Tom Tom Go - First Impressions

Picked up the Tom Tom Go at Schipol airport Thursday, 714 yo-yos or 474 pounds for those of you still using the old stuff. Seems do as stated on tin, well impressed!

Doubtless many daft questions will arise as I try to use more of it's features, I'm male and therefore allergic to reading manuals

Oh right ...sorry Nigel , I shall remember that for next time , sorry again

As i was saying to Nigel you have to get the upgrade directly from TomTom which will include the new maps and the version 5 software , they charge 79 euros for the upgrade

Maps for france pre-installed on an SD card are £89.99 or you cna but the cd set for the whole of europe for £99.99 then buy your own SD cards and install the maps .... I would defintley recommend this option if in the future you are going to do more European Trips

Excellent Glad you sorted it , it certainly is a nifty bit of kit ....one other thing I would recommend if you haven't already is to download the free upgrade to version 5.0 from TomToms website as it makes it even better

Nigel , thats very good of you mate thanks , I will have a word with management and see what they say ...i'll PM you later thanks again

Stephen - Not yet , we are expecting to recieve the full version of Navigator 5 at the beggining of June so my guess would be as soon as that starts to ship they will release details of the upgrade .

I assume it will be the same sort of process as when they upgraded 2 , you pay an upgrade price and they then send you the new CD

Skull - You should be able get the GO to warn you as my one does and it has the same speed camera datebase , try the following

Go into the change preferences menu
Then go into the Maintain POI menu
Then there should be a Warn when near POI menu , select that
The select the catergory ( ie the speed cameras )
Then select the distance to warn you from
Then select the sound of the alert .............and you should be away

Nigel wrote: soon you will be able to subscribe to traffic master and it will route you around jams automatically if you have it set to do so.

they have TomTom Traffic available for use with a GPRS mobile phone?  sorry, just noticed Stuarts reply earlier (note to self:  pay attention!)

Edited by stephenperry

Derek M5 wrote: I've got the phone, I've got a laptop, I've got a PC, can't see why I'd need a PDA

you won't get me to convince you as I am in the same camp, i only use my pda for satnav 

Ally is right, I have an HP Ipaq 2210 with TomTom Navigator 3, added the free CheckPOInt software (http://checkpoint.oabsoftware.nl/) to warn me of upcoming Points Of Interest, downloaded from POIplace (http://poiplace.oabsoftware.nl/index.php) and pocketgpsworld (http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/uksafetycameras.php)

As TomTom can only handle 5 digit postcodes at the moment (rumoured to be resolved in the upcoming v5.0), another nice little addon is this one from www.digitools.co.uk... err, actually it isnt now, cos he's been busted by the ordnance survey for breach of copyright, but i've got a copy that ill put up on the ftp server for download if any bmw forum users want it?

I can get the 700 for 550 quid in Holland, if anyone can better that inc postage to either France or Holland, pm me, please!

nigel you can get a 512 sd card off ebuyer for £20 . works fine in the tom tom go , as i got one for mine.
does seem harsh to be charged so much to update maps.

would be nice if the go gave a little noise out when you reached a poi scamera.

i could do with the france map as ime off fishing in france next week and i dont seem to have the major roads of europe on mine ???