Review on 🗺️ TomTom Go Comfort 6-inch GPS Navigation Device with Wi-Fi Updates, Real-Time Traffic, Free Maps of North America, Smart Route Planning, Destination Prediction, and Road Trips by Alex Smith

This is an overview of the product of the Revain Vine program. I have been using Garmin GPS modules on my travels for many years, both business and personal, so I was very interested in testing them. TomTom device. TomTom Go Comfort is a 6 inch touch screen GPS device. The box contained the device itself, a micro-USB charging cable, a 12V USB charging socket with a connector, a suction cup mount for the windshield, a washer on the dash to attach the suction cup mount, and a quick guide Adhesive circle on the dash washer, but I never attach anything like this to my cars so none of my tests include checking the clutch or dash washer. .The device had enough charge to complete the initial setup and since it charges via a standard USB cable it was very convenient and easy to find a place to plug it in while going through the initial setup and exploring the interface. oh do. The touchscreen is responsive, but unlike Garmin, which starts with a simple "Where To" and "Settings" option on the home screen, the system expects you to know you need to pull up a menu to do something, and when you turn it on for the first time. above, the 4 dot display wasn't labeled "Menu", you should have known what it was. The getting started guide was simple enough to understand that you need to open the menu and continue. The Getting Started Guide is multilingual, but I'm not a fan of the format TomTom used, where it mixes two languages. on each side. I prefer manuals with separate languages as it speeds up the steps and makes them less confusing. More than 2 GB of updates have been installed to apply to the system. This is an interesting TomTom feature that I have not used on a Garmin device before, but I really like it. After connecting the system to my Wi-Fi network and creating a TomTom account, I was able to start the system and apply updates directly to the device without installing anything on the PC. The updates downloaded quickly and it took about 35-40 minutes to apply. There's no setup wizard or anything else that would lead you to believe that something actually needs to be done before the device is up and running, probably because there really isn't one. You can use the device right out of the box and enter your destination into the system and get instructions as soon as satellites are found. That leads to the first problem I encountered. The search for satellites took a very long time, more than an hour. That meant the time was wrong and he had no idea where I was. However, the TomTom had significantly more problems finding satellites than my Garmin device. I ended up having to put the TomTom by the window for it to register and my Garmin finds satellites quickly and easily while sitting on the same table. I've tested this several times after adjusting my initial settings, cycling the device and never seeing a change in behavior. After applying system updates, the search for satellites did not improve. It took another 40 minutes to find satellites in the house. Fortunately, finding satellites in the car was much better and only took a few minutes. Once discovered, the device supports satellite connections very well. As part of the setup you will be prompted to use the TomTom MyDrive app and connect it to your GPS. It's the second in my user experience. Unlike the Garmin LMT (Lifetime Maps Traffic) model, traffic data requires a connection to the MyDrive app on your phone. Pairing my phone with a device has been one of the most difficult pairings I've encountered in the last 4 or 5 years. What should have been a simple pairing required 5 attempts, 2 app wipes and a GPS reset. Also, I had to turn on Bluetooth tethering before the GPS connected for the data connection to work. The connection for phone features like text messaging and other notifications works, but nothing else worked until the last try when tethering was enabled. I'm not new to connecting BT devices to my phone and I'm using a fully updated Android 9 system so there shouldn't be any compatibility issues. The pairing process relies on the phone scanning a QR code through the app, rather than the traditional pairing process used for most devices. I think this is the cause of the pairing issues. Here's another one I didn't like. If I wanted to use my phone as a sat nav and get the most out of GPS, I would use Google Maps and not need a separate GPS device. This is, in my opinion, the main disadvantage of installing TomTom. This drastically reduces the value of the device when I have to drain my phone's battery with a constant bluetooth connection and the app open to get the traffic data that GPS devices rely on to reroute traffic issues. The MyDrive app also has a number of bugs, the first of which is a basic premise. The idea of using your phone to plan a route might sound nice to some, but you can do the same thing from the GPS device itself, so it's not clear what the merit of this approach is. The app isn't really covered in the getting started guide, so it doesn't help clarify. Apparently the app can't save the routes or locations you're looking for, but it syncs with your TomTom account. It's weird why you don't see this in the app when it's supposed to be a multi-screen synced ecosystem. Routes created on the phone do not sync to GPS if the Bluetooth connection is not working properly, as I have found, even when I log into my TomTom account on the GPS device itself. Ultimately, the app doesn't seem to add anything to the equation other than chewing cellular data for traffic info. I was able to compare the accuracy and traffic data on the trip with my current Garmin and Google Maps maps. We had a bad accident on the way home which required a detour and the TomTom worked great although I had to plug in my phone to see the problem and detour around it. The redirect suggested by TomTom was identical to Google and Garmin and actually found the problem earlier than the Garmin device, albeit around the same time as the second phone using Google Maps. The route change was very quick and very logical. He calculated the time to the finish correctly and was very accurate. As with most GPS devices, you can save your home address to get home in one step. There are quick search buttons for locating parking lots and gas stations, which is a nice little feature. In addition, there is the possibility of recording a "speed camera" that feeds other drivers with a data stream about where speed cameras and red lights are located in the country. TomTom Go Comfort is a working GPS device. It suffers from a buggy and seemingly unnecessary application and pairing process. Once you overcome these problems, getting from point A to point B will be pretty easy and successful. The transfer of traffic data to the phone makes paying for a separate GPS device questionable when this data is included for free in Google Maps.