Tag: TomTom

  • Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Review

    Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE Review

    This review was made possible with the generous support of Pop Radiator! This weekend I had the opportunity to play with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 with LTE. It’s a great Android Honeycomb tablet with connectivity every where you go thanks to the LTE radio. I only had the tablet for the weekend, and quite…

  • TomTom Via 1435 TM review

    TomTom Via 1435 TM review

    This boxing day I headed out for a bit of toy shopping in preparation for our trip out of the country so we could find cool things to do in Costa Rica without getting lost. It has been long time since I’ve been out on Boxing Day, shopping on-line is so much more convenient. I…

  • Happy Holidays from The Dads

    Happy Holidays from The Dads

    Those in the know understand the draw of the East End of Long Island. The Hamptons, sitting on the South Fork of the island, are a group of hamlets, villages and towns lying along the Atlantic Ocean. The area is a perpetual playground for the rich and famous, and for city dwellers who appreciate a…

  • TomTom iPhone app vs Garmin nüvi (rental car edition)

    It feels like yesterday that I wrote the TomTom Go 720 vs Garmin nüvi 255 article (http://www.2fatdads.com/2009/06/tomtom-go-720-vs-garmin-nuvi-255/). Our editor JohnnyCanuck has been hounding me to come up with a follow up article. I’ve left a few on the shelf, waiting for a more current spin. As life would have it, I’ve been traveling a lot…

  • DadCast Episode 23 • The Year of the Tablet

    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… With the recent announcement of all the new tablet devices, we try to break down the differences and search for a way to fit them into our lives. Steve and Francois review the Apple TV and Netflix service, Steve gets grilled about his Kindle and the…

  • DadCast Episode 19 – Don’t Mention The A Word

    Nearly Live From The Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… It’s our third season and boy are we pumped, we’re laying it down so hard this year, or whatever it is I’m doing in this picture. So please join us for our first full show of the new season and our summer round up and of…

  • I Just Need Need Your Address -via XKCD

    xkcd: I Don’t Want Directions: “Sadly this happens to us far more often than we would like it. “ Also this should give Steve’s TomTom Go 720 review a new set of legs for another 6 months.

  • Jamais Deux Sans Trois

    “Jamais Deux Sans Trois” is a french expression meaning that events always happen in threes. And usually it’s associated with bad luck. And of course this perfectly sums up the past couple  of weeks worth of tech disasters. It pretty much all started when I went on a cross-country ski trip a few weeks back.…

  • DadCast Episode 13 – Unlucky For Some

    Nearly Live from the Wendyhouse Studios of Valois Bay… So I’m not the only one having a bad week… Join us this week as we revisit a few of our favourite issues like Steph’s crappy HP phone, my busted up GPS  unit and the joys of traveling by air. Dads on this week’s call: François…

  • TomTom Go 720 vs Garmin nüvi 255

    Time for toy shopping. I’ve been looking into buying a GPS for awhile. My first instinct was to look into what Garmin had to offer. Why Garmin? Well I actually couldn’t find anyone who owned a TomTom to ask them about their experience. So off to the big box electronic store. We were going on…