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User: RolandB (profile)
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Date Posted: 4 January 2008
Review: Tom Tom 520T

I am pleased with the ease of use and find setting up an itinerary a useful feature giving you more control of the route taken. The clarity of instructions, particularly when reading street names, is excellent. It is also useful to be able to add locations, as a friend lives in a relatively new housing development which was not listed.

However the “Points of Interest” feature is extremely limited. I live in the West Midlands close to Dudley and despite having a zoo at Dudley the POI tells me the nearest zoo is at Chester 61miles away. Similarly if asked for the nearest swimming pool it tells me to visit The Grand Hotel in Dublin at 182miles, by the time I had swum the Irish Sea I wouldn’t need the pool. The nearest library is given as 90miles away and the nearest police, doctor and pharmacy are all 175 miles away in Ireland. These are just a few examples of Tom Tom 520T’s very poor POI capacity. Perhaps we are expected to pay more to expand this feature?

If anyone has noticed this problem and managed to solve it please add a message here as I find this fault spoils an otherwise excellent Sat Nav.

Why are the full instruction manuals always on a CD these days? I found it necessary to print out the 83 page manual as I am setting up this Sat Nav for a friend who hasn’t got a computer.

RolandB


Score: 7/10
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