Fantastic Navigation with TomTom 920T

Advantages: fm transmssion, bluetooth with remote, voice recognition, music player and image viewer
Disadvantages: No maps for the whole world, no maps for sea navigation.

...Fantastic product which is great for all types of journeys. The 'advanced planning' also allows one to browse a map of the route before the journey begins and the image viewer and mp3 player can keep one entertained on the jourmeys. The passenger can also operate the device using the bluetooth remote. The traffic receiver, with lifetime subscription to traffic updates, is useful. An FM transmitter is also featured, which can be used to broadcast music to the car stereo. Maps of europe, USA and Canada are fantastic for going abroad. The fast processor means that if you deviate from the prefixed route, an alternative route is calculated straight away. Voice recognition allows the user to speak the destination, rather than type it in. Bluetooth connectivity allows the user to use their bluetooth-enabled phone wirelessly. The TomTom...

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Review of TomTom GO 920T

The drive of your life?!

Advantages: Text to speech
Disadvantages: Nothing!

...The TOMTOM GO 920T is an essential for people who travel both short distances and long distances in the car. I paid £353 for this beauty. I'm usually very wary, on what Im purchasing if its in the hundreds range as I want a good quality product if im going to splash out. I feel very safe buying tomtom product however as it has a very good reputation efficient navigation devices. And the GO 920T is no exception. What I love about this perticular tomtom is the 4.3" widescreen which helps improve what you are seeing and also i dont struggle to type the destination i am wanting to go to. Its an excellent communicator It lets you have text-to-speech which means the tomtom can announce street names, as well as sms and traffic messages. Which means you can focus more on driving as the tomtom does everyhting for you. One of my...

Sarahhhx 30.12.2007 · Read review
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TomTom GO 520

Advantages: Easy to use, large screen
Disadvantages: Traffic alerts, recognition of speed limits

...The TomTom Go 520 has a good size screen and is very easy to use. Its packed with features and my favourite is the bluetooth connection to your mobile, even allowing the extraction of numbers contained within your phone book (its handy to note you can duplicate your phone book onto the TomTom, meaning a back up of your phone contacts). When making a call the sound quality is pretty good. The navigation is easy to use and I have had no problem with GPS signal (unlike my previous sat nav). It identifies safety cameras and also alerts you if you are breaking the speed limit, however this feature is also the only drawback I have found. Occasionally it will get the speed limit you are in wrong (the other day I was on a dual carriage and it instead the speed limit was 30m.p.h.). It comes with an RDS reciever for traffic alerts, although...

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Review of TomTom GO 520

If Apple made sat navs they would have made this

Advantages: Intuative, good display, easy to use, Great design and interface
Disadvantages: Price

...We where of to the States and Canada, and wanted a sat nav for the 3 weeks fro our 100 mile trek, to hire one with our rental car was going to cost in the region of £150 so we decided to buy one instead, we bought it for just £285 on line from Halfords, and it has been brilliant. All the world maps are preinstalled, we told the machine before we left the uk the destinations we where going to friends and families address and logged them as recent destinations, we did this as we knew that when we arrived we would be tired and not really be wanting to try and figure out programmming the device when we where concentrating on driving on the wrong side of the road in Usa Friday night rush hour round Seattle... I don't recommned it. But the tom tom without a glitch 10 seconds after switching on and selecting usa it had located where we where...

maclinks 09.09.2008 · Read review
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Get up and Go with the Tomtom GO 500

Advantages: Easy to update, user friendly, full postcode search, bluetooth, hands free
Disadvantages: occasional 'dead' moments, occasional strange routes

...I bought the Tomtom Go 500 the week it came out. At this point Satnavs were a luxury rather than an everyday item that most cars seem to posess these days. I had decided on Tomtom based on the fact that they seems to have good reviews of their previous models and they were a lot cheaper than the competition, though at £469 I still wouldnt call it cheap. --Whats in the box -- On opening the box, once you have delved deep enough to get past the various manuals, you will come to the main tomtom unit. the mounting cradle which will fix the tomtom to your windscreen, a 256mb SD card pre installed with software and maps, a mains adaptor with British and European plugs, an in car charger, a wallet to put the tomtom in when not in use, a USB cable to connect to your PC and some screen wipes. In order to get up and running, you only...

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Review of TomTom GO 500

TomTom To the Rescue

Advantages: Easy to use, better than an A-Z
Disadvantages: Bit expensive, battery is not great

..., the TomTom also informs you if you are approaching a speed camera. This is normally clearly shown on the TomTom by a camera picture on the top left hand corner of the screen which also shows what the actual limit is followed by a sound. This is very handy at times when you may be going faster than you should. These cameras can also be updated but for this the TomTom must be connected to a mobile phone. The 520 also has a "Jukebox" feature on it. This means that the 520 can also become a music player. This is done by connecting the computer up to a PC at home and then transferring files onto it by simply dragging and dropping files onto the TomTom. There isn't much free memory on the TomTom itself but you can by a memory card which will increase the memory to up to 2GB which is a fair whack. The way it plays in the car is that it broadcasts...

mynameisrui 28.07.2008 (29.07.2008) · Read review
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Review of TomTom GO 520

TomTom really have the market sussed

Advantages: Great customisation features, big clear screen, easy to use
Disadvantages: Battery life, no wall charger included

...believe you can attach headphones to it so not to attract attention to yourself with the spoken instructions! This versions of the TomTom includes the latest maps of the UK & Ireland. You can get some TomTom's which have maps of Europe in them, but as I'm not planning on road trip around Europe anytime soon I went for the UK & Ireland version. Another big factor on choosing this one was the fact that the Europe edition was £80 more expensive at the time & after checking just now I noticed they haven't changed in price as I presumed they would have done either. The TomTom Go 520 has a 4.3" touch screen, this is bigger than a lot of the competition brands of sat nav & one more reason I went for the TomTom. The touch screen is very easy to use & extremely responsive. You don't need one of those special pens like I've seen with other sat...

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Go Away TomTom Go 910......GO AWAY!!!

Advantages: The Points of Interest Feature is Outstanding
Disadvantages: Too Heavy & Bulky, Maps need constantly updated, Touchscreen isn't user friendly , Doesn't re-route well

...was going. Which didn't help when your going to someones house. Sidenote: Can I also say the 3D versus 2D features make it a little difficult to see? I have next to perfect eyesight and the thing was like a labernyth of inconsequential streets and details. After my first-day-got-lost, fiasco, I simply chalked it up to myself not being well informed with the gadget itself. So, I spent several hours reading every bit I could about the 910. In reality , I could probably be the official Troubleshooter of this GPS syste for the TomTom company if they needed one. Fast Forward to the Next day..... I got LOST AGAIN......well sort-of. It's very good at keeping you in the "general area" of where you wish to go. When your wanting to go to a hospital though, you kinda need to...well....get to the flipping hospital. Instead, it took...

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Review of TomTom GO 910

Way to GO TomTom but...

Advantages: Screen Size, TMC, Bluetooth Hands free for Phone, Accessories
Disadvantages: Price, Extras at Price, Only GB and MRE, SD Card too Small, No Mp3 player facility

...discharge only to about half way through and charge again. Do not let it drain. You can always use another battery but you can't change it. You have to dismantle it and to put the icing on the cake you have to solder a few bits. WHHAATTT? I hear you saying. Well tough would say TomTom or just use it with the in-car charger from then on. Nice one guys?.Maybe Market Garden wasn't a good idea after all POI To put it mildly the ones that TomTom comes with are rubbish. Well apart from the free fixed cameras one which is good to have. In your face Road Angel! To the rescue?www.poihandler.com which should be itched on the skin of every Sat Nav owner: It has everything! From Museums and Village libraries to Strip Joints and Brothels (I am not kidding). Just download the ones you want and bang them into the maps folder and way you go...

Nick_Endeavour 29.12.2006 (30.12.2006) · Read review
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Review of TomTom GO 510

TomTom Go910 The best GPS on the market

Advantages: fast, accurate, great support, tons of worthwhile features
Disadvantages: bit ugly and bulky

...I ended up getting the TomTom 910 as a result of a crap experience with the Navman 720. Best mistake I ever made! The TomTom was recommended to me by several people but I wentmy own way and bought the Navman 720. I like the looks of it and the inbuilt camera. I had nothing but problems. In the end, the company I bought it from offered me the pick of the GPS systems they sold - after much research I chose the 910. Whereas the Navman would take upto 3 or 4 minutes to get a full signal where we live, the 910 picks up its signal within a minute. It's ability to say road numbers and street names is very useful but using this means you can't use te many available celebrity voices. I would love to try them but like the usefulness of the computerized voice too much. Another added feature is its bluetooth interaction with your phone. No...

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