Product Description

The ultimate car navigator.  4.3' wide touchscreen, Full European mapping (31 countries), IQ Routes for fastest possible routing, voice address input, Bluetooth with hands free calling and many other great features.  Product comes complete with safety camera locations,   TomTom latest map guarantee and TomTom Mapshare.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5405 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: 1CH7.053.00
• Released on: 2008-05-01
• Dimensions: .49 pounds
• Display size: 4.3

Manufacturer's Description

TomTom GO - The Ultimate Car Navigator - Perfectly Engineered

Latest Map Guarantee

Download the latest map free via TomTom Home. Available within 30 days of using your TomTom device.



TomTom Map Share

Make instant corrections to your own map and benefit from thousands of corrections made by TomTom users every day free of charge from tomtom.com.



'Help Me!' Menu

You can find help, with local emergency service information at your fingertips. From hospitals to roadside assistance, this information will be useful in all situations.



Pre-installed Safety SAFETY
Camera Locations

Your device comes with fixed safety camera alerts pre-installed, to help you to drive more safely and responsibly.



TomTom Home - Future Proof

Everything you need to keep your TomTom device up to date - get new software, download new maps, access free content from the TomTom community and subscribe to services.



4.3" Wide Touchscreen

Touch screen technology gives you the easiest operation to make using your device a pleasure.



IQ Routes™

Calculates your routes based on the real average speed measured on roads rather than maximum speeds. This will always provide you with the smartest route, saving you money, time and fuel.



Advanced Lane Guidance

Clearly shows which lane to take at junctions so you don’t miss your turning, allowing you to drive relaxed and safe.



Hands-free calling via Bluetooth®

Make and answer phone calls safely while driving, putting you in control and in touch.



Text to Speech

No need to take your eyes off the road. Speech technology can give you directions, inform you of the latest traffic messages and even read your text messages.



Voice Address Input

Just tell your device the city, street and house number and let it do the rest.

TomTom is powered by Tele Atlas Quality Maps

Tele Atlas is a leading worldwide map data provider for personal navigation solutions. In a rapidly expanding industry and changing world, Tele Atlas continuously produces rich, fresh and accurate quality maps. Tele Atlas brand promise: find more, reflects how we see a world where people do not just want to move from A to B, but want to find interesting things and places on the way: restaurants, hotels, petrol stations, museums and so on. It's not about just guiding users to destinations but also helping them easily find the people, places and products that interest them the most.

Customer Reviews

Map Share and share alike
Quick and clear route planning, the wide touch screen is very good. Have used it now for several journeys in Scotland and England and very impressed.
The supplied female voice is very clear with good warnings of upcoming junctions. I've used the Go 730 on the M1, M4, M8, M9, M25 and certainly appreciated this model's upgraded junction advice. I was quite happy to use the 730 without seeing the screen, just listening to the instructions, which were loud enough to hear over road/engine noise, but the kids volume had to be turned down!
If you take a wrong turn (or your local knowledge is better) it asks you to turn around. Should you ignore it, it very quickly comes up with route correction, updating distances and arrival time.
As for the mapping. I'm a realist and live in a rural area. Most of the mapping systems on the net (Google et al) don't even spell my village correctly. So I bought this device with my eyes unblinkered, but very much interested in the Map Share facility where users can update road changes, location errors etc. Have input several corrections myself and watching with interest to see when they are implemented.
Bluetooth/handsfree to my Samsung SGH-G600 works well. It takes your phonebook across and I found it straightforward to use.
No issues with the windscreen mounting, the car charger or the computer docking station, but a plain old mains charger would have been a nice inclusion, especially at this price point. So one star dropped. The battery lasted 3.5 hours from fully charged.
So, do I like it? Yes. Recommend it for family car use? Yes. Map Share? You get more out of life if you're prepared to put something back in!

Inferior to older versions
We purchased this recently as an upgrade from an original 500. What a joke! The voice is inferior to that of the original and far less clear. We used it for 24 hours and found that when using a mobile phone on blue tooth the tomtom crashed and had to be restarted. Would not have been so bad, but on crashing, it loses all of your settings and you then have to spend time going through all the menus again.
It does look more attractive than the "Fat Navs", but the looks come at a cost. You have to plug it in manually and then attach to the base, a lot more fiddly than the originals which just clip to base and go. It also has an inferior speaker and battery.
I would highly recommend that anyone wanting to purchase a tomtom should look at the 500 or 700 we have one of each and they are far superior. Luckily we were able to take our 730 back for a refund!!

TomTom losing its way
Being the third TT, this will be the last. It has many features that should assist a driver, but the reality is that TT have forgotten to get the basics right. I wonder if the programmers are up to the job. Particularly bad is the slow reaction time means you have passed a junction before the map has caught up (it can be 5 seconds between refresh - seriously!), on roundabouts it's quite hopeless. There are many unofficial TT support sites - I wish I'd listened to the poor reviews TT is generally receiving both on hardware and their support.