Well pleased with this easy to use product. Not wanting to spend a shed load of money on a new sat nav i reviewed the comments on the go 400 and decided to purchase one for myself. The device looks good and to be honest so far i have not had any problems with the day to day use. The tracking is precise, the instructions (when the volume is up) are clear and the traffic and live updates appear to be accurate. The connection to my iphone was without problem.
I do like the 3d buildings when in many built up areas. All in all i am happy with my purchase and would recommend this to anyone, who like me, does not like to chuck money at the top end units when there are good quality devices at a better price. The lifetime traffic and maps was also a nice bonus as an outdated sat nav is really more trouble than it is worth.
Perfect. Brilliant product - just what i needed. It does everything that i had expected and i strongly recommend it. Perfect.
Pros
- The new Apple sat-nav, the iGO. Toyota won't be happy. Wait, it's made by who?
- New, improved, great!
- Impressive but flawed
- Tomtom Go 500 EU
- Great if you aren't a tweaker
- Routing to excellence
Cons
- Existing TomTom users prepare for disappointment
- Check this one carefully before you part with your cash!
- Don't waste your money
- If all you want is A to B, it's Ok-ish
- but strangely everything else Bluetooth connected to my Iphone easily, only the TT400 kept connecting and then just
- BLACKBERRY USERS BEWARE!!
Negative Review of TOMTOM 1FA6.002.04 GO 600 EU IN - (SatNav GPS Devices) (discountinued by manufacturer)
If all you want is a to b, it's ok-ish. If you're reading this, you've probably also read many other reviews and have mixed feelings about making this purchase. If you have a smartphone, my advice is to buy a cheap satnav app for now, then come back here in 6-12 months to see if things have improved. The go400 (and 500/600) is ok to get you from a to b, but it fails to make this an easy experience when things go wrong, or when you're not entirely sure of the journey. First off, the display.
The photos on this page are disingenuous - the black bar at the top of the display hides a lot of the road ahead - the very roundabout or junction that you're about to navigate. Sometimes this is hidden with less than 200 metres to go. The 3d display is not really 3d at all - it's a 2d display with a slight angle of distance. You can't plan alternative routes - the one given is the only one. Much of the display is covered with side panels and frankly irrelevant touch points while driving (why would i want a zoom in/out panel when (a) i can pinch to zoom in/out and (b) i'm driving?)the info bar on the right-hand side gets cluttered with icons which sit one on top of the other, making it difficult to work out what's actually happening.
Features of TOMTOM 1FA6.002.04 GO 600 EU IN - (SatNav GPS Devices) (discountinued by manufacturer)
- NEW-Interactive Maps
- Lifetime TomTom Traffic via Smartphone
- Lifetime Maps
- 3D Maps
TomTom GO 600 Europe, FEEL ON TOP OF YOUR JOURNEY LIKE NEVER BEFORE, The all new TomTom GO has been completely re-designed to put you in control of your drive. Make the smartest driving decisions by knowing precisely what is going on around you and what lies ahead. Put the world at your fingertips with a brand new Interactive Map. Drive with world-class traffic information with Lifetime TomTom Traffic. Know exactly where you are with buildings and landmarks in stunning 3D.
EXPERIENCE A NEW WORLD OF NAVIGATION — HIGHLIGHTS, Pinch to ZoomClick here for a larger image 3D MapsClick here for a larger image Lifetime TomTom Traffic — Smartphone ConnectedClick here for a larger image
Interactive Map, Simply zoom in and out to find and explore places on the map with your fingertips. Tap on the map to get an instant route to your destination.
Pinch to Zoom, Simply Pinch to Zoom on the interactive map to find places and explore more of the world around you. Zoom in to find a point of interest on the map and zoom out to see what lies up ahead.
Tap & Go, Use Tap & Go to instantly get a route to your destination. Save time and get moving faster.
Lifetime TomTom Traffic — Smartphone Connected, Drive with world-class traffic information for the life of your device*. Get to your destination faster with precise and accurate, real-time information. TomTom Traffic pinpoints exactly where delays start and end so you always know your fastest route. *Lifetime is the useful life of the device, so means the period of time that TomTom continues to support your device with software updates, services, content or accessories. A device will have reached the end of its life when none of these are available any more.
3D Maps, See buildings and landmarks in stunning 3D. With 3D Maps, you'll always know exactly where you are.
Route Bar, Essential traffic and travel information at a glance. The Route Bar shows precise traffic and speed camera information on the road ahead.
Quick Search, Find your destination faster with intuitive search results. Quick Search starts to find your destination as soon you start typing.
My Places, See your favourite locations on the map. Personalise your map with My Places so you can easily find and navigate to your favourite locations again and again.
WORLD-CLASS TRAFFIC,
Lifetime TomTom Traffic via Smartphone, Drive with world-class traffic information for the life of your device via your smartphone*. Get to your destination faster with precise and accurate, real-time information. TomTom Traffic covers more roads than any other sat nav brand and pinpoints exactly where delays start and end so you always know your fastest route. *Your smartphone needs to be compatible and come with a data plan. Extra costs may apply, check tomtom.com/connect for more information.
WORLD-CLASS MAPS, Map-making is in TomTom's DNA; we've been making world-class maps for more than 25 years. We combine state-of-the-art technologies with real-time updates from the more than 21 million drivers in our Map Share community to create the most accurate and up-to-date maps available. Europe's road network changes regularly. We work tirelessly to make sure you always have the most up-to-date map. With Lifetime Maps you can download the most recent map at least 4 times each year, for the life of your device.
Lifetime Maps, Always drive with the latest map. Get to your destination faster with Lifetime Maps. For the life of your product, you can download 4 or more full updates of the map on your device every year. You receive all updates to the road network, addresses and Points of Interest.
IQ Routes, The world's largest database of real travel times gives you the fastest routes and the most accurate arrival times – it's genius!
Map Share, Benefit from free daily map changes, reported by the Map Share Community, and get to your destination without unwanted surprises.
Pre-Installed Mapping of 45 Countries, Detailed Coverage Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco The Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain (incl. Canary Islands) Sweden Switzerland Turkey U.K. (incl. Channel Islands) Ukraine Vatican City Connecting Roads Albania Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Serbia
DESIGNED FOR SMART NAVIGATION,
3 Months Speed Cameras, Drive more relaxed with alerts for speed cameras ahead. These timely warnings increase your awareness of local speed limits and help you save money on speeding fines. As part of our global driving community you'll benefit from an advanced and highly accurate warning service across Europe.
6″ (15CM) Capacitive Touch Screen, See your next instruction better on our biggest and sharpest screen yet. With bigger menus and buttons on the extra-large 6″ (15 cm) screen, navigation is safe and easy.
Advanced Lane Guidance, Clearly shows which lane to take at junctions so you don't miss your turning. On the most difficult highway intersections, realistic 3D representation of the junction keeps you relaxed and safe.
Spoken Street Names, Helping you to keep your eyes on the road, spoken instructions now include street names, to make turnings even clearer.
Click & Go Mount, Includes a USB car charger and cable. Magnetic mounting for fast and effortless one hand docking.
Parking Assist, Find nearby parking with the aid of your TomTom device. Since Parking Assist is available throughout your journey, you can choose to navigate directly to the nearest car park when planning your route, or find parking en route – either near your destination or close to your current location.
COMPARISON TABLE, Lifetime TomTom Traffic — Always Connected 3 Year Traffic Updates 1 Year Traffic Updates
Box ContainsTomTom GO 600 Device Click & GO Mount Car Charger & USB Cable Documentation
Impressive But Flawed. This is an impressive-looking item, with a big screen and slim profile. It comes nicely packed in a colourful box, containing instruction leaflet, long usb cable, and windscreen mount. Mine arrived fully charged and ready to go, but that may be because mine was a review model. Yours might need to be charged before it is usable. The pc software is an easy download (if you can find it on the website), but when i plugged in the tom tom go 600, its first update was absolutely massive and took half the night, though my broadband is a bit rubbish. For comparison, i mounted my old tom tom one alongside the tom tom go 600 in my car, and set off on a round trip up and down the m1. The first thing i noticed was that the tom tom go 600 says less than the old tom tom one. It also starts speaking a little nearer to junctions. This isn't a problem, as the voice is much clearer (a bbc radio news reader kind of voice), and its advice is concise and clear. As ever, other voices are available, but as with my previous satnavs, i found the default voice worked best. The suction mount for the tom tom go 600 is neat and strong, and only fell off the windscreen twice during a week. However, it's a big satnav, and it falls down hard. I would certain avoid installing it anywhere above the steering wheel. The usb cable plugs into the mount, not the satnav. This makes it easier to use, but it is almost impossible to insert the cable into the back of the mount, without taking the mount off the screen. The much-vaunted 3d maps don't really appear until you are in a built-up area, and i'm not convinced it makes much difference to the business of navigating to a destination. The 3d buildings don't look much like the real ones, though animation is impressively smooth. Tom tom go 600 has a large range of settings, especially when it comes to warnings. For example, you may set it to only alert you about a speed camera if you are currently speeding. This nicely eradicates the annoying beeps that anyone who drives up the m1 will know well - the m1 is peppered with speed cameras. By connecting the tom tom go 600 to your smart phone (via bluetooth) it can download live traffic updates. This works well, but i found getting it started delayed my journey starts by a minute or so. Despite all the cool features of this satnav, i found my old tom tom one easier to use while driving along. For example, marking a new speed camera is not that easy on the tom tom go 600, but it's a simple button-press on the old tom tom one. On my trial journey up the m1, the tom tom go 600 did one on one occasion advise me to go the wrong way up a slip lane. That's really dangerous. To be fair, if you accidently set it to 'cycle route' mode, it will send you up the odd footpath and trail here and there, but this was in normal car-driving mode. No satnav should direct you to make an illegal manoeuvre. Overall then, it looks impressive, and the touch screen is very responsive. However, the buttons on the user interface are far too small (physically much smaller than on my comparatively tiny tom tom one screen), and some of its features seem to have taken a step backward in terms of ease of use. .
Tomtom Go 500 Eu. Despite these new tomtom go's not getting the best feedback i decided to get one because the things people complain about are not really an issue for me. I previously had a tomtom xl which i had for 5 years and the maps were really in need of updating so i wanted a sat nav with lifetime map updates and looks and performs more modern and slicker. The first things you notice are the map is more interactive, the touch screen is much more responsive and it's so much faster and easier to scroll around the map. One thing i found annoying about my old xl was if you zoomed in or out it would reset back to the default position after a few seconds, also if you wanted to look at a different part of the route or map you had to mess about going through a number of pages to find the browse map option. Both these issues have thankfully been resolved, if you zoom in or out the view stays where you leave it and to scroll around the map all you have to do is touch the arrow icon on the screen. Instead of pages of icons there is now a row of 7 icons and a settings icon with sub menus but i can't say i've noticed any options or features missing that i've ever used, to me it just appears to have a more simplified layout so everything you need is easy to access. It feels very solid and good quality, the mount is a big improvement in every way, the touch screen is very responsive, it's easier to operate and navigate, the graphics are a bit of an improvement but it's how much smoother they are that is really impressive. There is hardly any processing delay when scrolling around the map, calculating routes probably never takes any more than about 10 seconds, the sound is also much better thanks to a better speaker and improved spoken voices with the additional feature of being able to say names (streets, towns, city's etc. ). My only criticism is that the map updates are very slow to make it from real world to tomtom's system. There has been two roundabouts added to a very busy road near where i live and it took a good 4 months until the update was available and they aren't even the correct size and shape, whereas a free sat nav app i have on my phone updated the alteration within a matter of days. On the whole though it is a brilliant sat nav and i would highly recommend it. .
Great If You Aren't a Tweaker. If you are confused by the mix of really good and really bad reviews, it's simple. If you are the kind of person who likes to tweak everything on a device to make it exactly the way you want it, the 500 is very bad, because the tweaking is very limited. If, however, you tend to just take something out of the box and use it (like me), it's great. The display is very clear, routes are found extremely quickly, the guidance is good and the bluetooth traffic warnings are great. It looks good and the touchscreen interface is miles ahead of previous tomtom 730. The only negative for the non-tweaker is the lack of ability to say the road ahead is blocked. To be fair, in my experience with the previous device, half the time you tried this it was useless, but i can't understand why there isn't a provision for it. The traffic warnings will sometimes reroute around a blockage, but they have to know about it. This omission loses it one star, but otherwise i have been delighted with it. .
Product Info
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 16.9 x 10.5 cm ; 290 g
- Boxed-product Weight: 599 g
- Batteries 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included)
- Item model number: GO 600 EU 45 (BE-NL-LU-IE-UK)
- ASIN: B00CXSNFXG
Conclusion of TOMTOM 1FA6
✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚---- updated (24/12/14) review begins ----✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚*** i try to update this review regularly, but to see the full list of software updates, visit the tomtom website here http://bit. ***this is an in depth product review (updated after almost 18 months use) for tomtom's premium navigation device, the go 6000 (but will also largely apply to any of the go x0, go x00 and go x000 devices - for this reason, i have also placed this review within their respective pages). In certain aspects, i will compare this device to my previous sat-nav, a tomtom go live 1005 world. In recent reviews of tomtom's latest sat-navs i have seen a worrying trend of consumers buying a product without really realising what that specific model can, and more importantly can't do. All of these sat-navs have screen sizes designated by their first number (e.
If you're comparing sat-navs with the same number of '0's after the screen size number, then as far as i'm aware, the only differences are going to be screen size and screen resolution (resolution improving as you go up screen sizes). All of the go sat-navs have the same software within them, and all come with lifetime tomtom map updates (that's not your lifetime). The major (with a capital 'm') feature that differentiates these devices from the other go sat-navs, is that they have a resistive screen. The go x00 and go x000 sat-navs all have capacitive screens. A resistive screen registers pressure on the screen, so it's older technology, therefore costing less.
Capacitive screens are what you'll find on all modern smartphones; smooth glass that require no actual pressure on the screen to register input. Go 500 and 600 (there used to be a go 400, but that has been discontinued by tomtom) :these mid-range go sat-navs use capacitive screens, so in my opinion are better than the above range. The x00 range connects to tomtom live services (i. This simply means that you need a smartphone (i believe only iphone or android) with you at all times if you want to get traffic updates, which you do. Go 5000 and 6000 :these are the premium sat-navs from tomtom.
They have a capacitive screen, and are 'always connected'. Simply put, they get traffic updates automatically, as they have a sim-card inside. If justification to the wife for forking out extra for a bigger screen is needed, then you can always claim it's saferthe supplied window mount is just like the one provided with my old go live 1005, only better. I had a few issues with the old one where i'd slot the device into the mount, and just presume it was charging, only for it to die at the most inopportune moment. This time, the charging cable (micro-usb & same length as previous) plugs directly into the back of the mount, never touching the actual sat-nav.
The magnet holding the device in place is also stronger than previously, as anything less than a firm pull will simply tilt the mount. I purchased tomtom's own universal case for 6 inch sat-navs for £20 from amazon (i believe the one currently being offered with the go 50 'winter edition'). The interior of the case is designed in such a way that forces me to put the sat-nav in backwards, avoiding the risk of the ridiculously placed positioning material scratching the screen (not the touch screen part, but still the glass surrounding it). Tomtom also do a huge case that i've never used/seen that can hold accessories, as well as varying cases for smaller devices. I'd still prefer my old case back however✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚✚---- navigation, traffic, maps and speed cameras ----after almost 18 months of use, i can confidently say this sat-nav is accurate in terms of arrival times and distances.
The speed at which it finds your route is better than any sat-nav i have used before. From the main map screen through to it having properly started navigating me for a 100 mile journey, took exactly 20 seconds. - things you can do to your current route -- clear route- find alternative- avoid blocked road (yes sports fans, it's finally here - not that i've ever needed it)- avoid toll roads and more- add stop to route- add to my routes (save the route to your favourites effectively)- change route type (fastest, shortest, eco, avoid motorways, walking, cycling)- reorder stops- drive to route- play route preview (watch a sped-up version of your upcoming route)when arriving at a destination, it informs you of which side of the road the address is on and where the house number is. - traffic -tomtom in my opinion and experience provide better traffic updates than any other manufacturer. As mentioned previously, with all of the go sat-navs, you get lifetime (the lifetime of the product) traffic for free.
- maps -you now get lifetime (of the product) free map updates which results in at least four downloads a year. I use a combination of tomtom speed cameras in my go sat-nav, alongside my phone running the app 'cameralert', with the database from the guys at pgpsw; which from memory is a similar price. Tomtom has decided that this is the direction they wish to take their company, so either hop-on-board, or jump-ship. Only recently has the clock found its way to the navigation screen, and this is only when you actually have a route input. This probably isn't a huge issue for most, but i regularly use this device in a vehicle where the clock has been removed, so the option of having a clock on at all times would be nice.
-- there is also no battery meter on the main screen, irrelevant of whether or not a route has been plotted or if the device is charging. If you are charging the device, then you can't actually see how much of a charge is actually remaining, without unplugging the sat-nav. Recently a tomtom employee commented and said it was a good idea, so let's hope we see that, or something similar in the coming months. -- another battery related issue is that no matter how good the wired connection is, at times (through either a slightly faulty wire or a nudge with my knee), the device stops charging. If you're staring intently at the screen, then this is shown with the screen getting slightly darker.
If you're not looking at the screen (which chances are, you won't be), then it's basically impossible to tell. Something that means that either immediately as it's unplugged, or when i glance at it 5 mins later, it's clear that it's not charging-- with the new (as of 27/06/14) 'dynamic route bar', you can now have both the remaining time and distance, showed at the same time. The distance until the next hazard/traffic/roadworks etc is already on the screen inside the route bar. I like the way the maps look, especially now i can have a bright green line showing my route, it stands out and looks good. You can also decide if you want the sat-nav start making aggresive noises if you're driving too fast-- liked customisation ability and multiple menu options on previous tomtom sat-navs?.
On my old go live 1005, in the settings menu, there were 36 different further icons to click on, on the new go series, there are around eight. And no, they haven't just condensed them extraordinarily well-- the navigation screen goes from day to night mode automatically at a certain time of day (i think relating to the sunset time, but i could be mistaken). My issue is with the 'hey, tomtom' feature. Not a massive issue for me, as i've never got on with voice control on any device; so it's an added feature that i'm sure many will love, but i'll happily keep off. -- from the main navigation screen, you can finally, at-a-glance see if live services have dropped out.
Tomtom Go 600. Sent to my very fast. Very nice service. Easy to use and quick to pick up the gps signal. Will go back as and when i need a new one. .
Five Stars. A great sat nav. Very easy to use. .
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