Tom Tom Go 720 – a viable handsfree kit?
For sometime now, SatNav systyems have included Bluetooth hands-free kits, however the audio quality has been a average to poor and as such they have been useful primarily only as SatNav systems with the Bluetooth hands-free capabilities largely underused.
Tom Tom, with the launch of the Go 720 have improved the feature set and now provide a sleek slimdevice with a host of features.
Although there is a large 13 cm LCD touchscreen, the device itself is slim, so can be taken easily with you once you leave your car. There is an enhanced hands-free kit with a new quality sound system that links to your mobile phone through Bluetooth and includes optimised acoustic design with enhanced noise reduction, echo cancellation and an automatic answer feature to make sure that you can take your calls completely hands-free.
In looking at the SatNav features, the Tom Tom Go 720 has options that allow you to customise maps so that if you travel a route regularly you can indicate roadworks or blocked streets, or where street names change. These collections can then automatically be shared via the Tom Tom ‘Home’ service.
There is an integrated MP3 player or you can connect your iPod directly to the Tom Tom Go 720, and music or navigation instructions can be played straight through the car stereo through built-in FM transmitter.
This is integration of technology at its best and Tom Tom now have a device that may start to rival separate hands-free systems and it means that you do not need a variety of devices such as an FM transmitter, iPod connector and Bluetooth hands-free car Kit. Finally one little tweak that you my either like or loathe is the ability to record your own driving instructions with a customised voice such as your children. If you’re looking for a SatNav with built-in Bluetooth hands-free or indeed just a hands-free kit but would like a SatNav kit as well, the Tom Tom Go 720 may be the device to you.
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