DriveSmarter

The TomTom 950 LIVE and 750 LIVE units were launched last year in Europe, but where are theye in Australia? Looking on the tomtom.com Australian website, they are listed there but without the LIVE functionality – why?

Well, it seems the differences between the x50 LIVE series and the Australian units mainly seem to be:

• - The lack of a RDS-TMC receiver active dock providing live traffic updates
• - The 1 month trial to LIVE Services in supported European countries, including a real-time connection to HD Traffic, Safety Alerts, Fuel prices, Local search with Google etc.
• - Eco driving routes (generates fuel-efficient driving routes)

We are particularly surprised at the lack of a RDS-TMC receiver as it is already supported in Australia on older units.  Even some users who have bought a TomTom 950 LIVE overseas and/or have bought a TomTom 950/750 locally cannot seem to get the traffic update functionality to work properly.  This indicates there is perhaps a problem with integrating the x50 LIVE units with the local SUNA traffic network.

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