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TomTom Go 920T With European, USA and Canada Mapping | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
Buy New: £189.99
New (21) Refurbished (1) from £189.99
Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 2004
Media: Electronics
Fragile: No
Batteries Included: Yes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 46.5 x 32.7
MPN: 1M00.911
Model: 1M00.911
UPC: 636926018586
EAN: 0636926018586
ASIN: B000VS52IG
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Product Description
TomTom presents the new and improved version of its Go 510 with the TomTom Go 920 T. Its 4.3? screen is larger than the 4? screen on the 510, and this GPS is one of the first to incorporate voice recognition technology. The TomTom Go 920 T will record your voice and memorise your vocal navigation queries while you're on the road. You?ll be able to ask your GPS to calculate the shortest or quickest itinerary between points A and B, and you can even confirm or cancel an order, all with your own voice. The TomTom Go 920 T allows you to save step-by-step instructions of your itinerary, and you can choose between pre-recorded voices, the voice of a family member or your own voice to guide you as you travel. With a never-before-seen graphics interface, this GPS navigator gives a sleek look to its maps and shows building contours on the ground. The TomTom Go 920 T has several points of interest and the positions of fixed speed cameras in its memory. It's completely customisable, and you can even save your own points of interest and addresses or personal notes along the road or itinerary. You?ll even be able to get the latest traffic information through its TMC antenna. The MAPSHARE function lets you modify the maps that are stored in the GPS memory. You can modify road names and the direction of traffic as well as other elements, and send them to the TomTom community by connecting your GPS to your computer. TomTom users can receive new updates this way. In addition, this GPS includes a help menu to give you a hand in case of problems or unexpected situations. You?ll also find a direct-access Bluetooth-telephone function with a list of the nearest police stations and hospitals. But the innovations don?t stop with the GPS functions, as they?re also present in terms of design. The TomTom Go 920 T includes aluminium inserts for a comfortable touch and feel and complete discretion when it's on your windscreen. Plus, the TomTom Go 920 T offers a
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 Very good but doesn't do Greece September 19, 2008
Steve (England)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As many of the other reviews say the 920T is feature rich and many of them work very well. The satellite lock on is excellent, I've used the Navigation very successfully in UK and USA cities. It has flaws though, the menus are clunky, I've never found how to set speed preferences and as with most Sat Navs it can bizarrely recommend local routes several miles longer than the ideal.
What really annoys me is it's advertised as covering Europe - it doesn't. Well not unless Europe has suddenly lost Greece. Tom Tom won't even sell you an add on map for Greece (it doesn't do Malta either). So if you're off to Greece and counting on a Tom Tom to help you navigate - right now best forget it.
Voice recognition works only on one map!!! May 22, 2008
A. Poulter (UK)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have had my Tom Tom 920 for a couple on weeks now. I am very impressed with the functions especially the speech input for addresses.
However, be warned. The voice recognition software will only work on the maps for one continenant. ie If purchased in the UK it will work on the European maps, but not North America, likewise, if purchased from the US the voice recognition will work for those maps but not Europe. I have contacted Tom Tom customer services who gave me this information.
They state that there is no fix and you won't find any mention of it on their web site.
That said, if you are not too bothered by this you will not be dissappointed with the 920.
If you want to add music to the unit you will need to buy an SD card as the internal memory is almost full with the maps etc. You can then play the music through the car stereo system.
 Don't buy if you have a Mac April 22, 2008
Steve Oddy (France)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Do not buy this product if you have a Mac as the support team only have Windows tools to fix problems. I bought a new map but after installing it the device is "unable to store settings: file access error". The only solution from TomTom is to plug the device into a Windows PC and run a Windows exe. So I'm stuck with a device that either won't work or works with an out-of-date map. AVOID.
 920 T is worth every penny April 13, 2008
Samir Sinha (Hammersmith, London)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is my first Sat Nav and it ticks all the right boxes. Setup is easy and simple, the software works the very first time (no repeated installs - atleast on my Windows XP laptop). The GPS quick fix (via PC or laptop) is a really useful feature - it downloads the satellite positions for the next 7 days so that TomTom can lock on almost instantly to one or more of them. The GPS function itself is ultra-sensitive and very accurate. I've never been misled even once on London roads. The FM transmitter works very well with my Ford Mondeo - absolutely no issues here. The downside is that the windscreen mount is not too good and there's a little trick to fixing it so that it does not fall off - the TomTom Alternative mount should be instead provided as standard as its more reliable. Also bought a protective clear plastic cover on Amazon and a PDair Leather case on ebay. All in all - am happy with my purchase - despite the minor niggles.
 Great for holiday journeys in the USA, useless for the daily commute in the UK March 4, 2008
The Happy Space Invader
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
First the good. The software works very well, and the TomTom Home 2.0 application you need to get the latest updates is now available for the Mac as well as the PC. I found TomTom to be absolutely indispensible while travelling East Coast USA for three weeks and that was my primary reason for buying it. Road maps in the USA are difficult to follow (as the scale can change drastically from page to page), and TomTom got me from New York to Harrisburg PA, right up to the Adirondacks and back to New York again with absolutely no problems whatsoever. From that point of view, it was money well spent.
Here in the UK, the "traffic safety camera" alerts seem to work okay, but sometimes display the wrong speed limit or warn you of a camera that no longer exists. In fact TomTom can tell you your driving speed far more accurately than your car's speedometer and you'll be surprised how inaccurate the latter can be. TomTom can also tell you what the speed limit is for the particular road you're driving on (most roads), but again, the data is sometimes inaccurate, so don't rely on this. I suppose the golden rule is to watch the road signs, stick to just under the speed limit and ignore TomTom.
So, already it's starting to look negative and I'm only just coming to the bad features. First of all, the UK maps are horribly out of date. Many town centre road systems are completely missing (e.g. the inner ring road in Sheffield that was built between 2004 and 2007) and there are far too many places where TomTom's advice could either get you in trouble with the police, or even cause a collision (e.g. telling you to turn right or u-turn where the road signs say this is forbidden). In city centres, you are far better off switching TomTom off completely (or clearing your route) and following the road signs.
I have complained about this and TomTom wrote back saying that data takes a long time to collect, that they apparently send specially equipped vans around the country, but that they also rely on data from local councils. I will leave you to draw your own conclusions on that one.
There is a map share system, but it's horribly clunky to use and you'll be uploading your changes in vain, as they will never materialise into anything concrete from TomTom. Sheffield's inner relief road was officially opened last year, but has in fact been in use for a year before that, and the complete plans have been available on the loacl council's website since 2004. This seems to have passed TomTom by, so all you have are a bunch of roads that simply don't exist any more and TomTom thinking you're driving off road.
The traffic system is also flawed. Even when you do get updates, they are usually about 20 or 30 minutes too late. But the real problem is that these traffic updates are limited to Motorways and A roads so, even if you get a traffic update in time warning of heavy traffic, the alternative route proposed by TomTom will usually be far more heavily congested than the one you were originally following. So unless TomTom warns you that a road has actually been closed, you should ignore it. I commute from Leeds to Sheffield daily and find that I get far better advice from the local BBC radio stations.
All in all, TomTom is great for any casual journeys of over 100 miles where you're not too bothered when you arrive. It's a especially good in the US, as they muck around with their roads a lot less than we do. For daily commutes or any journey in which you have to be somehwere at a certain time in the UK, forget TomTom... use a map and listen to the local radio stations.
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