Tom Tom 720 Go Sat Nav Reviews

Third Party Reviews for Tom Tom 720 Go Sat Nav

This is my first experience of using a satnav system 'in anger' and I am very, very impressed by the way the GO Tom Tom 720 works - it does what it says on the tin, and is decidedly superior to other satnav systems which I've encountered in friends' cars.

I have two quibbles only with the Tom Tom 720. I'm sure that the windscreen mounting device is fine for a lot of cars, but in mine (a Hyundai Tucson) it makes the device sit too away from the driver. It looks as though I'm going to have to spend another £20 or so on an alternative mounting system.

The other quibble is that (as far as I can see, and my search of the manual has drawn a blank) it operates exclusively in latitude and longitude. I cannot make it display positional information in the form of UK National Grid references. Normally, this makes no difference, but (without going into detail) one subsidiary reason I had for buying it was that I hoped I could use it, on occasions, outside the car to tell me my location. As far as that is concerned, it looks as though I shall be disappointed.

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I have also recently taken delivery of my TomTom Go 720 have had a Navman iCN 510 previously. In comparison with the Navman its light years ahead. It's so easy to use and with the new TomTom Home v2.0 software a doddle to sync up and use the additional features and functionalities available from TomTom. Thus far I have been extremely pleased with my new gadget.

I deliberately did not get the TomTom Go 720T becuase of all the issues related to the Traffic Master servive and I use may Motorola Pebble PAYG phone for the Plus services such as Traffic, Weather and Camera updates etc. which all work as stated on the tin and costs pence for the GPRS connection. My TomTom also sync's up perfectly with my Nokia 6230 work phone for handfree calling whilst driving and if you look at TomTom's mobile phone compatbility chart it clearly states what wiil and won't be supported.

My only gripe is that due to the fact my Discovery has the antenna for the radio is built into the rear window the FM transmitter, whilst works as described for MP3's and directions etc., is not powerful enough to cancel out all the background hiss. TomTom need to up the power a liitle bit here so as to completely over power any low frequencies on the chosen FM channel.

Other noticable but very very minor issues with the Tom Tom 720 are the auto switching from day to night modes is very sensitive and going from bright sunlight to shaded areas of tunnels switches the mode. This is not really a problem as it has a manual overide. Also the volume sensitivity to background noise, if activated, does not seem to make a huge difference, however this may be due to my own hearing difficulties.

I haven't had any problems with the supplied screen mount and plugging in the car charger as opposed to having it already connected to the mount is hardly a problem either and takes seconds. Actually I find it preferable as you don't have wires traing round your car whilst the unit is not in use, but the mounts left on the windscreen.

I did buy a Brodit mount for my Discovery which cost nearly £50 for the clip and mount - however where Brodit have chosen to put the clip and adapter is worse than useless as the steering wheel obscures 2/3's of the Go 720 screen. That was a waste of money - its probably better on other makes of cars though!

Other than that as I said earlier it does exactly what is says on the tin - and is a fabulous bit of kit which I would have no hesitation in recommending. I can't wait for the bluetooth remote control to be available to avoid all those annoying finger prints on the beautifully clear screen.

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