TomTom ONE V3 Windscreen Holder + USB Car Charger

The product is just a disaster. The TomTom holder, as said by other reviewers, will keep the TomTom for a few minutes, rarely more than 15.

The charger is different from the picture (it's a "one piece" charger - from the picture looks a 2 piece charger, good to charge other devices just changing the cable). The charger has a short cable, and in my case broke after just 15 days. As useless as possible.

Even though I knew other reviewers had given this product a poor rating, I still bought it on the assumption that I could succeed where others had failed.

I couldn't. No matter how much a try, I cannot get the holder to stay attached to the screen for more than 20 minutes.

Totally useless - 1 star.

(Still can't figure out why TomTom aren't selling the same holder that came with my TomTom that did actually work.)

The windscreen sucker works up to now for me, but I keep the inside of the windscreen scrupulously clean (a fag, since black dust collects on it all the time), store the sucker in a polythene bag to keep dust off, and breathe on the sucker to moisten it with condensation. But it's ridiculous to expect it to work forever even so. What it needs is cheap spare suction cups and one spare included with each new windscreen mount. Who wants to wait for a replacement when the first one stops working? Having to buy a whole new mount and a charger each time is ridiculous and environmentally unfriendly. Moreover TomTom don't let on that meticulous cleanliness is vital.

I wish that satnav manufacturers would devise a mounting system that does not show thieves by a ring on the windscreen or some other clue that they should smash a window to see if the satnav is in the glove box.

It's hard to imagine car manufacturers installing a standard socket for loose satnavs, since they probably want to end up installing their own OEM versions and make money on those. But I find portable TomTom satnavs better on the whole than the satnav fitted in a recent Honda Civic. Separate satnavs can have a much shorter product cycle, and a map update on the Honda satnav cost more than my TomTom including its maps. What's more, the map update for the Honda did not stop it giving daft directions at times. The TomTom lives by my PC when not in use and is updated all the time for free, but updating the Honda satnav is much harder and ridiculously expensive.

TomTom provide great value for money, but the windscreen mount lets down an otherwise great product.