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TomTom GO 730 | 
 enlarge | Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
Buy New: £247.10
Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2035
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 6.9 x 3.6
MPN: 1CH7.053.00
Model: 1CH7.053.00
UPC: 636926020046
EAN: 0636926020046
ASIN: B0018RZW84
Release Date: May 1, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 TOMTOM 730 BATTERY LIFE October 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Bought the product 730t model ,I have battery failure problems,and I think other users have this problem
Sent Tomtom back 3 weeks ago ,and still do not have a date for the repair to be completed by.
Only bought it Mid June.
If you require a tom tom that will never be on your dashboard,but away ,on repair leave,then the 730 is for you.
Back to the paper maps then
 Map Share and share alike September 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Quick and clear route planning, the wide touch screen is very good. Have used it now for several journeys in Scotland and England and very impressed.
The supplied female voice is very clear with good warnings of upcoming junctions. I've used the Go 730 on the M1, M4, M8, M9, M25 and certainly appreciated this model's upgraded junction advice. I was quite happy to use the 730 without seeing the screen, just listening to the instructions, which were loud enough to hear over road/engine noise, but the kids volume had to be turned down!
If you take a wrong turn (or your local knowledge is better) it asks you to turn around. Should you ignore it, it very quickly comes up with route correction, updating distances and arrival time.
As for the mapping. I'm a realist and live in a rural area. Most of the mapping systems on the net (Google et al) don't even spell my village correctly. So I bought this device with my eyes unblinkered, but very much interested in the Map Share facility where users can update road changes, location errors etc. Have input several corrections myself and watching with interest to see when they are implemented.
Bluetooth/handsfree to my Samsung SGH-G600 works well. It takes your phonebook across and I found it straightforward to use.
No issues with the windscreen mounting, the car charger or the computer docking station, but a plain old mains charger would have been a nice inclusion, especially at this price point. So one star dropped. The battery lasted 3.5 hours from fully charged.
So, do I like it? Yes. Recommend it for family car use? Yes. Map Share? You get more out of life if you're prepared to put something back in!
 waste of money. July 24, 2008
29 out of 36 found this review helpful
I recently purchased my first Sat Nav and after a bit of research I chose a Tomtom 730 Go as it had a few features that made it stand out from the rest, the main one being IQ routes technology. I decided to try it out round my local area to get used to it and quickly realised that I've wasted so much money on a feature that is utterly useless. Other people say that 50% of the time this feature comes up with a faster route, my experience after a month is that 100% of the time it finds the weirdest slowest back route ever imaginable. Instead of following main routes where there are no parked cars and constant traffic flow it suggests narrow streets with double parked cars to jinx in and out of while you wait to let oncoming traffic pass. Out of town is not much better, suggesting narrow windy B roads rather than more direct good quality uncongested A roads. I've now timed quite a number of local journeys and the IQ routes are always a lot slower than obvious routes. Also I have lost count of the amount of roads, roundabouts and junctions that I've found missing or wrong, some of which are around 6 years old and are marked on every other map that I possess, so much for latest updated maps due to the mapshare feature. The other feature that I thought might be useful was the advanced lane guidance, there are only a couple of roundabouts with four lanes of traffic in my local area but obviously not complicated enough for that feature to kick into action. All in all I wish I had bought an older more basic model.
 Superb July 3, 2008
17 out of 20 found this review helpful
Bought this last week and it was superb. Very easy to use straight out of the box. Love the new feature that predicts the correct route times too - so much more accurate!
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