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This review is from: TomTom GO 2405TM 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & MapsCustomer review from the Amazon Vine™ Program (What's this?)
I liked this product a lot. The interface is smooth and it navigates very well to most destinations. I tested it driving around town for a couple of days and also included a longer trip. The only miscues I had were: (1) it thought a store I found through the POI was about a half mile further down the road than it was; and (2) from a parking lot, it wanted me to drive through the woods to reach a nearby highway (instead of driving out to the main road).I have built in navigation systems in my wife's Honda Pilot and my BMW M3. This easily blows both of those systems out of the water. I see myself taking this with me when traveling to avoid using the rental car systems.There were some unexpected pros to this:- I loved the windshield mount and the way the cord attaches to the mount while the unit attaches through magnets - very clean and easy to take in and out of the car.- the telephone bluetooth integration is perfect. It easily works with my blackberry 9700, downloaded my phonebook and easily routed my calls. It also will read emails and text messages for me.- the speaker is very loud and the voices are easy to understand- the battery lasts (nearly) forever - I would easily consider taking a weekend trip only running on batteries.Some cons:- the traffic integration is terrible. It only works when connected through the DC cord (not on battery - it seems the transceiver is part of the cord), and it takes forever to locate a Clear Channel traffic signal (I live outside NYC, with tons of high power Clear Channel signals nearby). The unit also seems to include downloaded traffic, but that appears limited to ongoing construction and known congestion (the kind that is always there) - not an accident on the highway.- the screen is beautiful under ideal conditions, but is highly reflective and not good at an angle. It found myself constantly adjusting it when driving down the highway in bright sunlight.- I couldn't figure out how to keep it zoomed out. On long trips (a few hours), I like to keep my navigation zoomed out so you can really see your progress. This keeps automatically zooming in each time there is one of those "stay in the left lane to stay on the highway" directions.A note for bikers - the unit includes the ability to navigate for walking or biking too. However, there is absolutely no way I could figure to mount this to a bike. There is nothing on the unit itself to attach a zip tie or anything, and I could not locate a bike mount that would work with the magnet attachment this requires.Overall, this is a great unit and TomTom has done a great job with the interface and (most) routing. I deducted one star (would be one and a half if possible) for the traffic integration and the screen reflections....
This review is from: TomTom GO 2405TM 4.3-Inch Portable Bluetooth GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & MapsI did a side-by-side comparison of TomTom GO 2405TM with a Garmin nüvi 1370/1370T 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Traffic. I realize this is probably not a 100% fair test as 1370 is not Garmin's latest model, but they did something very interesting this year - announced a bunch of models that will not ship until end of December. I cant imagine they did that on purpose - must be manufacturing delays... With that said, here are a few things about this TomTom:Advantages:Well designed: excellent suction cup mount, magnetic device mount and magnetic power cable connector. All very easy to use. Nice glass screen.Nice easy to use interface: The user interface and software have been redesigned to look and function a little more like the Garmin, and yet TomTom's are way better and more intuitive. I always found the previous versions of TomTom software easy to use as well.Traffic options seem better: There are ways to preview the traffic on your entire selected route, as well as other choices - Garmin only shows color-coded traffic on the map (similar to Google Maps) - my thinking is, why would i need that? When I see the traffic when I am close to it, it's sort of too late to do anything about it. Garmin displays ads when you stop to offset cost of this service. I haven't experienced it, but i heard it was annoying as check. You are paying to be spammed -so no thanks. TomTom has the traffic receiver built into the power cable - Garmin has a separate FM antenna that needs to be plugged in.TomTom 2405 did a better job of recalculating ...
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