Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #37010 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: TomTom
• Model: 1V00560
• Released on: 2006-04-12
• Dimensions: .66 pounds

Features

• TomTom Go Satellite Navigation 510 1V00.560

Manufacturer's Description
3D view

The crystal-clear 3D view and graphics on TomTom GO 510 come displayed on an extra wide anti-glare screen that uses a built-in sensor to adjust to the changing light. Giving you an image of unrivalled clarity. By day, by night and even in direct sunlight.

User Interface

TomTom's award-winning software, with its intuitive interface and user-friendly touchscreen, gives you the best navigation experience imaginable.

Map Coverage

Detailed maps of your region and the major roads of Europe, pre-installed on a SD card. Giving you seamless door-to-door navigation across your region and cross border navigation to any town in Europe.

Hands-free calling

Leave your phone in your bag or pocket. With a compatible Bluetooth" phone you can make or take calls with just a touch of your TomTom GO 510's screen. Or let it automatically pick up your calls for you. You'll never again need a separate hands-free car kit.

iPod® control

Connect your iPod® to your GO to operate it via your GO 510 touchscreen. Enjoy MP3's or Podcasts through the high quality speaker or via your car stereo. TomTom GO 510 supports the iPod® 3rd and higher generation (except the iPod® Shuffle). Optional cable required.

TomTom PLUS

Make your journey safer, quicker and more fun with TomTom PLUS. Download a huge range of TomTom services: Safety camera warnings, real-time traffic and road condition information, weather reports, funny and famous voices, and much more.

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Customer Reviews

There's nothing wrong with the Tom Tom 510
I wanted to write a review to sort out a few issues raised by others which may put you off buying one. I have had NO problems with this item at all. It doesnt freeze and there's certainly no issue at all with the windscreen holder. The charger falling out is due to having it badly placed, I suggest people try putting it lower down so it rests on top of the dashboard as recommended. As for freezing, well its never happened to me.
I used to own a Tom Tom Go 300 and i thought this would be a small but worthwhile upgrade. Wrong, its a massive improvement in every way!

Firstly theres the new quick fix system. The unit plugs into your PC and downloads the location of the 12 GPS satellites for the next week so instead of wasting a minute searching for them each time you turn on you get an instant fix. The screen is much easier to see thanks to the auto adjusting light sensors. When i first used mine the sun was glaring and there was rain and thunderclouds and i could still see the screen while wearing sunglasses! The text is larger, crisper and more spaced out thanks to the 4" widescreen display.

You can now do a "city search" so if you don't know exactly where you want to go but just want to visit a city you can! Just type in "Brighton" for example and it'll take you to the main town centre, so much easier than having to make up an address or type in a random postcode.
The 510 also connects directly into your PC so you can use the Tom Tom via your pc keyboard and screen and plan your journeys without having to tap the screen. The hands free kit works fine with my phone and makes talking and driving much safer. The list of features goes on an on, the best new addition is the ability to watch the 510 drive the whole route before you set off to get used to any tricky junctions. You can also see a series of snapshots of the journey to help you spot what to look out for

Overall i struggle to see how anybody could improve on this system. True, the first time i used it i got sent down a road that was shut for roadworks but you can hardly expect it to know every single road closure on a daily basis! Even this wasn't a problem, i simply did a u-turn and within 2 seconds the 510 had worked out an alternative route.

Forget what others may say, this is a top notch unit which i as an advanced driving tutor would recommend to any motorist. Get it or get lost.

Tom Tom Ok!
I had lots of reservations when purchasing this product after reading all the reviews on this site about dodgy cradles and the like, but after using the 510 for the last 6 months now I can say its brilliant! I would not go anywhere new without it now. I did not have any problems with the unit at all other than what everyone has with the maps being occasionally out of date (same with any GPS). So I will be first in the que when the updated maps come out and will certainly be sticking with Tom Tom in the future.

Tom Tom Go 510
The TomTom Go 510 well what can i say, only that this is a very nice piece of technology from TomTom, the widescreen is enormous and the clarity of screen and resolution are absolutely second to none, the speaker is super loud and clear and increases and decreases with how loud the engine noise and background noise is in the car, which is a nice touch. You can plug your Ipod or any MP3 player straight into the go and play through the go's menu system, and the Bluetooth for mobile phones is brilliant as it doubles as a hands free car kit and lets you see texts on screen as well as caller display to see who's calling you before you answer.

It gives clear spoken instructions in over 36 different languages, and allows the user to change voices so you can select to listen to the instructions from your favourite celebrity or comedian, i have John Cleese on mine telling me where to go and its hilarious.

The maps cover door to door routing for the whole of Great Britain and all major roads for the whole of Europe, which if you go across the channel regularly is a real plus point.
The GO 510 comes with a preinstalled Database of speed camera locations and after doing a 140 mile round trip today, was faultless as it picked up every speed camera that i passed even displying the correct Mph, there are thousands of P.O.I's already installed on the unit so you will be able to find your way to supermarkets or petrol stations with ease when in strange surroundings.
The unit also offers Traffic information free for a months trial, Downloaded over your bluetooth mobile phone connection which i must say works a treat as it alerted me to an accident on my route and enabled me to recalculate another route that guided me around the problem..

The new Sirf star III chipset is unbelievable and allows the 510 to get a lock in a matter of seconds even indoors and keep it, People with cars that have athermic windscreens and normally have to have an external antenna need not worry anymore as the chipset is so good even these windscreens cannot stop the signal.

On a sour note the docking car mount is a nightmare and i can see TomTom recalling these within weeks as you need to be an orangutang to actually dock and remove the unit from its mount, the new Routing Algorythms leave a lot to be desired and i will hold forth on this issue until i have had more time to test it, but lets just say they are different.

All in all this new TomTom go 510 is a fantastic sat/nav and blows my streetpilot i3 into the weeds, if they get that mount sorted out then theres absolutely nothing out there on the market that can touch it..