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1.5 stars
"Plenty of bugs, stutters"
Pros: IQroutes information are collected from TomTom users and hence cover streets other than the ones with traffic sensors. The remote is far easier than trying to hit a spot on the screen while the car is moving about.
Cons: Buggy, reboots often, user interface is inconsistent. There's no way to select the quick menu from the remote control. No breadcrumb feature. Doesn't announce reaching waypoints other than end destination.
Summary: Although the product is usable and quite useful, it still has a long way to go. To activate speech to text, one triggers an "easter egg", the procedure is to select the state or country before entering the city name when navigating to an address. Until this is done, the speech to text icons are grayed out.
Unless you frequently run chkdsk or repair disk on the TomTom when connected to your PC, the unit will reboot often.
Prior to version 8.3, the automated re-routes would not observe your selection of avoid HOV lanes thereby routing you to the HOV lanes when you least expect it. To TomTom's credit, they fixed this in application version 8.3 however now once you've answered whether or not to avoid toll roads, it won't ask you again even if you re-route manually thereby making it impossible to compare a route with toll roads versus a route without before deciding whether or not the tolls are worth the price (ie.: saving 1 minute hardly justifies paying tolls but saving 10 minutes might).
Prior to version 8.3, the text to speech worked fine but starting with 8.3, th TomTom 930 stutters.
Prior to version 8.3, the instructions would play over the FM transmitter on your car stereos. With 8.3 the FM transmitter option is no longer available for the instructions although it's still available for music. Ideally instructions could be played over both the transmitter and the internal speaker simultaneously.
With version 8.3, the FM transmitter is off at power up and is only on while playing music. If no music is playing for a while, the transmitter shuts off, presumably to save power. The net effect is that you get static until you start the jukebox and you get static shortly after answering the handsfree as the music is paused while you're on the handsfree (when the handsfree works).
The handsfree tends to cause the TomTom to reboot.
The TomTom will read incoming text messages, prior to version 8.3, this worked maybe two out of three times but with 8.3, it seems to work 1 out of 3 times.
Prior to 8.3, the TomTOm would route around stalled traffic seamlessly, presumably using the IQ routes information but with the 8.3 upgrade, it now consistently routes me directly into stalled traffic instead of the short cut.
My TT930 suddenly stopped receiving GPS signals halfway during a trip and had to be RMA'd.
You definitely need a backup GPS if you select this one.
I'm a little disappointed by CNet reviews, they don't appear to have done more than a cursory inspection of the device. I would expect a review to be based on some usage with an emphasis on the problems encountered. The reboots, easter egg interface and inconsistent observation of routing preferences with respect to HOV's prior to version 8.3 and with respect to toll roads after version 8.3 showed up very early during my ownership of this device (with the exception of the post version 8.3 issues) and I would expect some mention of them in a thorough review.
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TomTom GO 930 GPS:
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