TomTom GO 720
TomTom GO 720
Perfectly engineered; New TomTom GO 720, the ultimate car navigator. Elegant, slim, pocketable design - perfect fit for your car and your pocket.
GO 720 takes everything that has made TomTom the world leader in portable navigation and builds on it. Perfectly engineered, and with a range of enhancements to every aspect of your navigation experience.
Speech Recognition:
Speaking an address, to tell your device where to take you, is much easier than typing. TomTom GO 720 understands the pronunciation of city and street names.
You can also answer questions while driving, so you can keep your eyes on the road with the combination of text-to-speech and speech recognition technology. For example:
Your GO 720 asks:
\"Traffic delay now 12 minutes; shall I try to optimize?\"
\"A new text message was received; shall I read it aloud?\"
and you just reply \"Yes\" or \"No\"
Best Navigation
At the heart of the TomTom GO 720 is its navigation performance:
High sensitivity GPS chipset gives you the best positioning
Industry-leading route calculation takes you there the best possible way
Should you deviate from your planned route, fast route re-calculation adjusts to your new location instantly
And when you first turn on, TomTom QuickGPSfix technology is best at finding the GPS satellites, to give you even quicker start-up
Navigation innovations include:
See where you are: Building footprints, for a more realistic representation of your surroundings
Hear where you are: text-to-speech means your device announces street names, for even easier identification of your turn
Today\'s best maps. And tomorrow\'s.
TomTom GO 720 come with the latest and most complete maps pre-installed on 2GB internal memory, for accurate, door-to-door navigation throughout Western Europe. Coverage includes Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Republic
Customer Review: Marketing speed
I believe TomTom GPSses to be some of the best available but TomTom\'s habit of marketing their devices with illustrations showing imaginary vehicles doing up to 50mph in central London is puzzling.
Customer Review: Pluses And Minuses Over Older Go Model
I bought the 720 recently and am generally pleased with it having owned an original Tomtom Go since the company released it.
There are obvious benefits to the unit such as more simple menu navigation and of course what perhaps could have been incorporated into the original Go, being postcode navigation which I feel is essential as I drive for a living. I mostly simply point and click to find destinations but there\'s less pointing and clicking than with the older technology of the original Go.
The internal speaker of the unit seems to slightly distort at the higher volumes when directions are given. Perhaps this could be down to the thinner unit dimensions as opposed to the original Go, only allowing for a more compact and less powerful speaker. It doesn\'t run as loud anyway. Tomtom might have been reckoning that the internal FM transmitter allowing for playback through the car stereo could be a solution but possibly have made a slight mistake it seems to me. I want a radio to play music on, not listen to voice commands from a sat nav system.
The Bluetooth connection with a Sony Ericsson W810i phone was a very seamless operation, with the contents of the phones address book very quickly copied to the 720. I am not sure though that I would make the move from a bluetooth headset that I currently use with my phone to relying on having to speak at higher than normal volumes with the 720. Calls have so far been full of complaints at the other end of the line because people can\'t hear me with the unit.
The 720\'s screen is larger than the original go and I belive that i\'m right in saying that the processing power means that destinations are found more quickly than with the original Go model. I haven\'t tried the european maps out personally, but the cross border travel means less user input is required. The original model required countries to be selected when entering them (as long as you have the european maps on cd). This apparently recognises countries as you enter them.
A niggle at this point would be that although the unit has a nice usb cradle and car charger, it isn\'t supplied with a mains adaptor for charging purposes. The guess here would be that you update it using the usb cradle and of course connect it to the cigar lighter socket when in vehicle. It doesn\'t though seem to charge particularly quickly by these means.
A nice feature to me by the way is the speak to the unit user input for directions by City/Street/House Number. Clever stuff, though it\'s a whole lot easier and quicker personally to simply type the postcode in. A personal choice. Darned if I can get it to respond to voice commands to find anywhere in Bournemouth:-), simply because it\'s not understanding the Bournemouth part of my voice instruction.
All in all I think i\'ve made a reasonable move with purchasing the 720. It doesn\'t do much more of a job in getting me to destinations than my original go model, has loads more gimmicks attatched to it and a couple of worthwhile new features. A quarter of a grand to buy roughly, what\'s that in gallons of fuel? If your paper map reading skills are as bad as mine then how long will it take for you to recoup your money in saved fuel costs that this device could make?
Sony \"Map your memories\" GPS Unit for Cyber-shot Cameras
Sony \"Map your memories\" GPS Unit for Cyber-shot Cameras
Customer Review: GPS Tracking works exactly as expected.
This little GPS tracking unit works exactly as described. You switch it on, give it a few minutes to locate itself, hang it of off somewhere convient and forget about it. Go for a walk, snap some shots. When you get back upload the photos to the PC and plug in the GPS unit. Tell the software which GPS track to use and where to find the photos and it updates each one with the actual coordinates of the place it was taken. Upload to a geographically sensitive site and see you phots on the map.
I\'d prefer that it was a bit more obvious when it was traking or not, a single light either flashes once or twice. I also prefer that everything was not written under the assumption that you are using a Sony camera, this works fine with any camera that time stamps each photo, but the software persists in generating unnecessary warning messages.
On the whole I was very impressed with this, I\'d been expected the usual hour or so of messing around to get it to work, but so long as you just click through the warning messages no problems at all, takes about 2 minutes to run.
MapWise 50: Great Britain (PC DVD)
MapWise 50: Great Britain (PC DVD)
Customer Review: Good mapping software for whole UK
I\'ve been using Hillwalker Max the Munros from Isys for a wee while now and have been very pleased with it. However, I needed some areas outwith the Munros coverage are and decided to look into their other products. I\'ve now got myself the entire GB maps at a very good price indeed.
As with Hillwalker Max, the software is generally very good. I\'ve been using it to create routes for some places I\'ve been needing to visit. I\'m very pleased with it.
The only other thing I need now is to be able to overlay the routes I\'m planning on on Google earth, but I believe that this facility will soon be available as a free download.
Good software, if you need the UK Landranger maps, give this a try.
A GPS User Manual: Working with Garmin Receivers
A GPS User Manual: Working with Garmin Receivers
Memory-Map Version 5 Standard Edition - OS Maps 1:50K - Region 01
Memory-Map Version 5 Standard Edition - OS Maps 1:50K - Region 01
Seamless OS Landranger 1:50,000 maps available for the whole of Britain. Use these detailed OS maps to plan walks, mountain bike trails, print your own maps and program routes and waypoints into a GPS. Not only that but you can also review your performance and actual route taken by importing a GPS tracklog back into your PC and overlaying it on a map of your choice.
Plan Routes:
Now you can use real colour maps on a PC or Pocket PC to help you find your way. Choose from a wide range of maps for Land, Sea, City and Air. Memory-Map? is available with a range of inclusive Ordnance Survey® maps or a European Road Map.
Route Planning:- Click on the map to add routes and waypoints or draw a track freehand using the AutoTrack? tool. See leg distance, compass bearing and total journey length.
Digital Terrain?:- Check the overall ascent and descent of your route with this interactive hill profile.
Save and share routes:- Save waypoints, routes and tracks for future use, send them via email, or even put them on your web page ? great for planning a group trip!
3D World?:- Visualise the terrain around your routes and tracks in a continuous 3D landscape! See the shape of the horizon, change the lighting to envisage the hills during different times of the day or create Fly-through movies of your routes and tracks and save them for future use.
Print Maps
Zoom in and print your own custom full colour route maps.
Print to scale:- Print maps at the scale of your choice.
Multi-page maps:- Customise your printing with the new automatic paging for longer routes.
TextNotes?:- Add detailed text to your maps ? useful for creating route finding notes, recording details of hazards or highlighting areas of interest.
Route card:- Print your route card detailing waypoints, compass bearings, distances and grid coordinates and include notes & photos.
Relief Shading:- Print maps showing 3D terrain on an accurate 2D scale map. Just a glance at the map
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