–May 8, 2008
TomTom’s 2008 730T brings their newest community-based navigation advancements together with their plug and play ease of use, rock-solid navigation, and sleek designs we’ve come to expect from them, along with a a TMC traffic receiver with a 1-year free subscription (that’s the “T” part in “730T”) For a couple of year’s now, TomTom’s been building a foundation for some powerful community-driven navigation features, and this is the year they really start to harness that power. They began by introducing with Map Share, which lets you instantly modify street names, street direction, and custom locations called points of interest (POIs) on your own device, then upload them to TomTom’s HOME network and download cha [Read More...]
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I have the 720. The 730 has only minor improvements once you update the 720…so I thought I would tell about one feature that is a problem… Maybe TomTom will fix this if they see that it drives away (no pun intended) potential customers.
The features and operation of the TomTom Go series are amazing… I think they are much better than Garmin or my built in volvo navtek system EXCEPT FOR ONE IMPORTANT FEATURE:
You can’t search with a street address (and state) only. You MUST have the town name or you won’t get a result. This is a problem in suburbs where every mile or so, there is a different town name…names that even the people that live there don’t know because they go by the Metro area name. If you don’t know the name of that small suburb, you are stuck. All the other makers allow you to put in the state and street name and then let you pick from a list of results from each jurisdiction.
They need to fix this. I cannot fathom why they would leave you out in the cold like this. If you use this, make sure you know in advance the town name or zip code or you are stuck.
TOMTOM… fix this problem!
I think the other reviews are being unfair. One because they didn’t get it with the correct map and another for voice features. As for the defective one, I think its just that. I haven’t had this product for long but, all in all, it wroks great.
Finds POI’s quick and reroutes you even quicker. I was taken wrong turns on purpose and within a second the 730 would find another way. The bluetoothe works pretty good, I can hear the caller perfect but the caller claims to hear me “a little distant”. The window mount is decent but short. It still has yet to fall (it has been a few days), I am uprading to a gooseneck because of the length.
I love the FM transmitter, WOW, no more CD’s, Ipod’s or radio. I am using a Sandisk SD card 2GB so I have enough music for any roadtrip. When the 730 is about to give a direction, the music automatically mutes so you can hear the unit loud and clear, I think its a great feature.
As for the 730(T), T for traffic, I think it is totally worthless unless you live in a big city like NY or LA, plus you need to upgrade your cell phone plan to include unlimited Data otherwise you’ll be charge through the roof. The 730T will keep your phone busy getting up to the minute info. The only reason why I got it was because the 730 and 730T where the same price, so I though - “what the heck, something for free”
For now I highly recommend the GO730, otherwise I would not have taken the time to write such a long review. If I do start having problems, I will definately update this review.
Not a bad GPS, has alot of features. However if I had to pay full price I’d look for something else. Since I got it for a very good deal with Amazon Christmas sale it was a good choice but with all things being equal I would think you’d be better off with a Garmin. I bought an SD card to give me more space to store MP3’s and it doesn’t work correctly. It won’t play and it lists the songs as being there twice (which they are not), so who knows what’s up with that… Support line closes too early.
The software that comes with it which says you can send map info from Google maps doesn’t work and many of the advanced features just plain don’t work from my Mac, that’s a bit disappointing. All and all it seems to do a pretty good job although it doesn’t get anywhere near the supposed 5 hours battery life… more like 2.5 hours at best… but that’s generally good for around town… The pluses are it is very customizable so you can put your own car on there as your icon if you like and it has the traffic feature and you can talk hands-free w/ your cell although people tell me it’s hard to hear me…
all in all it’s ok but not great but from what I read almost none of these different GPS’s are perfect…
so I’m giving it 3 stars…
enjoy it if you get one.