Hi,

Thinking about taking myself down to Halfords at lunchtime to treat myself to a Tom Tom Go.

At £299 the 300 seems my best bet but could someone tell me the main differences between the 300 and 500?

I dont go abroad much so UK maps are fine.

I think the 500 is about an extra £130 than the 300 and im just wondering what justifies the extra cost!!???

Cheers,

Mark

 

The 500 has additional maps and Bluetooth. The bluetooth allows it to connect to a mobile phone, and offers some good extras. It acts as a handsfree kit - using the speaker and microphone built into the 500. Tomtom weather is a free service - it allows you to type in any destination, and check the current weather and temperature. Tomtom traffic is a subsription sevice - around 50quid a year. It constantly monitors for traffic jams, and will re route round them. There are also other services to be launched.

the 300 is 289 in PC World.

 

Bluetooth hands free for mobile but its pretty lame imo, if i bought again id just go for the 300

 

Thanks guys.

I have a proper hands free kit in the car already so that would be no use to me.

does the 300 allow me to use the weather service?

Cheers,

Mark

 

i work for garmin (sat navigations) and i recommend the i3. £179

 

markyd3

no, the 300 doesnt as it has no bluetooth.

 

umm, yes it does Rick:

http://www.empiredirect.co.uk/conten...ke~Tom+Tom.htm

 

if it doesnt have bluetooth, it cant connect to a mobile to get a GPRS connection to then get the weather+traffic info

ive got the PDA version and i can deffo tell you youre not migging anything with those extras... TRAFFIC is SHITE even in london, and weather is... well... pointless

 

My sister used to have a

Tom Tom Went !!

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=158296

 

Paul J

Trust me, it doesn't - i use them all regularly

 

Tom Tom Go is now called Tom Tom Go 300 - NO Bluetooth/Weather/GPRS/Traffic/In Car Phone Kit

Tom Tom Go 500 and 700 have Blootooth/GPRS/etc etc etc

 

isnt there a new tom tom out ???

tom tom one isnt it called ?

matt

 

Sure is Matt

 

It will not do hands free bluetooth but they will connect to your phone and use the gprs for the other features, which is pretty irrelevant because as jim says they are shite

These also agree:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...233361-2219902


http://www.dixons.co.uk/martprd/stor...d&tm=undefined

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...VzdWx0cw%3D%3D

 

TomTom One:

http://www.tomtom.com/products/produ...143&Language=1