Dont believe those one star reviews - old iphone 4s and cheapskates to boot
If you had an iphone 4 and the TomTom Car Kit (which has the "real" GPS chip and yes it costs $100), it works 100% of the time with out fail and is perfectly accurate. Spent 3 weeks top to bottom in Italy without error and no delays. But if you are a cheap scap without the Car Kit, it relys on the telephone towers and because the iphone 4 processor is sooooo sloooow if you loose the tower it can take a long time for the cheap GPS chip in the iphone to find itself. The iphone 5 with much faster processsor is not prone to this. However the iphone 5 does not fit the CarKit and requires a slight mod of the CarKit to attach the phone and utilize the "Real GPS chip" and bluetooth feature. I have done this with my new phone and it works perfectly. Went from San Jose to Palm Springs to San Diego and back without error.
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TomTom Western Europe, v1.14