was no road in front! We had to make a right turn and then a left turn to join to the road otherwise we could have run up the kerb and into the bushes! See... the traditional 'FionFion' sure will not give you such dangerous instructions!
Ok, other than these two 'narrowly escaping experiences', TomTom was doing fine bringing us to our destination, on time. Something still worth buying I can say.
