This great unit from TomTom works well, with easy installation and programming, clear audio guidance and the ability to cope with type 2 or several statements in quick succession.
Visual clarity is supported by the wide screen with 16:9 aspect ratio, and zoom in to show the details of the intersections, as you approach.
Speech recognition enables hands free route, which really impressed our testers tried we are dealing with a variety of place names in different accents with no difficulty.
Minor weaknesses are few, but also a total route accuracy. For example, they found the road opposite a couple of objectives we are pursuing, but accurate than the destination. In addition, it’s a little iffy among closely bundled, high buildings.
Intermittent reception cans sometimes confusion. But it was good in general in London and has highlighted the congestion charging zone in time to avoid them if we have chosen.
With voice recognition, clear voice instructions, clear widescreen with good graphics and visual instructions, good instructions and easy to program functions, it is SA nave a winner.
But this device takes slightly longer to install than some others. It is straightforward and easy to use, intuitive, but usually it does not really give you enough memory. 2GB is not enough, once you start updating it. I think the cards could be marketed better and cheaper considering the cost of the first unit. I also believe that the screen is a little too reflective in bright days. It has a few technical problems. The antenna used for transport to guide updates to the fact that often crashes, but they seem to have produced a patch for it. It also has some shortcomings, if it supports Bluetooth for syncing to Nokia E90 and a few other models, which says it is. It just will not do with my Blackberry 9000 Bold much for something with data and I cannot answer to my problem there is with TomTom, Blackberry or my SP. Flaws aside, I still think the device worth the money is needed, more memory, as TomTom will find very hard to seem resolutions on issues, I would say their support is also good.
When we had our first TomTom we will once again stunned by its simplicity and, as it once an expensive high end option in the car for anyone with a few hundred pounds. So, if TomTom Go 520 for our review, we asked what the gradual evolution rather than revolution of TomTom could surprise us?
Slide the 520 apart from the box and from a smaller, leaner design still maintaining a good screen, the 520 looks like a TomTom size. The mountain is a slightly revised version of the hold on the 510 and 710 and the device should be stiff enough and allows for quick removal when you leave the car. Start the 520 and the familiar yet improved TomTom UI jumps into life, but under the friendly and simple interface, a new twist compatible (at least for TomTom) a is that it can only keep our dirty gloves, turn off the power and the resources to help screen clean.
The headline grabber is not only text to speech conversion, so you get spoken street names, but the opposite of speech into text, so you can say your destination to your TomTom and it will lay in the route, cool eh? So without further delay, we jumped in trying out the new features and as a navigation device, the new 520 to the mark by consistently TTG units.
Thus the voice control, the device also shows no obvious signs of any major labels or Voice Activated flashing lights, just speak a menu option to your address, it takes you through the number of city streets. As you say, each section repeated it back to the screen and displays a list of possibilities, one can say either select OK when they scored right or jump in and use the touch screen. Our first test was, while sitting in the office and we managed to enter a London address first time with the 520 always the right road 1 Time. We have tried a couple of tricky names created with about 90 success rate of only 1 street a few questions, you have to speak very clearly to us a little worried for our next test.
Because the TomTom is in his car, we had the speech while in the car with the engine running and then try to move, both very common situations. The first test stationary with the engine running (but out of radio) went as well as in the office, we then place the stop at about 30mph and then press the button and tried to enter a destination. City was good, but the street seemed to fall accuracy than the background noise began to throw into the pot and the unit struggled to distinguish between the words.
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Elmo Populous is an electronics enthusiast and reviewer. He particularly enjoys reviewing sat nav systems at http://www.futuratty.com
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