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Tom Tom Go 710 Reviews

Tom Tom Go 710 Reviews

I had the same problem with the screen going blank and remaining illuminated as a previous reviewer. Couldn't turn it off either, and the handbook didn't help. However, by delving on the Tomtom web site, I found that it has a reset button, and bingo, it's worked perfectly ever since. Speed camera limits have proved inaccurate on a couple of occaisions, but each time the device has understated the limit NOT overstated it. It's also got me out of trouble on the M4 and found great alternative routes. Whatever, I think it's a great piece of kit. I've deducted 1 star because of the handbook.

Review: Tom Tom Go 710

I bought a 510 GO in March and at the beginning of May it was stolen. I bought another only to find the maps were more out of date than my original. I swapped it for a Go Tom Tom 710 as it was thought that this was more up to date (difficult to tell when in a sealed box). Sadly this was not the case. There are roads marked "unnamed road" that were correctly named on the previous device, and there are some roads that have been in existence for 3 or 4 years that it doesn't recognise at all.

Tomtom customer support is woeful. It took a week to get an answer from them after having suppplied them with every number under the sun and a copy of my receipt. Their advice was to buy the new updated maps. I would have thought that purchasing a brand new piece of kit, at full price from a reputable supplier, I would have been entitled to up to date software. This is not the case.

Additionally, the new maps are too large to fit on the supplied SD card, so I had to buy a new, bigger card. On trying to restore a backup onto the new SD card via Tomtom Home, it just tells me that it "appears to be a different device" (or similar words) and it therefore won't write to the new card. The card has been proved on a separate, different device.
So, the advice for this brand new piece of kit appears to be "buy the new maps, buy a new card, and even then you'll not be able to update it"
The device itself is very good albeit frustrating by having such outdated maps. Tom Tom Go 710 Review at Amazon...