When it comes to satellite navigation systems, TomTom, is top dog. Its Go 720 was sitting pretty high on our list A for nine months as we set off to get it cut off its perch in our PND Labs last month, and it is still there, beating the competition hands down once again.
All good things eventually come to an end, however, and in the case of the 720 it’s finally quiet in retirement, undefeated, and replaced with a newer, livelier area. His direct replacement – the 730 – unfortunately was unavailable at the time of the review, but we have test driven the top-of-the-range Go 930 Traffic to see if TomTom can maintain his grip on the premium segment of the market.
At first glance, there is nothing significant that has changed with the 930 over the previous models. Its chassis has the same sharp curve on his back, build quality is absolutely first class and the soft-touch plastic all around giving it the feeling that quality is missing from most of its competitors. The 930 has a color change from the boring, gray, intelligent, sharp black before, but everything else remains the same – to be affixed to the positioning of the ports at the bottom and the short, stocky windshield.
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Turn the 930 on and the issue further. It has the same resolution 480 x 272 screen as the Go 720 and has hardly changed a pixel at the interface. Not that all bad – there was little with the way the 720 and other previous models is something wrong – but given the large difference in price is for the 930 – it is more than a little disappointing to see no more of a hardware upgrade.
The justification for the high price of 930 is that it maps from the U.S. and Russia are next to all of Europe, a Bluetooth remote control and TMC traffic information as standard. The 730 is cheaper but still cost more than the price of the outgoing 720.
What exactly are you always for your extra cash? The most significant upgrade to the new range is TomTom’s new pathing capability – called IQ Routes. What this means is that the 930T, along with the rest of the new “x30″ series, calculated routes that are not with the speed limit data alone, but also taking into account the real average speed of traffic on these roads.
The information is provided by TomTom users who have agreed that the information is collected, tracked and uploaded to TomTom’s servers via the excellent TomTom Home PC software.
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The idea is that instead of sending down streets that routinely rubber traffic 930T able to use some intelligence in the build path finding process, but also take into account whether or not you at the weekend on the road.
It is difficult to judge how successful it was until we spent serious time with the device have – we have only driven a few hundred miles with it so far – but what we can say is that on several test routes, the 930 selected significantly different routes to other PND we’ve tested. Importantly, while some of these routes were unusual, turned out not to be a poor choice.
TomTom has also been in lane guidance to the new range. It is a small addition, but a typically be polished. Here are detailed next turn icons to indicate which lane you are given to complex highway interchanges need – and it is by far the best implant we have seen in any navigation that is not only important motorways, but most of the smaller two-and A three-lane roads as well.
Another little addition includes the ability to quickly map the position of the locations of errors. This is made possible in combination with TomTom Map Share tool that allows you to correct error map, download it via TomTom Home and the corrections of other parts in the process.
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Apart from these improvements, there is the usual high quality TomTom tariff. The speaker is loud and clear and the screen in bright light too. There are automatic ambient noise and light sensing devices, full text to speech on minor and major A-roads and highways, an FM transmitter, a Bluetooth speakerphone, which can also read the text message, voice recognition that actually works, even in a relatively noisy cabin and a speed camera database installed by default.
The user interface is intuitive and also with the incredibly useful user shortcuts page, allowing you to set up quick links to what you need quickly. And performance in calculating the route and time to GPS fix is great – we were rarely left our thumbs are turned even for complicated multi-stop routes calculated, or during the 0930 Traffic GO scanned the sky for satellites.
It all adds up to an excellent navigation system and one that is clearly the market leader in all aspects. The only question is whether it is worthwhile to pay. The 930 is probably an exaggeration – the price certainly is – and on this basis, we can not really recommend.
But the model just below it in the Go 730, is more reasonable price, and is identical in all important respects. As soon as they are widely available, it will fall in price – and we will not hesitate adding it just on the A-list.
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