[Paul Martin]

http://www.tomtom.com/products/maps...1&selector=true

"O2 Germany was far ahead of TomTom, when it launched its O2 Xda diamond last month which contains TomTom Navigator 7, a so far not officially announced TomTom version for Windows Mobile Professional devices. And while O2 gave one free city download with its TomTom Navigator 7, it was impossible to purchase any further maps from TomTom. The only way to expand the maps was a workaround. Now, TomTom finally released maps which are compatible to O2's used TomTom Navigator 7 and at the moment, TomTom offers two kind of map packs: TomTom Map of Western Europe v7.20 and TomTom Map of Eastern Europe v7.20"

 

 

If you have an O2 Xda Diamond, you can finally get around a little more than just the one free city that came with your TomTom Navigator 7 software, that is as long as you want to travel around Eastern or Western Europe.  Currently, there is a GBP 10 discount on each set; a Western Europe download will set you back GBP 49.95, while Eastern Europe is GBP 29.95.  TomTom Navigator 7 is not yet available as a separate purchase.

[Paul Martin]

http://www.tomtom.com/products/maps...1&selector=true

"O2 Germany was far ahead of TomTom, when it launched its O2 Xda diamond last month which contains TomTom Navigator 7, a so far not officially announced TomTom version for Windows Mobile Professional devices. And while O2 gave one free city download with its TomTom Navigator 7, it was impossible to purchase any further maps from TomTom. The only way to expand the maps was a workaround. Now, TomTom finally released maps which are compatible to O2's used TomTom Navigator 7 and at the moment, TomTom offers two kind of map packs: TomTom Map of Western Europe v7.20 and TomTom Map of Eastern Europe v7.20"

 

 

If you have an O2 Xda Diamond, you can finally get around a little more than just the one free city that came with your TomTom Navigator 7 software, that is as long as you want to travel around Eastern or Western Europe.  Currently, there is a GBP 10 discount on each set; a Western Europe download will set you back GBP 49.95, while Eastern Europe is GBP 29.95.  TomTom Navigator 7 is not yet available as a separate purchase.

[randalllewis]

Frankly, I don't understand Tom Tom's reluctance to sell its product. Before purchasing my Diamond in June I was using the Touch Cruise, another HTC device that is not officially on sale in the US. It came with Tom Tom installed (6, not 7) but it also included the one free map offer. I requested my part of the Puget Sound area in Washington State and the download worked fine and the program was pretty cool on the Cruise. At that time, the Tom Tom website wouldn't let me buy other US maps for the Cruise even though it gave me a US map for free. Tom Tom, like HTC, knows that these products are being sold outside of the target market. It can't cost that much to get whatever licenses might be required in order to get a jump on the competition in a future market.