I received my TT 720 as a Christmas present and was very excited when I read about everything that it was capable of. The map functionality, bluetooth, and mp3 player are all great. But, now that I am starting to get a little deeper into the TomTom's capabilities, I am becoming more disappointed in the unit.
I have run into a few different problems that are quite dissapointing:
1.The TT POIs are very poorly organized. Look at any other GPS system to see what I mean. For example, there you can look for restaurants by type of food (i.e. Chinese). With TT you can only find the 15 closest restaurants to a location that you specify.
2. I have considered getting the traffic receiver but have learned from a helpful member of this site that the information is spotty at best. That would have been a nice addition, but with bad information it is hardly worth the $130 price tag.
3. I connect my TT to my car stereo via an audio cable. The directions and mp3 music can individually be directed through my car speakers. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, the phone audio cannot. Again, with the help of another member of this site, I have found out that TT recognizes the deficiency and may fix it at a future date. This is a clear oversight by the developers; the hooks are already there for the phone audio to be routed to the car speakers, it appears as if they just simply forgot about it.
4. Today, on the way home, I found another inexplicable problem. I decided to call my girlfriend through the handy handsfree bluetooth interface. I called her office and got the automated attendant and had to dial her extension. No problem, right? I'll just dial using the DTMF keypad on the TT. Wrong. When I pressed the button the unit simply displayed a message that the feature is not supported. If the feature is not supportred then why have a button? This is not only an oversight, but inexcusable in my opinion.
TomTom could be a superior product if they started picking up some of the slack. But, as of right now, it appears to be a great idea that was poorly implemented.
I have run into a few different problems that are quite dissapointing:
1.The TT POIs are very poorly organized. Look at any other GPS system to see what I mean. For example, there you can look for restaurants by type of food (i.e. Chinese). With TT you can only find the 15 closest restaurants to a location that you specify.
2. I have considered getting the traffic receiver but have learned from a helpful member of this site that the information is spotty at best. That would have been a nice addition, but with bad information it is hardly worth the $130 price tag.
3. I connect my TT to my car stereo via an audio cable. The directions and mp3 music can individually be directed through my car speakers. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, the phone audio cannot. Again, with the help of another member of this site, I have found out that TT recognizes the deficiency and may fix it at a future date. This is a clear oversight by the developers; the hooks are already there for the phone audio to be routed to the car speakers, it appears as if they just simply forgot about it.
4. Today, on the way home, I found another inexplicable problem. I decided to call my girlfriend through the handy handsfree bluetooth interface. I called her office and got the automated attendant and had to dial her extension. No problem, right? I'll just dial using the DTMF keypad on the TT. Wrong. When I pressed the button the unit simply displayed a message that the feature is not supported. If the feature is not supportred then why have a button? This is not only an oversight, but inexcusable in my opinion.
TomTom could be a superior product if they started picking up some of the slack. But, as of right now, it appears to be a great idea that was poorly implemented.
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