TomTom GO 1000
3 reviews
Excellent – We purchased one of these as we were planning a trip to Victoria and having never used one before we were very pleased with its performance. Prior to our leaving we keyed in all our destinations as far as our accomodation was concerned and things we had planned to see whilst driving around, and each morning just fed that into the machine and away we went. It performed really well and the display in the car and the directions given were all excellent. We were very impressed.
Good product, Very Bad Execution – The TomTom GO 1000 is a web-feature-handicapped version of the GO LIVE 1000 product sold in most other markets. The features advertised are not all available here, but that is not made clear. After months on the market Windows X64 support is still not right. If you have a PC running Windows 7 X64 and it doesn't work with the TomTom, you are out of luck for updates.
TomTom is also far behind the implementation curve on their web. You still cannot buy a map from their website, although they will accommodate if you ask - reflecting excellent customer service to make up for their inability to sell us something.
The updates system from their web is brilliantly simple but is limited to firmware updates and purchased map updates an dpoints of interest community content. Most "community content" TomTom advertises and provides for older models - voices, car icons, map share, etc are not available for the GO 1000 in Australia - just points of interest.
Speech recognition is laughably incompetent, where most GPS are simply challenged -- I am a native English speaker.
The windshield suction mount is good, the GO 1000 sits nicely on it with the magnetic mount, but how the cable fits into the holder is nasty. The proprietary USB cable doubles as the car power cable.
We Aussies don't get the lot but they don't make that clear. Some buyers may not care, but for those of us who do..."not recommended". Good display, Loud Instructions, bluetooth, customer support is attentive Handicaped web features in Australia, Proprietary USB cable, Web is not there yet
TomTom Go 1000 – Very good Device few roads that it thinks are through but arnt so bit iffy here. Mostly great device. Bluetooth dosent like my Acer Mobil Phone though. Loud Speakers, Clear screen Maps bit dodgy, Bluetooth dosent like Acer Phones, Cant get Premim voices
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Update at 2 years. The TomTom web is all but diabolic in its ability to remember you, but at least the voices and other things became available. Voice recognition still sets a new low in incompetence. Unusable in my case. With all the new products having lifetime maps, we owners of older products are getting ripped for $50 p.a. to update an otherwise decent bit of hardware They will not even offer a multi-year or other discount and brazenly indicate this is a discount already. Right.. Currently considering buying a Garmin replacement, on principle to cut my loses on maps.