LAST AUTO NEWS – CES 2009: TOMTOM UNVEILS GO 740 LIVE
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This morning at the Consumer Electronics Appearance in Las Vegas, TomTom GPS alien its acknowledgment to on-the-go interweb connection: the GO 740 Live.
The 4.3-inch affectation TomTom GO 740 Reside will affection a two-way wireless abstracts affiliation and Google Local Search. Added appearance cover five-day acclimate forecasts, ammunition prices for added than 100,000 gas stations, and argument messaging capabilities with added TomTom users. The 4.3-inch display, 7.9 ounce accessory will activate affairs in the additional division of 2009 and should set you aback about $499.99.
Reviewers at CES 2009 are in adulation — if cautious. Without able testing, it’s harder to actuate how able this TomTom’s ultra appearance will be. Add to that the apocryphal alpha for the similarly-styled Dash Express, and experts are captivation off.
“You can’t absolutely examination a GPS while sitting in a appearance room, but this seems like a appropriate device, accustomed TomTom’s move against connectivity in it, and the accouterments architecture is stellar, with a aberration anchor for the bunched assimilation cup, and apostle barbecue in the back,” Gizmodo reports. “I would like the accessory to conceivably get some reside uploading of traffic, but as we saw with Dash, that is a harder affair to master.”
It’s aswell too aboriginal to barometer how altered the GO 740 Reside will be from the TeleNav Shotgun, addition affiliated carriageable marketed for business travelers that began affairs backward endure year.
For one thing, PC World notices the TomTom has articulation commands and map administration software, which the Shotgun doesn’t provide. “On the added hand,” they continue, “at barrage the TomTom will not acquiesce you to ascribe destination advice via the Web. With the TeleNav, you can blazon in addresses on a PC, and they automatically accompany to the Shotgun — a big additional for cruise planners.”
The TeleNav aswell has greater real-time cartage capabilities than the TomTom. Many experts were acquisitive to see HD real-time cartage on the newest GPS systems. According to GPS Tracklog, the botheration has been disability to acquisition the appropriate carrier partner. “Unfortunately, TomTom has not been able to attach down a carrier accomplice in the U.S. that would acquiesce for crowd-sourced cartage data, ala Dash,” GPS Tracklog says. “So for the time getting anyway, you will not accept admission to abreast real-time abstracts from added TomTom GO 740 users.”
GPS Business News does note, “Even if this artefact does not affection HD Traffic, there is an absorbing window of befalling on the U.S. bazaar today for TomTom. Indeed, its capital competitor, Garmin, which currently dominates the U.S. PND market, fabricated the cardinal accommodation — so far — to not advance affiliated PNDs and to apply its efforts on ablution its own Smartphone.”
For added advice on CES 2009, analysis out U.S. News’ GPS Reviews.
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