Comments on: TomTom Go 720 Lets You Improve Maps As You Go

By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:36:30 +0000

bought a ubd road map for $14.95 never failed me yet, and saved $500 by not buying a g.p.s purchased myself a few cartons of beer.Yes i am simple but i am Happy.

By: Ron

Ron — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:29:54 +0000

What about using UBD maps and getting it right instead of whereis/sensismaps.
A road near my place has had a piece missing even though it has been here for many years
RON

By: DP

DP — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:24:50 +0000

I found the best way to address this is to use the city as the major city and then the offending street can be found – ie use Melbourne to find a street that crosses Blackburn and Nunawading. So the idea is start with your “big” city…otherwise you can waster a lot of time..

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:59:25 +0000

Brian,

Im also baffelled by this silly design decision also. Why would they believe you would know the suburb first, then the street name. Most people know what street they want as a destination.
For example, you might say 100 South Road, which goes through about 10 suburbs. How do you know 100 will be in a certain suburb.
It annoys me, as I cant work out if the software engineers actually used the product why they would do this. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they believe that you live in USA and your not going to use the device to just go to the next suburb, but the next city...??

By: Brian Kimberley

Brian Kimberley — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:15:02 +0000

Read this before you purchase a TomTom

I just purchased a TomTom Go 720 and have found a major design deficiency in that you can only select by city first so if a street borders on an adjoining suburb then it is imposable to find the street unless you know what the adjoining suburb is, this floor renderers the Tom Tom useless unless you have a street directory handy.

I have explained this to their support and I found them a waste of time, this would have to be a problem for every TomTom user.

I am returning this to the retailer and will purchase another brand.

Brian

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:57:28 +0000

Have finally spoken to TomTom... they're saying it'll be MID-2008 before Map Share is enabled here!!!

Pathetic.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 06:16:11 +0000

I'll be returning my unit shortly... almost everything else is great, but the primary selling point of the 720 is the Map Share feature, which is prominently marketed by Tomtom and every reseller, yet it has been disabled.

I encourage people to complain to the ACCC about this obvious example of misleading and deceptive conduct.

By: karen svenson

karen svenson — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:58:10 +0000

We just purchased the 720 Go for Australia but have found that the share function has been disabled due to Sensis/whereis maps. But this was not advertised on the box that the function was not available!

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:02:53 +0000

I have a had a dealer quote Sept 7 to me in Australia.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:32:32 +0000

it is apparent that no one can give a solid answer. Even having a TomTom account and posting a direct question to them. I asked them over their 24hr response system on the 27th last month and still not recieved a reply. Hope this is not a continued support response ie NIL.