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TomTom GO 730 Satellite Navigation System | |
Brand: TomTom EAN: 0636926020046 Label: TomTom Manufacturer: TomTom Model: 1CH7.053.00 Publisher: TomTom Release Date: May 01, 2008 Sales Rank: 1647 Studio: TomTom Accessories:
TomTom See more information on TomTom GO 730 Satellite Navigation System at Amazon UK or at Amazon.com Average Rating:  Rating:  - Inferior to older versionsWe purchased this recently as an upgrade from an original 500. What a joke! The voice is inferior to that of the original and far less clear. We used it for 24 hours and found that when using a mobile phone on blue tooth the tomtom crashed and had to be restarted. Would not have been so bad, but on crashing, it loses all of your settings and you then have to spend time going through all the menus again. It does look more attractive than the "Fat Navs", but the looks come at a cost. You have to plug it in manually and then attach to the base, a lot more fiddly than the originals which just clip to base and go. It also has an inferior speaker and battery. I would highly recommend that anyone wanting to purchase a tomtom should look at the 500 or 700 we have one of each and they are far superior. Luckily we were able to take our 730 back for a refund!! Rating:  - Fancy features but the basic is not workingTomtom gave us many new features in this new edition of their tomtom go device. However the most important aspects failed. A GPS device has to have up to date maps, however the maps used in this new TomTom are very flawed. I have been driving 30 times since I got my Tomtom and 5 times of those tomtom took me to the wrong address when I used the postcode. When I went to Wales it even took me 25 miles from the correct location. In London it has taken me to the wrong end of roads, once even a mile away from the real postcode. This is in my opinion the most important feature of any navigation device and Tomtom failed here. Also the Point of interests is working very badly. I have used the POI 10 times to find a petrol station on my route, and out of the 10 times 8 of the petrol stations in the Tomtom did not exist in the real world. I no longer trust the POI on tomtom and will use my goggle maps. The new IQ routing does not save any time, actually I compared with my old mobile version of Tomtom and it get me quicker to my destination. The traffic updates also don't provide a benefit and in most cases will work against you in the city. I was driving from south to north London last week, and tomtom changed my route as it said there was traffic. I thought cool. On the new route I got stuck in a 30 minutes traffic queue that Tomtom did not know about and when I finally started moving tomtom ended taking me all the back to my original ... Read More Rating: - TOMTOM 730 BATTERY LIFEBought the product 730t model ,I have battery failure problems,and I think other users have this problem Sent Tomtom back 3 weeks ago ,and still do not have a date for the repair to be completed by. Only bought it Mid June. If you require a tom tom that will never be on your dashboard,but away ,on repair leave,then the 730 is for you. Back to the paper maps then Rating:  - Map Share and share alikeQuick and clear route planning, the wide touch screen is very good. Have used it now for several journeys in Scotland and England and very impressed. The supplied female voice is very clear with good warnings of upcoming junctions. I've used the Go 730 on the M1, M4, M8, M9, M25 and certainly appreciated this model's upgraded junction advice. I was quite happy to use the 730 without seeing the screen, just listening to the instructions, which were loud enough to hear over road/engine noise, but the kids volume had to be turned down! If you take a wrong turn (or your local knowledge is better) it asks you to turn around. Should you ignore it, it very quickly comes up with route correction, updating distances and arrival time. As for the mapping. I'm a realist and live in a rural area. Most of the mapping systems on the net (Google et al) don't even spell my village correctly. So I bought this device with my eyes unblinkered, but very much interested in the Map Share facility where users can update road changes, location errors etc. Have input several corrections myself and watching with interest to see when they are implemented. Bluetooth/handsfree to my Samsung SGH-G600 works well. It takes your phonebook across and I found it straightforward to use. No issues with the windscreen mounting, the car charger or the computer docking station, but a plain old mains charger would have been a nice inclusion, especially at this price point. So one star dropped. ... Read More Rating: - waste of money.I recently purchased my first Sat Nav and after a bit of research I chose a Tomtom 730 Go as it had a few features that made it stand out from the rest, the main one being IQ routes technology. I decided to try it out round my local area to get used to it and quickly realised that I've wasted so much money on a feature that is utterly useless. Other people say that 50% of the time this feature comes up with a faster route, my experience after a month is that 100% of the time it finds the weirdest slowest back route ever imaginable. Instead of following main routes where there are no parked cars and constant traffic flow it suggests narrow streets with double parked cars to jinx in and out of while you wait to let oncoming traffic pass. Out of town is not much better, suggesting narrow windy B roads rather than more direct good quality uncongested A roads. I've now timed quite a number of local journeys and the IQ routes are always a lot slower than obvious routes. Also I have lost count of the amount of roads, roundabouts and junctions that I've found missing or wrong, some of which are around 6 years old and are marked on every other map that I possess, so much for latest updated maps due to the mapshare feature. The other feature that I thought might be useful was the advanced lane guidance, there are only a couple of roundabouts with four lanes of traffic in my local area but obviously not complicated enough for that feature to kick into action. All in all I wish I had bought an older ... Read More TomTom_GO_730_SatelliteTomTom GO 730 Satellite Navigation System | |
