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4.5 stars
"TomTom has a real winner with the Go 910"
Pros: Intuitive, accurate and fast. Full of features. Big hard drive and long battery life.
Cons: A bit pricey. No voice-activated calling using Bluetooth. Only suction mount available.
Summary: I purchased my TomTom Go 910 at BestBuy before general release, expecting to see a few bugs. And indeed, the first unit I bought met those expectations. The windshield mount, which provides power to the unit through a cigar lighter adapter, did not fit the base of the unit securely. The bottom line was a poor connection and a unit that shut itself down on a frequent basis.
I walked the defective unit across the parking lot and exchanged it for a second one. This one, we tested in the store before I left. Everything checked out, and I walked quickly from the store and eagerly installed it in my car. This one powered up immediately.
The TomTom Go 910 is an intuitive and easy unit to set up and use. It?s quick to boot and the new GPS chip is quick to lock on a position. I paired my Verizon Motorola E815 phone with the unit and imported the phone book. It worked flawlessly and the quality of the speaker phone is very good. I let the unit take me home pulling off the road a couple of times to change to a different language just for fun. The voices are natural and even the text-to-speech was pleasing to listen to (although it kind of butchered the street name, ?Via De La Escuela??I?m in California).
Upon arrival at my house, I installed the TomTom Home software on my computer and hooked the unit up via the USB connector on the included home dock. I easily loaded several megabytes of MP3 files and photos to the 20 GB hard drive. All worked very well. Then I finally got around to reading the manual.
In fact the only bug I encountered was in the Home software itself, which at one point generated one of those annoying ?memory can?t be read? error messages that are fairly common in Windows. I submitted a tech support request to TomTom, and although they haven?t resolved the issue yet, they did reply to my email within minutes, letting me know they are working on it.
All in all, I?m very happy with my purchase. I?m planning a trip to Europe in the near future. I?m anxious to test the maps. Maybe I?ll even let my 910 speak German to me.Updated
A follup-up posting:
Reporting from Germany?well I arrived in Germany nearly a week ago, so I?ve had the opportunity to give my 910 a test using the European maps. In a word: outstanding!
The only glitch I had was in initial satellite acquisiton time, going from one side of the earth to the other. It took nearly 20 minutes for my 910 to find itself. Of course, in fairness, I?d come from California in the US, had switched maps and was on the Autobahn, traveling at a pretty good clip, while my 910 was trying to discover where it was.
Once it locked in, it hasn?t let me down once. And I?m in a small town called Bad Homburg, north of Frankfurt. The list of POIs, even here, is pretty impressive.
The initial connection problems I had with the first unit?s base do not exist on this one. The GPS ?clicks? firmly into place and is even smart enough to turn itself on and off as I start and shut down the little Mercedes A-Class car that Avis rented me.
Mein TomTom 910 GPS freut mich sehr!!!Updated
A follup-up posting:
Reporting from Germany?well I arrived in Germany nearly a week ago, so I?ve had the opportunity to give my 910 a test using the European maps. In a word: outstanding!
The only glitch I had was in initial satellite acquisiton time, going from one side of the earth to the other. It took nearly 20 minutes for my 910 to find itself. Of course, in fairness, I?d come from California in the US, had switched maps and was on the Autobahn, traveling at a pretty good clip, while my 910 was trying to discover where it was.
Once it locked in, it hasn?t let me down once. And I?m in a small town called Bad Homburg, north of Frankfurt. The list of POIs, even here, is pretty impressive.
The initial connection problems I had with the first unit?s base do not exist on this one. The GPS ?clicks? firmly into place and is even smart enough to turn itself on and off as I start and shut down the little Mercedes A-Class car that Avis rented me.
Mein TomTom 910 GPS freut mich sehr!!!
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