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| TomTom GO 920 Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: $449.95
Buy New: $327.99
You Save: $121.96 (27%)
New (18) Used (1) Refurbished (3)
Avg. Customer Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 358
Color: black
Media: Electronics
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Tracks: Unknown
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 4.6 x 0.9 x 3.3
nv:Type: Receiver
Display: LCD
Expansion Slots: SD Card
Battery Life: 5 hours
Special Features: Bluetooth
Special Features: FM Modulator
Special Features: RDS-TMC traffic compatible
Special Features: 4GB internal flash memory
Special Features: Integrated Microphones And Speaker
MPN: 1M00.980
Model: 1M00.980
UPC: 636926018319
EAN: 0636926018319
ASIN: B000VLHN9E
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Product April 18, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have owned this for 3-4 months and Love it. I found this program called tomtom media center that allows you to play DVD and other forms on my tomtom 920.
Share map is great, some of the addresses in my town are off by a few houses, but a friend has a Garmin 760 that does the same thing. Garmin 760 is a good unit, but I liked the tomtom better for the other things like voice recognition and watching DVD's on it when waiting on someone.
I would buy it again and will recommend it to anyone
 TomTom is Poster Child for Bad Consumer Relations April 11, 2008
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
We have done some internet shopping and by far this is the worst experience ever with our purchase of a Tom Tom GO 920 portable GPS Vehicle Navigator. We tested the unit and it did all that it said it would, until we put it in the car and it fell of the windshield and cracked the screen. TomTom will do nothing except sell us another unit for $450. (the original unit was $460.) We have learned from others who purchased this unit that the larger screen is attached to the same mounting bracket as a smaller unit with no accommodation for the new model's heavier screen. The TT people were surley and offered no help to repair other than total replacement. We owned the unit for three days! And trying to get in further contact with TT, forget it...they are unavailable.
 Ok, not great April 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Pretty much everything has been said before. Mount needs to be better. Also, voice entry didn't work. Cust support tries, but still doesn't work. Had updates and downgrades and still no solution. Would have liked all features to work as advertised right out of the box. Quality assurance or system verification leaves some to be desired. If I shipped SW basic functionality that didn't work I would loose my job.
My Go 920 Experience Brooklyn, NY -> Burlington, VT March 31, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
After much deliberation I finally decided to get the TomTom Go 920 w/ the and here is my review. I put the TT Go 920 up against my buddy's Garmin Streetpilot c550 on our ski trip to Vermont. My TT came with software v7.220 with the 700maps.
Go 920 and its features I love...
-The remote makes using the unit about 100% easier when having to do stuff on the road.
-POI's near my current location feature (Not on the garmin, as far as my buddy could tell.)
-Smoothness of the tracking on the maps.
-Horizon view shows an extremely accurate view of the roads coming up.
-Rock solid window mount
-Auto night mode
-Superfast (re)routing
-Great speaker
-Notify me when certain category of POIs are coming up.
(In downloaded a POI list of all brewerys in the world and through it on and set a warning for Homer Simpson's "mmm, Beer" to play. However I would love to be able to tap the POI icon as it comes up in the map or in the right hand corner when it blinks and have it give me the information about that POI. Not details, but just the name of it. In order to see it you have to go to menu, POIs near me, and then (in my case) click the brewpub category.
Things the Garmin did way better than the TomTom...
-TTS on the Garmin was much better than that of the TomTom. (I tried both Kate and Susan) Example... when on I-91 the TT would pronounce it nah-eee-n-tee-one. When approaching any bridges the TT would say Brooklyn Branch or Triboro "Branch" instead of bridge. Come on now. Also, the Garmin would read to you the POIs name to you upon reaching it.
-Actual directions. The Garmin would warn your earlier about when to get over to the exit and actually say the exit number to get off. "Exit ramp at Exit 14 (exit name)" opposed to TT's "14 (exit name)"
-Tell you which side of the street your destination is on.
-The Garmin would actually warn you when your battery was getting low, the TT just stops and shows the battery low screen.
-When waiting at light with the road we are supposed to turn on in front of us leaving a shopping center the TT would tell me I was already on the street I should be on, where the Garmin would show us perpendicular to the road we were supposed to turn on.
-Sign notifications were easier to read. The Garmin would show you your next move prominently on the screen I-89 to I-91
Other things I noticed about the TT
When trying to route from Burlington to Smugglers Notch (our ski resort of choice) the TomTom tried to take us on a road that is closed during the winter months do to snow. I tried to mark the road as closed but it told me it could not. I presume this was because we were driving on the road for a good 20 miles already and couldn't just mark a section of it closed to upload to mapshare.
I just couldn't get my Blackberry 8700 to pair up for data on the TomTom, no matter how many settings I have tried. Handsfree pairing was a breeze though.
Now for a weird anomaly which I am not sure if other TT users have reported. I noticed that if I had my TT unplugged and about 5 minutes before the low battery screen would come on, you would start hearing weird cracking sounds coming from the speaker. Almost like there was an electrical short. Like the sound of unplugging one end of a speaker cable from the source and touching it to metal. Normal? I don't think so...
Oh yeah, what the heck is Car Preferences? It's always grayed out in the preferences screen.
Notes: I have done the same exact trip many times, however this was my first GPS assisted one.
If you think you wont like the TomTom maps because it doesn't anti-alias like the Garmin does and its maps have less detail, DO NOT worry. I got annoyed by the extra roads at times the Garmin would display. (You can always reduce the level of detail on the Garmin though.) Surprisingly I like the map view on the TomTom much better than Garmin's.
**UPDATE**
After testing out several GPS's, in NYC they all say Branch instead of bridge. This does not represent a problem with the GPS itself, however from the Test-to-Speech software that a lot of GPS manufacturers use. The software vendor that provides the voices is Loquendo. I would like to think that the GPS manufacturers would know of this and tell Lequendo to fix their voices to properly speak the words correctly.
Cheap Mount, Terrible Routing, Consistant Problems. March 24, 2008
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Keep in ming this is the second 920 I have had, we sent the first unit back to amazon because we thought it may be defective, as it turns out we are having the same problems on a completely different unit.
Using this on my first long distance trip mount fell off windshield several times. It was mounted after I cleaned the windshield with rubbing alcohol so no excuses for this one except cheap mount. Voice prompts just stopped working as did the FM transmitter and blue tooth. All sound just stopped. My wife called support during the trip and they were unable to fix this issue. after several hard resets it started working. Updated to latest maps using the "latest maps" guarantee and they don't all fit on the units internal memory, have to buy an additional SD card and move Europe or the USA map to it. We will be driving and the map will randomly show unable to write map data file access error.
TOMTOM just updated the application that makes the unit run to version v7.480 this version removes the ability to plan itineraries with the TOMTOM HOME application. I called support and they said they had to remove this function, but they could not tell me why.
I spent 16 days in Europe with this unit and when I switched to the European map I was prompted "The Computer Voice is not available for this map." Which means no text to speech, even though I kept getting this message every time I turned the unit on it seemed to function ok. I called support yet again and was told that I had to use a non English voice so when in France use a French voice. The only problem is I am not fluent in French so this seemed insane to me.
Overall I would recommend do not buy this unit, wait until the memory and map size issue is resolved so you don't have to buy an addition sd card. Maybe by then they will resolve the many many many many software glitches.
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