Tomtom VIA 620 Review

A little history:

Tomtom GPS is a famous product of the Netherlands, and became leader of GPS products in Europe. Founded in 1991 and later in 2008 Tomtom buy TeleAtlas, and that's when Tomtom expand to many developed countries due TeleAtlas maps almost worldwide.

And this year Tomtom will make the breakthrough into the map provider for Apple's iPhone and their families. This is an historic point of being able to set aside rivals in the mapping that is Google Maps.

Now we will review Tomtom VIA 620 series is the highest series of classes VIA comes with a six-inch screen.

When I first turn on the first course is looking for a signal, I can not wait 5 minutes and it seems stagnant, finally I turn off and then on again, now only 4 minutes later gps lock.

Let's look at the pluses and minuses:

Pros:

- The screen is very large as six inches (800 × 480), perhaps the biggest for portable GPS today

- The screen is great, even under bright sunlight remains

- No signs such as GPS chinese / cheap, so you will not see the menu / WinCE distinctive sound made ​​in China

- There is an accelerometer, but just can not horizontal vertical

- There are eco route

- There lane guidance

weaknesses:

- From suctionnya, somewhat annoying because it is always embedded in the body, and is located behind so often in contact with the rubber hand and the table, this will reduce the strength of gum paste

- No sound when push the screen so sometimes we doubt, it has been exposed to touch or not

- The menus are too many and complex, so confusing initial use, if I may frankly, a bit long-winded, perhaps for those who like this oprek customizable so delicious, but simple for the user of course so not user friendly. Better to bury a few settings but multiply features such as multimedia.

- Can not sliding menu like mobile phones, so use the up and down arrows, except in browse mode map, new life can slide a finger

- The large screen makes it less tasty bagged and the battery can not last long, a maximum of 2 hours

- Can not wear maps as NavNet community

- Plug into PC no mass storage mode so need mytomtom, sync app which can be downloaded separately. This application is browser-based.

- There is a correction of the map, this is actually a nice feature, but the problem is if I as a user, I bought a GPS, which should GPSnya help me, I did not even help the GPS, TomTom does not seem confident with their maps so that the user wants help tomtom improve their maps. Except if I did buy a tomtom to fix the map, then this feature will definitely be utilized.

- There is no custom POI

- Large screen good? You agree that car SUV / Double cabin. But if a city car, it could be sight even be on the wane.