TomTom GO 720 Review

Sunday, March 1st, 2009 at 5:01 am

The navigation TomTom GO 720 Auto Navigation System is very intuitive and so quite easy to use. All of the turn recalculations are speedy, and I find the screen easy to customize. The only real problem that I see is that the transmitter for the FM radio doesn’t bring in the sounds clearly. I’ve noticed that even when I am using a station that isn’t used that interferences will still cause a problem.

I was more than pleased with the strength of the battery and the length of time it took to exhaust. It was much, much better than I had anticipated. It ran a whole 4 hours.

Unlike like the complaints people have made of the higher end models of the TomTom GPS systems, the day and night screens worked well. I didn’t have a problem with glare and the day/night touch screen, so seeing was never a problem at all.

I like the way we were able to listen to the equivalent of the 15 CDs that we would otherwise have had to take on our trip, but a 4GB might be next on our list when we are ready to buy a new one.

The highway speeding announcer was an exceptional feature for our family because we have a young son who has just turned 16, and he is still quite an amateur at driving. It beeped and flashed when he exceeded the speed limit until he modified his speed. The sounds and lights were too strong to ignore, so we smiled each time he was “caught.” All in all, the product was a good buy, worth the price, and with the exception of the radio problem, it met our needs.

I found some more TomTom GO 720 interface images on the web. They are in Chinese inferface. Hope you find it useful.