TomTom has built a "super sat-nav" that it believes is "the future of driving". Say hello, directionally-challenged readers, to the Go Live 1000.
So, what does it do? Well, it gets you from A to B, mostly, but TomTom has crammed in a gang of advanced features, most notably a 5-inch, capacitive touchscreen display that lets you zoom in and out of maps using pinchy, stretchy iPhone-style multitouch gestures.
Inside, TomTom's fitted a faster processor that allows quicker route calculation (and re-calculation for when you get lost) and IQ routes, to more accurately calculate the length of your journey based on real speed data collected from other TomTom users.
The Go Live 1000 takes advantage of TomTom's Live Services bundle, which uses a built-in SIM card and mobile phone gubbins to download data over the air. Services include speed camera alerts, local five-day weather forecasts, and a system that lets you find the lowest fuel prices either in your vicinity or along your entire route.
The Go Live 1000 also comes with Local Search with Google, which lets you find shops, businesses and other points of interest in your vicinity using data from everyone's favourite search overlord.
Anyone who regularly gets stuck in traffic will be pleased to hear the Go Live 1000 comes with TomTom's HD Traffic service -- an add-on that normally costs £47.50 per annum -- free for a year. This, the company says, provides the most up to date traffic information as, unlike rival services, it covers both motorways and secondary roads and is updated every 3 minutes.
As an added bonus, the Go Live 1000 works as an audio player, so you can listen to audio books as you drive, and is compatible with TomTom Voices, so you have your directions read out by just about anyone from Dora the Explorer to Snoop Dogg.
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Anonymous 3 September, 2010 19:48
I have a Tom Tom One XL T now for about two years, but I must say I am very disappointed with it, using it on know journey routes, it very often wants to take me off the route I'm taking, then wanting to take me on a longer way round, a few weeks ago, I was in Sproughton, Ipswich, within 1 mile of the A14, making my way to Felixstowe, my Tom Tom kept telling me to turn around where possible, then directing me in the opposit direction to Needham Market to connect up to the A14, so in all fairness, I wouldn't want to trust it completely on a journey I didn'y know
Anonymous 5 September, 2010 21:59
and that is related to this story how?? Do you work for Garmin or something? LOL
Anonymous 17 October, 2010 20:23
Tomtom XL is a nightmare. I got my one from Costco and Im glad that they have a superb return policy.Its so slow its unbelievable. It takes 30 sec to a minute to reroute in London. My old Tomtom One original does the same in 3sec.
So I have no idea how fast this 1000 model is but I hope is better so that I can upgrade to a satnav with live traffic.
Anonymous 26 November, 2010 20:28
There is no comparison The TomTom 1000 blows all other Tom's out of the water. I have had a 1000 live for a few days now bought on ebay for £140 unboxed (bargin). It is amazingly fast and with a glass screen covering the LCD it a godsend. I always though that if i pressed to hard on my tomtom go 540 i could damage the soft lcd screen but now with the 1000 i have no worries. Guy's forget what you had before they baby is hot