What does this mean?Pros & Cons
Pros
The screen is small but it has good resolution and doesn't degrade when you zoom in. Navigating the ui (menus and such) involves pinching, zooming and tapping. The battery life is really good.
Tomtom has hands free calling, it automatically displays and reads your texts and has voice commands a bit like siri. It shows all my phone contacts okay and works with google assistant and the ios equivalent. My only issue with it is that it won’t bl... Read More
Tomtom go essential sat nav is my first ever sat nav. Syncs up via bluetooth or with my mobile data instantly, stays connected for the whole journey. Love the phone app to input your destination send it to the satnav easy as that. Very good menu for i... Read More
Speed camera alerts seem to work and six months of updates included (again via wifi) all i need now is to get a case to keep it in when not attached to the dashboard. I like the speed cam monitoring and the display of the current limit - i live in an ... Read More
Tomtom is omnipotent when it comes to rush hour traffic. Moores law of computing still applies. We rely on machines to do the thinking for us.
Cons
Have had inconsistent and unreliable wifi connection. There is a rather disingenuous message from support that one should check one's firewalls etc. I find this rather dishonest.
No success with bluetooth at all. Support is less use than a chocolate teapot. All the time with tom toms the cable lets it down.
Highlights
Quality
This is high quality tomtom it is very accurate variety of route options for your destination
Prob a bit expensive and the 3d seems to turn itself off and on at will
But with the design and with the ui limitations of a smart phone
More detailed guidelines would have been helpful especially with the need to charge up first the need to purchase a usb plug an... Read More
Competitiveness
It seems that tomtom have removed several features that used to be included in midrange units and you have to now either pay ex... Read More
Whilst it has the potential to save more time on longer drives literally 1020 mins minutes is realistic off a 12hr trip
I can understand why apps are taking over the satnav market
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Difficult at first to enable bluetooth
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Firstly let me say that i have had many tomtom satnavs in my driving career around 6 i think and this is actually the worst
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It seems that tomtom have removed several features that used to be included in midrange units and you have to now either pay extra to get them they are only available on highend units or they dont offer them at all
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I only purchased this because the satnav which came with my new car is so poor as to be virtually useless
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This is good for routing and ease of use but the symbols such as road speed limits are so small that anyone over 60 would struggle to read them
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I can understand why apps are taking over the satnav market
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Like how far to the nearest petrol on the sidebar
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Not intuitive about when you have entered the address and are ready to press go to drive
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