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The real value of this is the Go Live traffic service which works very well for maintaining the best route, mid-journey. This function can save hours of traffic jams and missed appointments. Go Live and map updates are an annual subscription service that costs £50+ to renew. I've had Tomtom devices for a number of years and soon realised, to my cost, not to follow the things blindly. Do look at the map view of the planned route to check the destination and journey time are what you'd expect. In the first few days of using this one I set 'navigate to' 'recent destination' as I needed to visit an address I'd been to two days earlier, a simple enough request. The expected 50 mile, 1h 10m trip was now 150+ miles and 3h 30m so I imagined a massive hold up and huge detour. I almost abandoned the journey but went indoors and checked the AA traffic site and then the Tomtom site to find no reported hold ups. Reset the journey on the Tomtom device and set it manually to find it recalculate the expected route and time. As for the other features, I've not tried on this device but my last Go Live device tried to take me into the middle of a sprawling housing estate for the 'cheapest fuel nearby.' The hands free function was very poor, music playback was transistor radio like. Google search is hit and miss, if it can connect to Tomtom server. To summarize, if your job etc. requires travelling distances on a regular basis, then it will pay for itself in a short time. Otherwise Google maps on a smart phone costs nothing and does an adequate navigation job. I probably would recommend to a friend but with reservations.Read full review
one of the only reasons i went for the tomtom go live 1000 is because i spend a lot of time on the road, with the advantage of having live trafic updates serves me well, excellent feature to have if there is a quicker way to get to your destination it will inform you, the other good thing is you can use it while you are driving cos you can talk to it and give it instuction of what you want to do, connects to your mobile phone, google search for if you want to find somthing like a b&q near to your location and it gives you the option to ring them through the unit if you have it connected to your mobile the only problem i had with my unit was the update i got wasn't installed correctly and caused me a little hastle hence the 4/5, but having contacted tomtom the gave me clear instuction of was i should do to get the problem sorted i would give them 10/10 for there swift responce anyone who speads alot of the time on the road this is the only unit to go for, i know it;s a bit more money, but for me it saves me stud in traffic so i can get more work done and earn more money, i would say the extra i have paid for it has been earnt in the first month of owning itRead full review
Very impressed with this Sat Nav device. Granted it's a stand alone gadget designed for one purpose but it does it very well. This was purchased following a recommendation and then borrowing a similar TomTom device from a work colleague . I found it to be far better at being a Sat Nav than the mobile phone app I used. All the usual pros, easy to use, well built etc. Cons it does take a little bit of time to connect to the "Live" network for traffic update and Weather / Google Search but that doesn't stop a quick boot time and availability to choose previous destinations.
Had my NavMan five years, told me how to get there (choice of male or female) on a simple, small no-frills screen. Time to upgrade, but not silly money, and this one regularly scored 10 out of 10 in reviews. It has a very pretty display, and I love the lane guidance display at junctions. Great range of sexy female voices, and my wife gets positively panty over Sean! Needless to say, we've got Sean! The info available 'Live' is excellent, though what the costs of map upgrades and 'Live' subscriptions will be when my free 12 months runs out, I hate to think! At least I have the option to upgrade, something my NavMan woefully lacked. The GPS calculates routes very quickly, latches onto sats in seconds and is generally super-efficient in operation. It tells me when I'm breaking the speed limit; it beeps at me regularly, though God knows why; it guides me round traffic jams, I'm told, though I've seen little evidence of that; and it asks me if I want the fastest, shortest or most eco-friendly route! And here's where it's dropped a star! Some of the routes it's taken me on have been plain bonkers! The fastest route is in the opposite direction, down a single track road barely wide enough for a bike, grass growing in the middle, with hair-pin bends every 10 yards, and farmers' gates to negotiate, is it? Maybe not! It could all be my fault for not telling it the right stuff! Sean could be really sick of this senile idiot whose grasp of of the 21st century resembles that of Charles Dickens trying to programme this unbelievably-super-intelligent-mega-instrument for an unbelievably-simple-please- don't-patronise-me route home. He could be punishing me! I bet Kathy (English, Irish, sexy-or-what) would just take me home by the shortest route, bless her! It is a complex piece of equipment and I don't pretend to have got to grips with the half of it in the couple of months I've had it. Maybe, another couple of months and I will regret withholding that final star.Read full review
I bought this sat nav due to the voice recognition as I generally drive alone and don't like fiddling with settings while driving and thought that would be a good solution. At home the voice commands worked fine, but when I went to use it while driving its wasn't co-operation. perhaps it was because I haven't got the hang of it. It does have useful journey information and is much louder than my last TomTom. The traffic alerts didn't pick up congestion but did show it on the route map, perhaps it was not heavy enough to warrant an alert. I haven't been able to trial it on motorway jams yet but i do think it would recommend alternative route if i came across one.