[laffcarl]

I had to go to somewhere in deepest sw London at the weekend on a call out with a friend. He has a TomTom live about 6 months old, I was armed with my Hacked about Beta Labs Nokia Maps 3.08 on my N8.

Similar journey and live traffic info all around the M25, then into london, all along my device was constantly saying we would arrive a few minutes earlier, about 1 mile from destination the devices then started to show different routes, knowing my tourtured phone(always being abused and tested to the limits of breaking by me 'just so I can fix it') may of been suspect, I said to go with the TomTom....Which took us to a newish housing site and down to a road that was no longer there!

After him swearing a lot and me giggling he reset alternate route and off we went....It then for 10 minutes kept trying to take us around ever increasing sized blocks back to the no longer existing road, then we abandoned TomTom and went with my device, which led us out and back on the way to destination... accompanied by lots more of him swearing and rebooting of TomTom.

About 500 yards away from arriving TomTom chirped back up and said I know where to go now....Keeping one eye on both as we approached the turn my phone was saying go to, TomTom was saying go straight on, we ignored TomTom and turned the way Nokia Drive was saying, then 5 yards down the road we saw the the road we wanted and was there.

TomTom then embarrased itself further by not being able to find it's way out.

The maps on TomTom are ancient even when updated, they also want £20 for so called new maps every few months, then there is the data on speeding motorists it stores in databases and releases to the police (for so called use identifiing where accidents are likely to happen! yeah believe that)

So big 1-0 to Nokia there