Device is class - but follow-up costs through upgrades

I have the Go 730 is now less than a year and can fall back on a few national and international experiences.
The device itself has convinced me it has always brought me a few exceptions (in Klaipeda / Lithuania piloted the Altstadt-way street Fußgängerzonen- and chaos with the caravan in the middle) to where I wanted to go. The time calculations are very helpful and mostly reassuring. Lane guidance is great, FM transmitter then but to handle rather cumbersome in practice, battery life is okay. The often reported problems with the support I can not confirm - that thing has not rely on Baltic roads into place. So far so good.

If I had made this review about 8 weeks after the purchase, it would have been 5 points without hesitation. Now there are only three, because:
As soon as you want to update the card (s), it gets really steep expensive. The integrated European card (2GB) costs about 90 euros. Updates do not come cheap, no matter how frivolous TomTom customers always attracts with "special offers"! Unless you can be the same one on a subscription, it is a bit cheaper (about 50 euros per year), but again, though the most recent map is only installed on the device. So you should quickly decide if you intend that or you pay all in all, turn 90 Euros (discounted current version plus one year updates). The current corrections made by the other users (Map Share) can not replace an official maps mE.
If you come to the insane idea of ​​owning two Navis TomTom (approximately for two cars or a car and a motorcycle with the TomTom Rider), then this pricing policy will be multiplied by the number of Navis - each card can, according to information from TomTom only be used on the device, whose "account", it has been downloaded. I think that's already on the border of highway robbery!

So device without compromising great - but the thick end will come later.