Average customer rating: If you demand the best ! mixed opinion on this one TomTom 920 Go: a GPS with European, USA and Canada maps Good product ruined by the usless mount system Lots of Potential, Does Not Live Up to Expectations

TomTom GO 920 Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator Manufacturer: TomTom ProductGroup: CE Binding: Electronics Vehicle GPS | GPS & Navigation | Categories | Electronics | In-Dash Vehicle GPS (Installed) | Motorcycle GPS | On-Dash GPS MP3 GPS | GPS & Navigation | Categories | Electronics Traffic-Enabled | GPS & Navigation | Categories | Electronics Bluetooth Enabled | GPS & Navigation | Categories | Electronics Navigation Systems | Car Electronics | Categories | Electronics | Vehicle GPS Systems GPS | TomTom | Custom Brands | Custom Stores | Specialty Stores | Electronics Features | Electronics Similar Items: Premium Hard Shell Travel Case for TomTom GPS Navigator : ONE / XL * S / 3rd Gen / Go 920 920T 720 - to hold GPS screen, adapters and other accessories TomTom XL / 520 / 720 Leather Carry Case and Strap Tom Tom 720/920 Fast Charging Home Dock Tom Tom Additional Mount with Car Charger Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable Product Features: TomTom is the world's largest provider of portable navigation solutions 4 Gb Internal Flash, 4.3 inch color LCD Pre-loaded maps of USA, Canada & Europe from TeleAtlas Bluetooth for Hands-Free calling, PLUS services and audio output Rechargeable internal 5 hour Lithium Polymer battery ASIN: B000VLHN9E

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description -- 10/02/08

The icon-driven menu system makes using TomTom's snap.

Emergency menu gives you fast direct access to emergency numbers and direction to the nearest assistance.

Voice instructions are available in over 30 languages (complete list below). You can even record directions in your own voice, download specialty voices free at TomTom's website, or purchase celebrity voices. Listen to sample clips. Free download samples Sylvia Celebrity voice samples Dennis Hopper Curt Schilling Gary Busey Or record your own directions in your own voice.

The 4.3-inch (diagonal) 3D driving view offers a clear picture of the road and maneuvers ahead (actual size).

What's New -- Enhanced Positioning Technology
TomTom's new Enhanced Positioning Technology uses movement and gravity sensors to calculate drivers' positions when GPS signals are unavailable. This helps the device continue to navigate to its destination, even when there may not be a direct line-of-sight connection to a satellite (for example, when driving in a city with tall buildings, underpasses or bridges).

What's New -- Voice Prompted Address Entry
Voice prompted address entry gives users the option to speak the address to which they want to drive. Users can simply speak the city, street name and address number they would like to travel to, and the device will automatically calculate the route.

MapShare lets you add your own map corrections and POIs, then share them with the entire TomTom user community via the TomTom HOME website

What's New -- Map Share
The GO 920T includes TomTom's innovative new Map Share technology. Map Share enables users to make easy changes to the map and to share map corrections with other TomTom customers so that users always have the most up-to-date maps available.

Widescreen View and FM Transmitter
See more. Hear more. The GO 920T offers a 4.3-inch, extra-wide, touch-screen LCD display that features anti-glare technology for easy viewing even in direct sunlight. Realistic and clear visual instructions are provided with high-quality 3D graphics, while spoken instructions tell you where you need to go in your own language. As an added convenience, text-to-speech functionality provides you with actual street names. The built-in FM Transmitter to play music and navigation instructions over the car stereo.

Hands-Free Calling
In more and more places, it is becoming illegal to use cell phones while driving without a hands-free kit. The GO 920T's Bluetooth capability, microphone and speaker lets match it to any bluetooth-capable phone to make hands-free mobile phone calls.

Maps
The GO 920T comes come preinstalled with complete maps of the United States, Canada and Europe on 4 GB of internal memory. The GO 920 range has the most complete set of pre-installed maps available in TomTom's entire portfolio.

Remote control
The TomTom GO 920 range comes with an improved Bluetooth remote control. The remote control enables drivers to operate the device safely from anywhere in the car without having to reach over to the device.

Help When You Need It
Extensive safety features including `Help Me' menu, to give drivers direct access to emergency services and roadside assistance;

Fun Extras to Personalize Your TomTom
Record your own driving instructions. View documents, exchange positions via SMS and Bluetooth wireless technology and select a favorite car icon on the screen.

Full range of accessories to match the design and finish of the new GO range, including a leather carry case, a soft touch carry case, iPod cable and a home charger.

HOME is TomTom's free software that enables TomTom users to future proof and personalize their devices. Via easy desktop access, any TomTom customer can update maps, download the latest application, celebrity voices and more. TomTom HOME allows TomTom customers to

• Update their TomTom device with TomTom's latest software and services automatically and for free
• Easily buy and install the latest maps and European safety cameras
• Download celebrity and character voices
• Pre-plan trip itineraries
• Receive free traffic alerts on their computers

What's in the Box
TomTom Go 920T gps portable navigation device, suction mount, car charger, USB 2.0 data cable, and installation CD with connection software and manual.

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Customer Reviews:

If you demand the best !.......2008-01-01

High quality, very attractive unit. Well made of quality materials. Looks right at home in my car. Very luxurious European looking GPS. TomTom is based in Europe in the Netherlands and the European quality shows.

Very user friendly and easy to use.

Excellent maps of the entire USA, Canada, Guam, Europe. The first time I hooked mine up it automatically downloaded and updated the maps to the latest version over my broadband Internet connection. The detail is very nice with building footprints ( in major metro areas, including here in Albuquerque ) and color shading. Routing accuracy and speed has been very good.

The MapShare feature is really cool. No other GPS manufacturer has it. Sorry you Garmin owners ! You can send and receive map & POI updates with other TomTom users over the Internet and keep your unit very current using the free TomTom Home software. You can build and maintain POI's right on the TomTom too or create on your PC and copy over to your TomTom. Thousands of POI's can be downloaded for free from TomTom user forums on the Net and copied over to your TomTom.

This unit has 4GB of internal memory and I put in my 8GB SD card giving me 12GB of memory for maps, music, and photos.

Windshield mount is simple and holds on well if you slightly moisten the suction cup first. Mine has been on for weeks now. The desktop cradle is well made and looks nice on my desk.

I am looking forward to taking it with me on our annual road-trip in Europe this spring.

I contacted TomTom tech support a couple of times with questions and their help was great. There is also the excellent TomTom user forums out there on the Net.

I highly recommend it.

mixed opinion on this one.......2007-12-28

I was using a nuvi 660 and decided to try the tom tom 920. This is what I have found.

(1) The driving instructions are not as clear with the Tom Tom 920. The tom tom doesn't always voice prompt how many feet or the street name so I find myself having to look at the screen to figure out what to do. The nuvi always has a prompt such as turn left on in so it is always easy to know what to do

(2) The tom tom is much harder to use than the nuvi, but I believe it does have more options so maybe that is why (although I just may not have tried to find them all on the nuvi). You can just startup the Nuvi and pretty much figure it out (my mid 70's aged parents did anyway), but I had to play around with the Nuvi to get started (I work in the computer industry so I'm usually pretty good at figuring things out)

(3) Although the Tom Tom advertises that you can pick from several voices, the only one that will voice prompt the street names is the computer generated female voice. It took alittle bit of effort for me to figure out why I wasn't getting those street names.

(4) I took my Tom Tom to NY with me and it "blank" screened on me when I turned my car off. I couldn't get it to go back on until my daughter thought of pushing the reset button. That worked, but most people probably would have just thought it was broken.

(5) The Tom Tom seems to route me through town whereas the Nuvi seems to get me on freeways. I have the tom tom set to default to "fastest" route and there are not tollroads here so I'm not sure why it takes me through streets with lots of lights before finally putting me on the freeway.

(6) The Tom Tom seems to have more POIs which is very helpful

(7) The Tom Tom works with the bluetooth on my cell phone (a Moto Razr) better then the Nuvi (the Nuvi worked, but I was always losing my connection)

(8) The Nuvi display seems to be better. I never had trouble seeing anything with the Nuvi during any lighting conditions, but did have trouble with the Tom Tom when the sun was shining into my car from the back (so was hitting the gps unit).

I think that I'm going to send the Tom Tom 920 back and get one of the 700 series Nuvi instead. I find the Tom Tom somewhat frustrating in the way it provides directions and I think that is probably the most important thing (although I do think that the better selection of POIs with the Tom Tom would be very helpful)

TomTom 920 Go: a GPS with European, USA and Canada maps.......2007-12-24

Let's back to the primary question: why should i buy the TomTom 920 Go GPS? Personally i do not really care about the MP3 player, the bluetooth features and all the fancy features all current GPS provides (if i want such features, i buy specific devices which provide an high quality for a given features, e.g., a real MP3 player). So i bought the device for one major features: THE MAPS! With the TomTom 920, if you travel in Europe, in the US or in Canada like i do, no need to buy extra maps, everything is included. And i check the accuracy of US, Canada and French maps, this is pretty good.

After that, i also had the opportunity to check few other features:
- Connection with the cell phone via bluetooth: it works just fine with my cell phone.
- MP3 player: works just fine too, the integrated speakers are not that good but who is expecting something else in a so small device? Moreover you can plug the device to your car music system if you have an input for MP3 player.
- Voice recognition to enter your destination: kind of useless, the input typing directly the address is so efficient that i do not see the interest of such a feature. Moreover, i do not enter addresses while driving (too dangerous), i always plan my trips in advance so it is not a problem to type addresses.
- capability to personalize the voice that gives you the directions: kind of fun. :-)

Therefore at the end, if you are looking for a GPS device with a maximum of maps (i.e., a real GPS device), this choice is i think the best choice currently available. Other features are fun but not that useful. If you do not need those maps, buy a cheaper device that will work as fine as this one.

Good product ruined by the usless mount system.......2007-12-22

This could potentially be a perfect product if the mounting system is improved upon. TomTom should take note from Garmin on the mount. The Garmin mount is the best in the industry. Another gripe is the computer voices and the speaker quality. TomTom products have terrible computer Voice quality. Garmin is much better at this. I have to disable the announce street name feature because of such poor quality of sound. So i stick with human voices and don't have text to speech or street name annunciation. My last gripe is that the 920 lacks the very important "view screen upside down" feature that my cheap TomTom ONE has. Got a brand new tomtom GO920 as an upgrade for our tomtom ONE. And was very surprised to find that it is lacking one of the most important features to us that was on the much cheaper and simpler TomTom One. This is very important in my application and for my business. This was a purchase of many TomTom 920 devices for my business that now have to be returned because they are unusable for our business.

Lots of Potential, Does Not Live Up to Expectations.......2007-12-17

After waiting two months for my TomTom 920, it finally showed up. While there are lots of good features about the unit, there are enough disadvantages to make you think twice about purchasing this unit.

As with another reviewer, I live in Hawaii. As he described, the unit does not work for Hawaii-based address formats. I contacted e-mail support and this issue and within 24 hours they responded with the following:

"Thank you for contacting TomTom Customer Support regarding addresses in Hawaii. Unfortunately there is no work around or fix for this yet. We have been getting a lot of feedback about it though, so hopefully the software designers and map database people will add a - button or at least allow all five digits to be entered, but we don't have any information on whether they are working on this issue."

So they know about this major flaw, but apparently Customer support and Developement don't talk to each other.

Another major disappointment is battery life. While I intend to use the unit in the car most of the time, I also wanted to bring it with me when walking or touring with me. The battery life is advertised at 5 hours, but I can barely get 2 hours out of it.

The Point of Interests in the unit, as least for Hawaii, is incomplete. For example, the brand new Queens Market Shopping Center in the Waikoloa Beach Resort area in the list, but the Kings Shops Shopping Center, which is essentially across the street and has been there for years, is not listed as a shopping center. I also noticed gas stations and tourist lookout points that appear in the maps, but don't exist in the real world. Also, I noticed that a lot of resturants were not listed.

The touch screen is a little hard to use, especially when you want to zoom in and out the Browse Map section.

I really want to like the unit, as it has many nice features (see the other reviews and the feature list), but until TomTom can update their software, I can't recommend it to others.

Average customer rating:

Portable Car Non-Skid Friction Beanbag Auto Dash Dashboard Mount for Apple iPod Nano iPhone MP3, Garmin Nuvi 350 200 200W 250 260 650 660 GPS, TomTom One, Zune Player, Navigon 7100, Blackberry, Motorola Razr, MP3 Player or Garmin color eTrex Nuvi 750 760, Magellan RoadMate GPS Maestro 3100 3140 3200 3250 4000 4040 4050 4250, RoadMate 2000 Mio C230 C720T, OneXL, Go 720 920T GPS Navigator Comparable Garmin 010-10306-00 Manufacturer: Gilsson Technologies ProductGroup: CE Vehicle Mounts | GPS System Accessories | Accessories & Supplies | Categories | Electronics Mounts | Accessories & Supplies | Categories | Electronics | Computer & Monitor Mounts | Projector Mounts | Speaker Mounts | TV Mounts Product Features: Works with all windshield suction cup mount/bracket for GPS, Smartphone, XM, MP3, PDA and other devices. Can accommodate all suction cups with 3.375" or smaller diameter. More stable than Garmin and other vendor's portable mounts. Easy to transfer from car to car, and to hide upon exiting vehicle. Sturdy, Stable and made from high quality wet-suit neoprene material. ASIN: B001238FXS

Product Description

Compatible with suction cup mount/bracket of most portable Garmin, TomTom, Magellan, Mio, Navman, Lowrance GPS, iPod iPhone, Smartphone, PDA, XM receivers. The portable mount features anti-skid material and it is weighted to prevent any sliding or tilting during turning, braking and normal vehicle maneuvers. We have tested our mount against three other competitive products and found our mount to be most stable. Please note, this item is the portable beanbag mount at the bottom and does not include the suction cup pedestal and the universal GPS holder nor the GPS themselves. Those items are included in the 2nd and 3rd pictures for illustration purposes only.

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