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this is not what other people had said when i looked under the 910 amazon reviews to see if others were having the same issues.which they were. so now we have sent our 910go to tomtom via UPS and they said they will send us a brand new 920 with another 2 year warranty at no cost. it took a long time and persistance, but we finally got thru to customer service with a reciept and they said our 910 is under warranty for 2 years. Okay.i'm changing my review, but can't change the stars.which is a bummer since sometimes things change. my main complaint was the customer service, which has improved in our situation. we had trouble even getting them to accept an official proof of purchase from the store before we could find our reciept.
as you already know.don't misplace that reciept.
The 910 would stop working in a similar manner as ours did.
i loved my 910go until the battery stopped woking and it would no longer power on.
Anyway we own the tomtom910go which they have said they will replace with this 920 model.
i will update this review if i have any other issues or great experiences as well.
People were on the reviews for the 910 saying they were told it was only under warranty one or one and a half years and they were told by tomtom "nothing we can do".
maybe those people lost the reciept.so the tomtom company goes off the date of manufacture for the product instead of purchase date.
It worked great for at least one year.my favorite gift ever from my hubby.
don't bother trying to get thru after work or on the weekends though.they say they are open.but i was on hold for hours on a saturday when i took another call and then clicked back over to hear the "hold music", and my hubby couldn't get thru many times.
The Europe map is expensive to download and a hassle to install. We used the unit for 12 days in Portugal and it was able to find for us secluded beaches, B&B's, restaurants, etc. This is the reason we picked the 930. My wife and I bought a GO 930 for our recent trip to Portugal. This allows you to download your entire MP3 collection on the unit, if you are so inclined, and so doubles as an iPod in your car - with a much better user interface (4.3" screen).Another great feautre is the Bluetooth phone interface, which gives you hands-free calling in your car as well.The unit also has the traffic alert receiver built-in, which means if you want to use this feature you don't have to buy an additional receiver for it.We highly recommend this GPS. When we landed in Lisbon it worked well again, taking us out of the city (we would have never found our way out with a map) and to our first destination without any hick-ups.
Out of the box it took us directly to the economy lot at Newark airport.
In the end the GO 930 was a great deal because the Europe map sells for $180, so we actually saved money by going top-of-the line instead of something that retails for $200-$300 without the Europe map.
It is also nice to be able to download different voices instead of hearing the boring robot voice all the time.
The main difference between the 920 and 930 is the 930 also has the Europe map preloaded.
- basically a lot of things we would have never found with just a map.The voice commands are excellent and make the screen redundant.
However, if you don't plan to travel often to Europe, the 920 should be great for you as well.
Here is why:The unit works really well.
The lane view feature, which shows you in 3-D driver's view how many lanes each exit has, is also great for complex interchanges.Another great feature is the MP3 playback combined with 4GB of INTERNAL memory, plus a SD card expansion slot.
At $450 the 930 is relatively expensive, but given all its features, the VALUE for the money just can't be beat.
I was testing it in familiar territory. TomTom 1M00.981 GO 920T Portable GPS Vehicle Navigator with Traffic ReceiverI purchased this product because I wanted to try the new "traffic reporting" feature. I never got there.Twice the Tom Tom told me to go in the wrong direction off the highway. If I had not known where I was, it would have told me "off route" and I would not have known why I was turning around.The system defaulted to MUTE and each time I turned off the car it went silent. I had to go into the system tools, a cumbersome task, and turn on the speech each time.I returned this product and bought another Garmin with which I am very happy.
With mild to moderate sun light it will be washed out.4. I was replacing two AAA's once a week.3. Better have an iPhone or the Internet, because it does not sort any restaurants. POI's. Battery life on blu tooth remote is just as bad. The most important feature of a GPS is to get you where your going as fast as possible.
8. It doesn't remember.6. While driving down the interstate if you are curious where the closest rest area is, I hope you can find a road sign. If you choose to drive during the day, don't count on seeing the screen. Mapshare is a nice, but does it work. On the way home we picked up a Garmin 750, and had it not been for traffic we could have made it in 7 hours and 45 minutes.11. Oh, don't forget to choose your destination again. Even if it does find a POI, there is a good chance you will not arrive within half mile of the location.
Looking for an italian restaurant. I purchased my 920T in March of 2008, so here is my 6 month 2000 mile review.Pros:1. Battery life is terrible. It's very unsafe while driving.7.
Not even close. More times than not you have to unplug the traffic antenna, reboot the tomtom, and as it's rebooting reconnect the traffic antenna. Speech Recognition no longer works after the newest firmware update.5. There are many bugs, and mine has locked up 3 times.
Traffic might work. Cons:1. Typing mart will not work. Acquires the satellites very quick.3. ETA. Hope you can do this while driving.
If you don't have a small pin to trip the reset your out of luck.12. It's a nice trick but it's short battery life takes care of this.10. If you enjoy a leisurely trip in the evening, with no regard for efficiency the 920T is for you.2. If you set it on your shelf, you can watch it magically turn it's self on at random hours during the day. 9. Typing Wal will not work.
TomTom refuses to allow or support the 920T. If you are looking for wal-mart good luck. At most you are looking at one hour.2. TomTom should consider this to be beta software at best. The menu system was not thought out. Please.
On a road trip from Maryland to South Carolina, the 920T weighed in at 11 hours. It has the same hardware as the 930 yet the refuse to let the users enable those features found on the 930.As long as you are in the United States please do yourself a favor, and pick up something with Navtec software.
It is a little quirky at first, but I wouldn't trade it now. I've used my Dell Axim in the past with Mapopolis. I am really impressed with this GPS. I also love the remote control.The only things that I wish worked better were:1. They went out of business so I needed something new. After a friend of mine bought a cheaper Tom Tom, I looked at what was out there, and I wanted the voice commands after I saw it. The FM transmitter - in a vehicle with the antenna in the front of the car works well, but if it's in the back of the car you can forget it.2. It doesn't recognize my Motorola i880 (Nextel) It will make calls from the phone, but will not update traffic with it or import the phonebook.Overall, I love it.
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