Routing is TOP !!!  Equipment still OK, Customer sad!

Routing is TOP !!! Equipment still OK, Customer sad!

TomTom GO 500 Europe Traffic navigation system (13 cm (5 inch) capacitive touch display - operation by finger gestures, Lifetime Traffic & Maps TomTom) (Electronics)

Customer Review

After many but very negative reviews, I want to write something positive for the TomTom Go 500 Live. Before half a year, after a very bad experience with the availability of expensive annually payable Live services my old TOMTOM GO750live and the inadequate responses of customer support on this condition, I did not think at all once again to buy a TomTom device.

So a Garmin 3597 was purchased in May 2013. Actually, that Garmin can do much more than the new GO range. It looks better, has the beautiful display, a nicer map display, many more features such as postcode entry, Bluetooth FSE, in advance on the PC can be planned and saved routes, etc .. It also has the entire time of my mission (ca.30.000km) easily works, but I was often, especially in cities, stuck in traffic. So I was not really happy with this device.

If the accuracy and the road coverage of a TomTom Live service you were accustomed once, then you will be in the longer term with the Live services from Navigon / Garmin and Co., as they are at present, not really happy, especially if you like me as a sales representative often in densely populated areas on the road (eg, Dusseldorf / Cologne / Bonn / Ruhr). Through this really precise storage services that apparently really with appropriate traffic cover all roads (In Navigon / Garmin and Co. probably only highways and major roads?!?) Simply results in a much better to the respective traffic situation matched routing. Now since now less than two weeks I use the GO500 Live in conjunction with my Samsung S3 and since I had no noticeable build more, which was not displayed correctly. The choice of roadblocks works fine, since traffic incidents are recorded on smaller roads. Since I again use TOMTOM Live services there are much less stop with me to go. So I'm more relaxed and with a more accurate predicted arrival time to the respective destination. The top priority for me at a Navi. Incidentally, the calculation time for the respective routes is very fast.

Of course it would be nice if TOMTOM would add a few more features in the next update. Just calculate an alternative route or the entry of a forward road barrier would be very useful for me.

Let's wait what happens so even in the future. Until now, the G0500 runs live with me any problems, the connections to the smartphone succeed reliably and the amount of data (about 7 MB for two weeks and about 2.500km) is very limited.

In addition, one should remember that a TOMTOM GO 500 live about 100, - costs less than, for example, a Garmin 3597 or Becker REVO. The GO 500 is available here at Amazon currently starts at 179, - and the 400 even more favorable. Which Navi other manufacturer offers this price lifelong Map Updates and Live services, 5-inch monitor, a well-functioning Aktivhalter and simple routing?

For people who just want to reliably and quickly come up with its Navi from A to B and ready the Live services are to pick up on their smartphone into Navi there in my eyes no better option than the new TOMTOM GO devices. Whether GO 400, 500 or 600 is just a matter of screen size. Those who do not want to use the phone or remain only a 5000 or 6000, with of course reflects the included data usage in the purchase price. To my knowledge, these devices are otherwise absolutely identical range of functions.

However, I of course can not award full marks because many useful functions are simply missing (as already mentioned above) and the memory ability of planned routes. Too bad, but at some point someone determined times builds the perfect for me Navi. If TOMTOM nachlegt the correct software updates, this device would have to be the one chance so.

Update 11/05/2013
Now the software version 13.030 is available. Now the target selection is possible by coordinates and there is finally the possibility to plan routes and save them. In addition, a warning for exceeding the speed limit now is activated. If it so the software updates continues are achieved for me soon the five stars.

Update 05/12/2014
After farther updates now I regard the Go 500 from a star. The measures announced by TOMTOM improvements are very very slow unseeded in the updates of the software and then they are additionally often with errors. So navigating is not fun and we scared away in the long run customers. I have in addition also a Garmin 3597th Since it works as it should be. Even the live storage services from Garmin are after the provider change to "traffic here," a Nokia subsidiary has already come very close to the TOMTOM live traffic services approach. This I have just the Garmin 3597LMT upgraded to the full score.

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