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TomTom GO 520 With UK & Ireland Mapping | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
Buy New: £154.99
New (22) Used (2) Refurbished (1) from £110.00
Rating:  16 reviews
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7 x 7 x 3.5
Legal Disclaimer: IFILE
MPN: 1N00560
Model: 1N00560
UPC: 636926017022
EAN: 0636926017022
ASIN: B000RW2WU2
Release Date: June 11, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New Sealed. Next day via Special delivery. When Checkout you only choose standard delivery but we will post it via Special Next Day Delivery. 1 year warranty
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| • | TOMTOM GO 520 512MB | | • | SAT NAV UK |
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Product Description
TomTom GO 520, introducing a new era in car navigation. Elegant, slim, pocketable design - perfect fit for your car and your pocket. GO 520 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. The smartest navigator is also the easiest TomTom has a reputation for the most user-friendly and efficient navigation devices. And the GO 520 is no exception. A range of useful and also fun new features all benefit from the latest version of an award-winning intuitive user interface that makes the smartest TomTom technology ease to use Easier on the eye: a 4.3" widescreen improves your view of where you are, and makes entering instructions easier and quickerBetter communicator: text-to-speech means your device can announce street names, as well as sms and traffic messages. Giving you easier guidance and allowing you to focus better on the road aheadBetter listener: speech recognition lets you tell your device where to go, instead of typing it on screenBetter view day and night: light sensor gives automatic brightness controlLatest mapping: preloaded internal memory containing maps of United Kingdom & Ireland provided by TeleAtlas. Easy voice address input Speech Recognition: - Speaking an address, to tell your device where to take you, is much easier than typing. TomTom GO 520 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 520 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 520 is its navigation performance: High sensitivity GPS chipset gives you the best positioningIndustry-
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 At last, sat nav with daily map updates! August 13, 2007
Paul Dodd
175 out of 190 found this review helpful
By far the biggest improvement on this system compared to previous Tom Toms is that no longer will you ever have to suffer a map being wrong, with the Tom Tom 520/720 the maps are updated everyday. If you're driving along and you come across a road that isn't currently on your map just tap the screen and it will map the new road as you drive along it. Plug the Tom Tom into your pc each night and your map modifications are sent to the Tom Tom site at the same time as downloading everyone else's map corrections. Everyone who has mocked sat nav systems in the past for their inaccuracy will now have nothing to complain about as you'll never have wrong maps. You can even correct changes to 1 way systems or speed limits.
There are many other major improvements such as the ability to speak to the unit rather than having to press the screen. How many times have we all been tempted to lean over and tap the screen at a time when it isn't safe but you just had to do it? All you need to do now is speak navigational instructions such as "Glasgow" then it asks which road, if it hasn't quite understood you or there's more than 1 road with the same name in that area then you get a numbered list to choose from and you just say "1" or "2" etc. It also speaks back to you when giving directions so instead of just saying "take the next road on the left" it will say "turn into the next left, castle road" or whatever the road name is. It also sounds very human and not like one of those creepy speech synthesizers from the 80's that gave kids nightmares.
Despite having a larger than ever 4.3 inch screen this Tom Tom is far smaller than before which makes it much easier to carry around with you unlike the brick sized Tom Tom 510. It is lighter, thinner, sleeker and the battery lasts an hour longer than on the previous models so you can now navigate for 5 hours without recharging. The on/off button is greatly improved so it no longer keeps turning itself on when in a bag.
You can now not only store MP3 songs on your Tom Tom but you can send them through your car radio, even better you don't need a fancy blue tooth stereo to do this, it works with any car radio at all. Just select a blank frequency like 103.00 fm or whatever, tell the Tom Tom that frequency and hey presto, crystal clear mp3s play through your car speakers with the tom tom instructions coming out the speakers as well or just from the Tom Tom as normal.
It's hard to see how the Tom Tom 520 could ever be improved upon, I had many ideas I wanted to see used by Tom Tom and they've done them all - the ability to speak to it, the bigger screen, the map updates. The only advantages the 720 has over the 520 is that is has a 2GB hard drive built in but that seems pointless to me when SD cards come up to 8Gb in size now and they access much faster than a hard drive. A hard drive would also drain more battery power because it has moving parts. The 720 also comes with full door to door. European maps but that's only useful if you ever plan on crossing Europe. Although the 720 is only 30 more, the 520 is where the smart money goes in my opinion.
The hands free phone system is great and means you can answer your phone and talk legally. Some people critise the Tom Tom 520 for not being compatible with all mobile phones, well just to clear that up it does work fine for talking with any phone which has bluetooth, it is just that not all phones can send text messages to the Tom Tom and that's a very minor complaint as far as I'm concerned.
This may not be the cheapest system available but it does 10 times more than any other and you get what you pay for. There is no better sat nav system available today.
TTG 520 August 6, 2007
A. Messenger
71 out of 81 found this review helpful
This is a real improvement on a TTG 510. The mapping is improved, the ability for it to speak a road name as you enter or turn into a road is wonderful (no more trying to see the road name on the screen whilst driving). Its ability to understand spoken instructions is unbelieveable. Its size and battery capacity should make all its competitors sit up and take note and the mount is better, although there is still room for improvement here. On the whole a brilliant piece of kit.
An worthwhile upgrade. October 13, 2007
John Nunn (Coventry, U.K.)
40 out of 41 found this review helpful
This new design has all of the great feature you expect from TomTom but coupled with a more usable mounting system and a great widescreen display. Both myself and my wife spent a large amount of time investigating the various models on the market and found the features and ease of use of the TomTom Go 520/720 were clearly the best available. Coupled with the iPod cable I can now use both my TomTom and iPod through my car radio and not have difficulty hearing instructions over the music. On the downside my Mobile phone, an orange SPV3100, does not want to work with the hands free option provided; this is a bit of a disappointment to an otherwise perfect solution.
 Its great - but a word of warning !!! September 29, 2007
M. J. Phillips
38 out of 43 found this review helpful
I have just bought this after owning a Garmin sat nav. It is clearly a top sat nav, the vioice recognision is very good, speed top etc. Loads of fuctions and fun. The word of warning is related to the hands free compatibility. I am talking with tom tom customer service about this right now, i have a SE W8010i, which seems to work fine with the GO 520, message reading, phone book transfur, receiving and making calls via the screen, its the buzzing i get (and the other people get) when making a call. Tom tom have said, the phone isnt compatable so there is no support for this problem. If you look at their compatible list for the GO 520, there are only 3 manufactures that have fully compatable phones - so im not sure their claim this unit can be used as a hands free phone unit is really fair - you can check the compatibility at www.tomtom.com/phones
I would recommend you do - hay, other than that, its a top toy to have.
Martin
Excellent November 19, 2007
C. Renton (Scotland)
33 out of 36 found this review helpful
Just back from a 1000 mile round trip and "Tom" behaved impeccably. The thing I like about it rather than the Navman is that if I ignore it's directions instead of telling me to do U-turns for the next 5 minutes it just quietly plots a new route.
I have inserted a 2Gb SD card full of MP3s and being able to listen to my music and the navigation instructions at the same time via FM is a great feature.
Hands free calling worked fine with my Nokia E65, though text messaging didn't, but the phone is not officially supported.
The mapping is still out of date, no matter what the fan boy with the top review said - there is a bridge in Glasgow that opened to traffic a year ago that doesn't even exist on the map, and a road that closed to vehicular traffic in Wyre Piddle within the last year that still shows ( as does the now defunct petrol station next to it ). But don't worry - I corrected these errors using mapshare so hopefully the missing bridge will be added soon (unlike what was said by the other reviewer missing roads don't appear until added by TomTom/TeleAtlas, but closures and speed limit changes appear immediately) and the road is now closed on the map.
To clear up one very important point - there is no where / no way you can tap the screen, drive the road and it appears on your map - you get to mark the location of an error, then change it when you get home. You then submit this to TomTom who submit it to TeleAtlas, who eventually will correct the mapping. There is a lot of misconception floating around about this feature!
I've made literally dozens of corrections, and hopefully others are doing the same. Then eventually it might get reasonably up-to-date.
The unit is easy to use, clear to read and altogether a marriage saver for me :-)
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