Lowest Price TomTom GO 720 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Decent GPS. Catches signal relatively quickly. Routes and reroutes fast. Now the many problems:

1. The submenus are infinitely deep and when you are done and want to go back to seeing your route, there is no "exit" button!! You have to go back as many times.

2. Something as useful as seeing turn-by-turn direction is hidden in a menu 3 levels down.

3. No way to create shortcuts to your desired menus to alleviate problems 1, 2.

4. Somehow, I see multiple entries for most cities (e.g., Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles CA). You try one, and then if you dont find your address there, try the next and so on. Frustrating many times.

5. There is no way to search with street names first instead of town/city. Moreover, tomtom does not search for neighboring towns if it does not find the address in the asked for town name. In California, town names change every 2 miles and most people dont realize the boundaries! The only reliable way to use Tomtom is to know the zipcode.

5. The bluetooth phone connection is unreliable. Few days back it completely washed out the synced up phonebook from the GPS and now wont let it back in. I have never gotten the text message part of it to work.

6. The POIs are old and not checked for correctness. Often I find restaurants listed which shut down years back.

7. The GPS does not show the address where it is taking you and there is no way to get it!! E.g., you follow directions to a shop using the POI search and then park your car somewhere nearby. Now you want the exact address to walk to but to get to it, you have to search for the POI again and make sure *not* to ask Tomtom to route to it. Showing the start and end addresses in the route should have been an obvious add on.

All in all, it seems that the interface was designed by someone who has never really driven in real life conditions! I find it so frustrating that half the time I just use Google Maps on my Blackberry instead of the Tomtom. Get more detail about TomTom GO 720 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator.