TomTom go 720 was a No Go

Unfortunately I can not write an in-depth review since I only held onto the unit for 1 Day before returning it. I bought this unit upon the recommendation of a Friend that recently bought one. I had an older Garmin C330 that has never given me a problem, But I felt it was becoming dated and decided I'd upgrade to something with more features.

First the Pros: Slim design and easily slipped in a Shirt Pocket when away from your Car. The 4.3 inch Widescreen was an added feature I liked as it made entering in data a little more easier. The Bluetooth was a factor in purchasing as was the MapShare feature which allows you to make corrections to routes in the system and then upload for others to use or download corrections that others have made, I believe TomTom is definitely onto something with that feature.

The Cons: I found the unit to be to menu intensive to navigate easily with, There is a feature that allows you to turn off some menus thus making it easier to find the Main Operating Menus (However I didn't test that as I was still learning how to use it) My Main Gripe is how inaccurate the unit was, My first trip took me a Quarter Mile Past my Destination, My Second Trip I drove Completely around my Office Building and it never stated I arrived at my location and in fact wanted me to continue to somewhere down the road. The Final straw came when I routed a trip to my house, Where I live you come up a road that dead ends at my street, Make a right and go 1/2mile to my house. The TomTom insisted that I take a Left and continues 500 feet to my destination in the Opposite direction from where I live. That was the straw that broke the camels back, I immediately removed it from my car, boxed it up and returned it to Amazon, Who by the way I can't say enough good about for accepting my return and crediting my account within 5 days of returning it. The BlueTooth feature I couldn't get to recognize my phone, But this may just have needed a little more tweaking on my end, but as I stated I didn't keep it long.

I never had a single issue with my c330 Garmin and will probably upgrade to the Nuvi360 - This has left a bad taste in my mouth and has made me rethink if I really should upgrade at all. I started reading some of the reviews on the Amazon website and noticed a few others that have navigation problems with the TomTom720, My friend has used his in several States with No problems. Maybe TomTom got a hold of a bad batch of processors or whatever it is that makes a GPS do it's thing. All in All I think I just got a bad GPS and would assume that most TomTom's are probably OK, After all thay have a pretty good share of the Market place and have managed to edge out Magellan.