Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I have been using Tom Tom devices for about 7 or 8 years now, this is my third Tom Tom device. I have never liked the 3d view offered by GPS devices, I have always opted for using them in the 2d straight down, North up view. That is how I used my last two Tom Tom devices. This new device strips several of the most useful features away from North up 2d view. -You can't see the name of the street you are on or the next one you are turning onto. -The map will not "auto zoom" you must do this manually. -The cursor is placed in the middle of the screen, but the lower 1/5th of the screen is taken up by the status bar, so you lose a fair amount of map below your cursor. The cursor should be displayed a bit higher to compensate. -The unit is a touch screen and it is extremely slow in responding to touch. -The unit takes as much as 2 minutes to auto switch between day and night view. (this is really a pain when you get in the car in the morning and can't read the now black screen or at night you're blinded by the dazzlingly bright screen.) It used to take a second or two for the switch. -The unit is supposed to automatically leave the route summary and begin navigation after 10 seconds. Frequently I have to manually make it exit the route summary. All of the above features that I list as missing in this Tom Tom have all been present in the previous two units I owned. Another item is that directions on occasion have been ridiculously bad. In one case it wanted me to go 30 miles and 45 minutes out of my way to get to a destination that was only 2 miles away. One other thing, which has been a long time complaint of mine is that the device frequently refuses to see a stretch of road or highway as a single road. For example traveling from one end of MA to the other one Rt 90, the Mass Pike, it should show it as 90 miles or so to the next exit, however instead it breaks it up into chunks showing you exiting onto the highway you are already on. When you update a device you add features, you don't strip them away. Tom Tom needs to learn that.