TomTom Go 920T With European, USA and Canada Mapping

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Product Features:

• • TomTom GO 920T satellite navigation system with maps of Europe, US and Canada• Features voice address input, Map Share technology, traffic information, weather reports, built in FM transmitter, 4.3 inch touch sensitive LCD screen and Help Me

Customer Reviews:

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  2008-01-29
  By Roy Hutchinson, London
  The Sat Nav works well, but with this unit you are paying for more. Hands Free phone through the blue tooth connection works well but listeners tell me it is a bit noisy. The FM transmitter is very poor for playing mp3s, it does not handle other formats, through the car radio - to the extent it is not really usable, a great disappointment.
  
  
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  2008-03-04
  By The Happy Space Invader,
  First the good. The software works very well, and the TomTom Home 2.0 application you need to get the latest updates is now available for the Mac as well as the PC. I found TomTom to be absolutely indispensible while travelling East Coast USA for three weeks and that was my primary reason for buying it. Road maps in the USA are difficult to follow (as the scale can change drastically from page to page), and TomTom got me from New York to Harrisburg PA, right up to the Adirondacks and back to New York again with absolutely no problems whatsoever. From that point of view, it was money well spent.
  
  Here in the UK, the "traffic safety camera" alerts seem to work okay, but sometimes display the wrong speed limit or warn you of a camera that no longer exists. In fact TomTom can tell you your driving speed far more accurately than your car's speedometer and you'll be surprised how inaccurate the latter can be. TomTom can also tell you what the speed limit is for the particular road you're driving on (most roads), but again, the data is sometimes inaccurate, so don't rely on this. I suppose the golden rule is to watch the road signs, stick to just under the speed limit and ignore TomTom.
  
  So, already it's starting to look negative and I'm only just coming to the bad features. First of all, the UK maps are horribly out of date. Many town centre road systems are completely missing (e.g. the inner ring road in Sheffield that was built between 2004 and 2007) and there are far too many places where TomTom's advice could either get you in trouble with the police, or even cause a collision (e.g. telling you to turn right or u-turn where the road signs say this is forbidden). In city centres, you are far better off switching TomTom off completely (or clearing your route) and following the road signs.
  
  I have complained about this and TomTom wrote back saying that data takes a long time to collect, that they apparently send specially equipped vans around the country, but that they also rely on data from local councils. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions on that one.
  
  There is a map share system, but it's horribly clunky to use and you'll be uploading your changes in vain, as they will never materialise into anything concrete from TomTom. Sheffield's inner relief road was officially opened last year, but has in fact been in use for a year before that, and the complete plans have been available on the loacl council's website since 2004. This seems to have passed TomTom by, so all you have are a bunch of roads that simply don't exist any more and TomTom thinking you're driving off road.
  
  The traffic system is also flawed. Even when you do get updates, they are usually about 20 or 30 minutes too late. But the real problem is that these traffic updates are limited to Motorways and A roads so, even if you get a traffic update in time warning of heavy traffic, the alternative route proposed by TomTom will usually be far more heavily congested than the one you were originally following. So unless TomTom warns you that a road has actually been closed, you should ignore it. I commute from Leeds to Sheffield daily and find that I get far better advice from the local BBC radio stations.
  
  All in all, TomTom is great for any casual journeys of over 100 miles where you're not too bothered when you arrive. It's a especially good in the US, as they muck around with their roads a lot less than we do. For daily commutes or any journey in which you have to be somehwere at a certain time in the UK, forget TomTom... use a map and listen to the local radio stations.
  
  
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  2008-04-13
  By Samir Sinha, Hammersmith, London
  This is my first Sat Nav and it ticks all the right boxes. Setup is easy and simple, the software works the very first time (no repeated installs - atleast on my Windows XP laptop). The GPS quick fix (via PC or laptop) is a really useful feature - it downloads the satellite positions for the next 7 days so that TomTom can lock on almost instantly to one or more of them. The GPS function itself is ultra-sensitive and very accurate. I've never been misled even once on London roads. The FM transmitter works very well with my Ford Mondeo - absolutely no issues here. The downside is that the windscreen mount is not too good and there's a little trick to fixing it so that it does not fall off - the TomTom Alternative mount should be instead provided as standard as its more reliable. Also bought a protective clear plastic cover on Amazon and a PDair Leather case on ebay. All in all - am happy with my purchase - despite the minor niggles.
  
  
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  2008-04-22
  By Steve Oddy, France
  Do not buy this product if you have a Mac as the support team only have Windows tools to fix problems. I bought a new map but after installing it the device is "unable to store settings: file access error". The only solution from TomTom is to plug the device into a Windows PC and run a Windows exe. So I'm stuck with a device that either won't work or works with an out-of-date map. AVOID.
  
  
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  2008-05-22
  By A. Poulter, UK
  I have had my Tom Tom 920 for a couple on weeks now. I am very impressed with the functions especially the speech input for addresses.
  However, be warned. The voice recognition software will only work on the maps for one continenant. ie If purchased in the UK it will work on the European maps, but not North America, likewise, if purchased from the US the voice recognition will work for those maps but not Europe. I have contacted Tom Tom customer services who gave me this information.
  They state that there is no fix and you won't find any mention of it on their web site.
  That said, if you are not too bothered by this you will not be dissappointed with the 920.
  If you want to add music to the unit you will need to buy an SD card as the internal memory is almost full with the maps etc. You can then play the music through the car stereo system.