TomTom GO 740 Live 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable Live Internet Connected GPS Navigator by TomTom
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Digital camera reviews of TomTom GO 740 Live 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable Live Internet Connected GPS Navigator
Digital camera Review: Great product
Summary: 4 Stars
researched and found Tom Tom to be one of the best
bought my first one a couple of years ago and these were gifts
Digital camera Review: Great unit if you don't need bluetooth
Summary: 2 Stars
this is a great unit provide you do not need or want bluetooth support. If you want bt then be aware that the unit does, and very likely will, reboot after 2-3 days of using bt. TomTom has been aware of this for over a year and still hasn't fixed it. One work-around is to downgrade the apps to an older, more stable version.
Another is to buy a Garmin
[stay away from Magellan as they want you to upgrade and don't support their older GSP units]
Digital camera Review: Had it for 9 months, too many issues.
Summary: 2 Stars
I gave this GPS a try, mostly for the traffic services. But it has enough other problems to make life frustrating. I don't recommend it.
The good:
-The traffic service, overall, seems to be good in my experience (when live services are working). I sometimes commute in the DC area, and I'm on I-95 a lot. If there's bad traffic on the highways, it generally let's me know and can reroute me easily. It's not always good on the smaller (but heavily traveled) US highways.
-The fuel prices are up-to-date (when live services are working).
-It has a lot of customizable features, and you can have a ton of info on the screen.
The Bad:
-As you'll read in many reviews, the reboots are ridiculous. The device just randomly reboots, sometimes often, sometimes not at all. It's very annoying if it happens when you are coming up on a turn or exit. I don't understand why they can't fix this problem. Tech support offers no solution.
-The Live services have expired on me several times, meaning the traffic info, google, fuel prices are all inactive. Generally this is at the end of the month, even though I had a recurring $9.95 per month payment setup through TomTom. Tech support was no help. "You'll need to make a new TomTom account." I did this twice. How many times should I have to do this again? I'm paying for the service for crying out loud.
-Computer has trouble speaking street names and exits quite often in my area. Not a huge deal, but it's supposed to work better than it does, and I could see it being confusing in a place of which I knew nothing about.
-Customer service was not very helpful. See tech support problems above. They also gave me no real response when I asked why "HD Traffic" is available in Europe, but they aren't pushing for it here in the US. That would be a great feature. Too bad.
After 9 months, I was very frustrated with the reboots, live service problems and lack of tech support, so I sold the device. Too bad, it had promise. Maybe one day they'll improve upon this model, but I am now soured on TomTom for good.
Digital camera Review: Had to let go
Summary: 2 Stars
The Tomtom 740 Live has awesome features. However its main defect lies in its main purpose of use. Here is my experience with tomtom:
1. Often it will not find the exact location of your destination:
It will tell you have reached your destination when you are hundreds of yards away. The worst incident when I asked for the nearest WAWA. I saw Wawa on my left but the tomtom asked me to make a right. I followed it to see where it's going to take me. 200 yards later and in the middle of the highway, Salisbury Blvd, announced" you have reached your destination".
Also it's just tells you "you have reached your destination" and let you find out if it's on right or left side of the road.
2: Zoom in, Zoom out boxes are very difficult to use: I had to use the back of a pencil to be able to touch the "+" and "-" signs for zoom in zoom out. They are almost impossible to touch using a finger. If you miss then the display will go to the options display.
3: Lane assist or Lane confusion; throughout my entire 400 miles trip, lane assist instructed me to use the left 2 lanes whenever there is upcoming toll. After it was too late I found myself in the Ez pass lane where you have to have the EZ pass gadget to pay your toll.
4: Do you know what you doing? I said that to the tomtom few times, couple when it took me to a dead end street and the map was showing the street was connected to other streets and instructed me to make a turn. The other time it pushed me into the opposite end of a one way street when luckily I saw the DO NOT ENTER sign and I was able to avoid it.
5: Traffic fanatic: 10 PM almost no cars around. I saw what seemed to be an accident about 1/2 a mile away. I also saw there was one lane available to pass through. Tomtom took me into a detour to avoid the accident which delayed my trip 15 minutes.
The final incident with traffic occurred when I was few blocks away from home. The traffic was heavy I agree but no matter how heavy the flow was good enough to arrive in less than five minutes. Tomtom disagreed and took me into a detour. It took me through the tunnel then back into the express way. At that point I said enough is enough. I turned it off, used my human GPS to find my way back home then sent back to the store the next day.
Bye-bye tomtom
Digital camera Review: Hardware is crap
Summary: 1 Stars
Mine died after 15 months of very light use. The only thing tech support told me to do was hold in the power button. There are much better choices than a tomtom.