TomTom GO 920 Review Now Available

rugrat2 · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 12:10 am Post subject:

Great review Darren, didn't see anything about the voice navigation though.. Very Happy

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EddyDC · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 150

After reading this review I'm still a bit confused if the TMC problems are purely related to the TomTom devices or the TMC services in the UK.
How do other PND brands perform TMC wise in the UK?

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:55 am Post subject: Re: TMC

Infama · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Thanks for your efforts again Darren.

It is much appreciated.

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

EddyDC · Regular Visitor Joined: Oct 04, 2007 Posts: 150

TomTom is known for capturing TMC signal very badly, that's why I was wondering if it was fixed or not and one could use it in countries (I'm from Belgium) where the signal should be better

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 10:50 am Post subject:

To be fair, yes the antenna is far from the best but it's no worse than any of the bits of string supplied by others such as Navman, Navigon, ViaMichelin etc.
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MaFt · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject:

Trevor1234 · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Darren
Thanks for an interesting and well laid out review. I have been toying with the idea of changing from a TT5 navigator to one of the Go series and this model looks as if it would fit the part.

However, I would like to know what you think of the internal speaker. I drive a Transit and a decent speaker volume is important. So how would you describe the speaker? Good, poor etc.
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Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject:

Trevor1234 · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 3:56 pm Post subject:

Hi Darren
Thanks for answering my speaker query. Back in the old days one had to ask the Salesman questions before making an expensive purchase and very often the Salesman knew less than the prospective customer.

Yes, the GPS World Forum is of great help to we mere mortals.
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Tomtom Go 720.
Navcore 9.510
Central and Western Europe v855.2884
GPS World Traffic cameras
Home 2.7
iPhone 3G

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject:

Glad we could help. I accidentally slid the volume slider to full the other day and when the speed camera warning was announced it scared the cr*p out of me!
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Trevor1234 · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Hi Darren
I know that you gave great emphasis on backing up the 920 and quite rightly so too. Now, I don’t want to go off subject but there is one area where PDA users score over ‘Go’ users and that is that PDA users can back up to their device and ‘Go’ users can only back up to a PC.

I’m only mentioning the subject because I’m thing of changing from TT5 to the ‘Go’.
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Tomtom Go 720.
Navcore 9.510
Central and Western Europe v855.2884
GPS World Traffic cameras
Home 2.7
iPhone 3G

Darren · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

True but with a PocketPC there were more compelling reasons to have a backup to hand out in the field. In my experience the GO only has issues during firmware updates, installation of other files etc and this is invariably done at home so not such an issue.
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Infama · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

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