TomTom GO 520 With UK & Ireland Mapping

January 12, 2008 | By Doug In kitchen appliance |

TomTom GO 520 With UK & Ireland Mapping
TomTom GO 520, introducing a new era in car navigation. Elegant, slim, pocketable design - perfect fit for your car and your pocket.
GO 520 takes everything that has made TomTom the world leader in portable navigation and builds on it. Perfectly engineered, and with a range of enhancements to every aspect of your navigation experience.
The smartest navigator is also the easiest
TomTom has a reputation for the most user-friendly and efficient navigation devices. And the GO 520 is no exception. A range of useful and also fun new features all benefit from the latest version of an award-winning intuitive user interface that makes the smartest TomTom technology ease to use
Easier on the eye: a 4.3″ widescreen improves your view of where you are, and makes entering instructions easier and quicker
Better communicator: text-to-speech means your device can announce street names, as well as sms and traffic messages. Giving you easier guidance and allowing you to focus better on the road ahead
Better listener: speech recognition lets you tell your device where to go, instead of typing it on screen
Better view day and night: light sensor gives automatic brightness control
Latest mapping: preloaded internal memory containing maps of United Kingdom & Ireland provided by TeleAtlas.
Speech Recognition:

Speaking an address, to tell your device where to take you, is much easier than typing. TomTom GO 520 understands the pronunciation of city and street names.

You can also answer questions while driving, so you can keep your eyes on the road with the combination of text-to-speech and speech recognition technology. For example:
Your GO 520 asks:
“Traffic delay now 12 minutes; shall I try to optimize?”
“A new text message was received; shall I read it aloud?”
and you just reply “Yes” or “No”

Best Navigation
At the heart of the TomTom GO 520 is its navigation performance:
High sensitivity GPS chipset gives you the best positioning

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Customer Review: An worthwhile upgrade.
This new design has all of the great feature you expect from TomTom but coupled with a more usable mounting system and a great widescreen display. Both myself and my wife spent a large amount of time investigating the various models on the market and found the features and ease of use of the TomTom Go 520/720 were clearly the best available. Coupled with the iPod cable I can now use both my TomTom and iPod through my car radio and not have difficulty hearing instructions over the music. On the downside my Mobile phone, an orange SPV3100, does not want to work with the hands free option provided; this is a bit of a disappointment to an otherwise perfect solution.

Customer Review: Its great - but a word of warning !!!
I have just bought this after owning a Garmin sat nav. It is clearly a top sat nav, the vioice recognision is very good, speed top etc. Loads of fuctions and fun. The word of warning is related to the hands free compatibility. I am talking with tom tom customer service about this right now, i have a SE W8010i, which seems to work fine with the GO 520, message reading, phone book transfur, receiving and making calls via the screen, its the buzzing i get (and the other people get) when making a call. Tom tom have said, the phone isnt compatable so there is no support for this problem. If you look at their compatible list for the GO 520, there are only 3 manufactures that have fully compatable phones - so im not sure their claim this unit can be used as a hands free phone unit is really fair - you can check the compatibility at www.tomtom.com/phones

I would recommend you do - hay, other than that, its a top toy to have.

Martin

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