TomTom GO 740 Live 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable Live Internet Connected GPS Navigator Immediately
>> Thursday, April 29, 2010

There is no such things as a perfect GPS. Regardless of the brand they all have some sort of flaw (s). Now the 740 Lives is the closest one to perfection. I have tried the Garmin 265T, 765T, 885T, 1490T. These models have several things in common, overall the don't function very well. Examples: Touch Screen is very unreliable,even after recalibration. The touch screen of the 740 is very responsive and accurate
The 1490T when you select the option to avoid traffic while enroute it will turn itself off.
Beside the 1490T the speaker on all the other models is very low, even after turning the volume all the way up. The speaker on the 740 is loud and very clear, including using it with your phone.
I also found that the 740 Lives map is more up today than the garmin is, even after the update the Garmin to the newest map.
The Junction View of the 740 is awesome it will show within 0.5 miles before your exit and it will stay there until you are on the exit or ramp, the junction view of any of these Garmin will show only few seconds before is gone, literally you not even have time to see it.
One disavantage, and this is my personal opinion is that the 740 is a GPS for advance user, it has some much option that I think it can confuse anybody without GPS experiece.
In both the 740 and the Garmin is very easy to connect your blue tooth cell phone.
I have read some people complaining about the voice command on the 740, he/she said that youn have to touch the screen in order to activate it. This is not necessarily true if you have the blue tooth remote control for the 740, which you can use to activate it.
Something that a really love about the 740 is that when your making a turn and you have to make one or several immediate turn after that, the GPS will warm you with enough time and distance in advance, vs the garmin which will warm within seconds or yards of your turn
This is a cool option, be able to modify your own GPS map. EX: Add any type of POI, change or add speed limit, close or open road. There is a new gas station close to my house, which doesn't show on my GPS, with this option I was able to added it.
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