If this your first Satnav you are in for an extraordinary experience. This machine is little short of miraculous. It has an astonishingly full list of features, but a few of the most amazing are:
Its connectivity. Jump into the car with your mobile switched to Bluetooth and when you switch the Tomtom on, it connects automatically and then confirms verbally that it has done so. Naturally you will have already downloaded by bluetooth all of your phones directory, so when you want to make a call, just press the phone icon on the screen, scroll to either one of several recently dialled numbers, or one from your downloaded directory, press the screen again and off you go. You can receive calls from the screen as well. You talk hands free of course...the quality is excellent. But you can also transmit your calls via your radio. The Tomtom broadcasts a radio signal to whatever frequency is not being used by any other station (you choose by tuning the radio up the FM band until you find a spot where there is no other signal. All you have to do then is input that frequency into the Tomtom when it asks you for it) and Bob's your uncle. Both the spoken directions and your phone call can now be heard over all the car speakers.
You can also plug in a 2GB secure digital and play all your MP3s via the radio. The quality is....well you know what i'm going to say.
What about what Satnavs are for? This is truly the cream. In all the time I've had mine, I keep trying to fool it by deliberately going a different route. Usually in less than 3 seconds it has a new route mapped out and off you go again.
The amount of information it provides on the chosen route is superb. It will tell you automatically the total distance for the route, the expected time of arrival, (which is updated constantly if you encounter lighter or heavier traffic than expected. It will beep if you exceed 30mph at any time, (if that is the trigger speed you set, it’s your choice) It shows the speed limit for the road you are on automatically and warns if you exceed it, etc, etc, etc.
I recently took it on a driving holiday to Majorca...It not only knew which were one way streets in towns on the island, it also knew which street numbers were where.!!!! How the heck does it do that.
On the way home I switched it on in the plane, (the stewardess said that was no problem) and hilariously, Tomtom advised we were doing a ground speed of 529mph over the Pyrenees and it kept trying to recalculate a route, advising me all the time of the name of each town and village we were passing over. Honestly, you couldn't make it up.
To sum up, if there is anything this machine can't do, I haven't thought of it yet.
Buy it. You won't be sorry.