 Excellent buy GPS |
| Review Date: November 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: S. Wildman, |
TomTom makes a good product that will make travel easier. If you haven't tried one, you're missing out. Use mine for a trip fron Ky, through Ohio, NY, Maine, Vermont, N.Carolina, and many other points between as well as 2 other vacations into Tennessee & South Carolina. I don't waste time on Maps anymore. Neither should you!
Enjoy. |
You Better Bring a Map!
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| Review Date: October 27, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Dustin M. Werstler, Fall River, MA USA |
This is a nicely sized unit with a decent feature set for its price point. But that's where the honeymoon ends.
If you buy one of these (or any Tom Tom from my extensive experience) you had better own a computer. To maintain the GPS' ability to lock onto satellites without making it halfway to your destination first you have to regularly update the GPS through connection to Tom Tom's server with the Tom Tom Home software.
Additionally, the unit is sluggish when informing you of upcoming turns until it's almost too late to make the turn.
What really turned me off on this was a recent trip from Ohio to Massachusetts. As I was approaching NJ (about 3/4 of the way across PA) the GPS completely quit on me. It then kicked back in as I was going across the NY Thruway. At that point, rather than directing me to continue straight (I had done the trip before and knew which way to go) the GPS directed me to exit into a side part of New York City at two in the morning!
I had the unit replaced by Tom Tom when I got home but the replacement unit was about as unreliable.
After several back-and-forths with Tom Tom over this unit they replaced it with a Tom Tom GO 730. |
Avoid
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| Review Date: October 25, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Lester R. Laforce, USA |
| I bought a refurbished unit. These are covered by a 6 months manufactures warranty (as opposed to 1 yr for factory fresh units). The unit's screen froze after 7 months. I spend about an hour on the phone with TomTom technical service. They really tried to help (by directing me to use TomTom Home from my own computer to update and replace the unit's application and map files). In end they had me re-format the unit's flash drive. But it was to no avail, it seems the units flash drive has some bad sectors, no amount if re-formatting, file updating and replacement can overcome that defect. |
Worked well for trip to California
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| Review Date: October 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: John A. Heath, Boulder, CO |
Bought this for $82 (re-furbished) vs renting one with the rental car for $50. It's a small screen, but I prefer the small footprint and stashed it a compartment under the rental car radio.
Note: It's not the best at predicting the most optimal routes. I tested it out in my local area, and it failed to find the quickest route from my house in Lafayette, CO to my Mother's in Boulder. It chose 3 other routes, which are longer in time and distance, before I used the choose route via point on map feature, which still was hard to do. It also routed me in a circle in Pacific Heights/Santa Monica CA, but I eventually made it to the airport with time to spare.
For the most part, regarding traveling in unknown territory, the Tom Tom got me where I needed to be. Who cares it took a little longer than the locals know how to do.
Entering your routes is pretty straightforward if you have worked with GPS devices before. I entered in all the addresses I needed for my trip into my favorites before the trip, found the hotel, wedding, and airport just fine. Though there were some hitches when I first turned it on in California. It still thought I was in front of my house in Colorado. When I chose my route to the hotel, it plotted a route from my house in CO instead of from Avis at LAX airport. I think I got around this by first choosing "clear route", then it reset to california, and I re-entered the hotel route. It did this a couple more times, in cali and when I returned to colorado. So some jinki-ness with it. Computer illiterate people, might get pretty bent out of shape with this as you have to outsmart the computer(gps) to get it to do the right thing.
Also beware Tom Tom really wants to make more money off you selling you newer maps, voices, etc. And as other reviewers have noted, you won't get the guaranteed newest map with this device as it is an older re-furbished model and won't qualify for the 30-Day purchase window they require. It is like $50+ to upgrade to newer maps. But really, how many people really need the newest most accurate maps? Unless they are traveling to a newly built neighborhood/development.
Anyway, I'm glad I bought it at the re-furbished discount price, mostly because of the price. Refurbished device worked well enough. No regrets. It served it's purpose. One more vacation and the investment is paid off. |
Tom Tom Gps Factory Refurbished
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| Review Date: September 3, 2009 |
| Reviewer: J. Crew Chick, Peoria |
I bought my gps about a month ago. I haven't had any "big" problems and I'm actually amazingly
happy with how it functions. When you get it, be mindful that your map versions are going to be
about 3-4 editions out of date. But I used map-share to upload corrections and that is working
out just fine. I was a little hesitant because I was nervous it was a refurbished product, but
I'm really happy with the product and it wasn't a bad buy for the price. I would recommend this
gps to anyone who needs help with directions. Buy it, you'll love it. I do. |
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