Tom Tom Go - First Impressions

BMWE34sport wrote: Nigel I will PM you a website as i dont want to be seen as advertising

Cheers Stuart, its not advertising if your helping other members, and even less so if your helping me

I'll have a squint then put a link on here for other interested parties.

Stuart/Nigel

Thanks! With your post tennis you've helped me make up my mind. I'm going to go with the 700 as I believe that has all the European maps preloaded and living in Southern France but working in Holland I'll be dooing a good bit of driving - when I'm not sending my airmiles ballistic!

I think I've to wait til June for the 700. If Tom Tom are Dutch then I should be able to get it at a better price here - so long as its all in English!!

Thanks Again!!

Not posh, just read that it can be a pain crossing borders if you don't have all maps on board, cna't have wifey getting lost with the monthly wine quota now can I?

I didn't realise it can in all languages, deleting the ones you don't need was a sensible approach Nigel, stops any comedians form changing languages on you when you're not looking - happened to my mobile when in Singapore, after a few beers someone thought they'd change the phone language to Thai not realising that we'd not be able to read it to change it back a again! Still I found a very helpful young Thai lady waiting outside the hotel who helped me out!

Rhys wrote: ..and changed the phone menu back into English

But of course.... what were you thinking Rhys?

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 ???

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!

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?

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

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 , 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