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| TomTom GO 910 4-Inch Portable GPS Navigator | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
List Price: $499.99
Buy New: $349.99
You Save: $150.00 (30%)
New (3) Used (6) Refurbished (2) from $145.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  180 reviews
Sales Rank: 3613
Color: Black & Gray
Media: Electronics
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Native Resolution: 480 x 272
Display Size: 4
Includes MP3 Player: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 3 x 4 x 3
MPN: 1V00.980
Model: 1V00.980
UPC: 636926013529
EAN: 0636926013529
ASIN: B000F007K8
Availability: Usually ships in 4-5 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The best GPS money can buy July 17, 2006
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
Took the Tomtom 910 to Europe where it worked flawlessly. It acquired location after about 10 minutes in Switzerland and 5 minutes in Italy. The mapping is superb and very precise, even in remote locations. Spoken directions are right on cue, foreign language support is excellent as well and the Tomtom is very user friendly. Bluetooth interface for cell phone works well, the clarity of phone conversation is A+ and incoming text messages pop up on the display. Plenty of space is available on the internal harddrive to download music files, I suggest however to connect the MP3 player to your car stereo for perfect sound. Internal speaker is ok for navigation but not the best to listen to music. POI's are user selectable, you can for instance program your GPS to alert you for every post office on your selected route. The Tomtom can also handle multiple destination without problem, you can either program the unit directly or do the trip planning on your PC and download to the 910, it is the easiest thing to do. I agree with other reviewers, the windshield mount is not designed very well, you have to make sure that it snaps securely into the back of your GPS unit and sometimes you have to wiggle the unit until the LED lights up in order to charge your GPS. Battery life last about 5 hours. Readability is crisp except in very bright sunlight. The Tomtom 910 is a superb product that comes loaded with all the bells and whistles, very user friendly and programable to anybody's likings. Included is a very handy remote control, PC interface with power supplies as well as a microphone that can be permanently wired for your hands free phone calls. It is well worth your money especially if you need European maps on occasion. The days of feeling lost in an unfamiliar place are a thing of the past.
Fantastic: TomTom GO 910 July 15, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
This is a great unit. I purchased the TomTom Go 910 because it was preloaded with maps of North America and Europe. I am in Europe more than the USA so I wanted a unit that could get me around all the European countries seamlessly. Many units require that you switch European maps between countries, but not this unit. I can report that the unit works perfectly.
I recently drove from Lyon, France to Torino, Italy and then to Cameri, Italy. The unit worked fast to define the best route and got me to my destinations without any errors. In fact, in Torino I went to a friend's apartment following the directions exactly. When the unit said "you arrived at your destination" stopped the car among large buildings downtown and phoned my friend to see if he knew where I was. He looked out his apartment from the fifth floor and waved to me! The unit placed me directly in front of his apartment. And yes, it never lost signal even when on the narrow roads buried between tall buildings. I also noticed that in the small town of Cameri, Italy it knew every small road in town.
It is also interesting to note that the unit tracks your approximate location even when going thru tunnels (I had no signal but it apparently assumes you are still going the same speed). But after a few minutes in the long tunnels it stops and waits for you exit and then refreshes in about a minute.
Here is what I really like:
*It is very accurate and calculates routes very quickly. If you make a wrong turn, it recalculates in second and gets you back on the right track.
*Preloaded maps of Europe, and they are accurate.
*Alerts you if the speed limit drops and you are going too fast. In fact, I was watching it change as I passed speed limit signs (in Europe), and the Go910 changed within feet of passing the signs (how do they do that?).
*Alerts you to speed cameras (in Europe).
*Has a remote control that is very handy. With the touch of a button, you can have it repeat its last instruction or tell you the next instruction. Also can change volume and access all the other features.
*Signal strength is very good. I pick up nearly full signals when docked in my house, apartment (in Europe) or office. Of course, I have great signal strength in the car, even though I have one of those GM cars with the metallic coating in the windshield (my old Garmin GPS III unit would not work well thru the windshield).
*Long battery life, more than six hours.
*Speaker and sound is very clear.
*When you plan your route, it provides an estimate of arrival time. I found on a six hour trip it was within three minutes.
Here is what I don't like:
*The screen is hard to see in really bright sunlight and you are wearing sunglasses. Lifting off your glasses helps, but it is still tough to read.
*The windshield mount works fine, but the power connection from the mount to the unit is not working (the unit runs out of battery after about six hours).
*Didn't come with a carrying case. Sure it has a little case for the main unit, but if you drop it there will be little protection from a hard floor.
 TOM TOM is a NO NO July 11, 2006
15 out of 29 found this review helpful
I've owned this product a mere two weeks and after just 2 uses it fell apart. The screen froze and couldn't be turned off, causing it to overheat which than caused the screen to crack when touched. To make matters worse the company refused to replace or fix a clearly defective model and wanted to charge an ADDITIONAL $500 to fix. So if you've got the money to throw away and want to invest in a product that even its own producers won't stand by, by all means purchase it.
time to rewrie this review July 8, 2006
33 out of 41 found this review helpful
originally i wrote what a great device this was . yes it works . but like everything you need customer support . not only after spending 800 dollars for this device tom tom wanted to charge me more money to update the maps . the disc they sent me was misplaced so instead of sending me a new one they tell me its going to cost me 54.00 more for a new disc . with them its all about the money . yes the device works but they try to squeeze every nickle out of you after the sale its not good business i would never buy from them again . no customer service after the initial sale . shop else where....
It refused to charge July 6, 2006
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
I travel a lot in Europe and the USA, and thought that the best solution for me was the Tomtom 910 with all the maps pre-loaded, and purchased one during my last visit to the USA.
I took it straight out the box and it worked fine as it must have been charged at the factory. I thought it odd that no charge light came on when I plugged it in to the car lighter, and thought that there must be a problem with car (it was rented). When I reached home I plugged it in to the mains and left it charging overnight.
Next morning I again took it for a ride to test it out, and after about 10 minutes it turned itself off, and I couldn't get it to turn on again.
I had noticed that it rocked on the cradle and wouldn't sit tight on the connector, so this must have been the problem. The connector cradle it very flimsy and it fell off a couple of times, no matter what I did I couldn't get it to sit tight.
I took it back to the store, and they also couldn't get it to charge, and offered me another one. This time I checked it before I left the store, same problem, it just wouldn't sit correctly on the charging cradle.
I gave up, and bought a Tomtom Go 300 instead which works perfectly, and has a much better cradle design. which proves that "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
I simply do not understand why Tomtom changed the cradle design of their latest models 510, 710 (sold in Europe), and 910.
Anyway I also purchased the map of all of europe and a 1gb SD card, and still saved myself a few hundred dollars.
The new Tomtom have a serious design fault, don't buy one!
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