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It works, but there has to be something better.

It does, mostly, navigate from one place to another. It is VERY interstate-centric. It's algorithm apparently has a strong penalty function for roads that are not limited access highways, so it pretty strongly steers you toward interstates and away from surface streets that might well be more desirable paths. On the other hand, it doesn't seem to punish routes through high traffic areas. It will run you through the middle of a busy city instead of taking the bypass even though the distances are nearly equal.

It's very hard to specify that you don't want to go the way it says. You have to find a point on the alternate route in order to force it to go the other way. Simple things, like specifying a city along the desired route, don't really work well. Example, from my home to a place 1000 miles away that I often want to go to, there are two nearly equal ways to get there. It picks the one I don't like by default. Telling it to go the other way isn't easy. If I tell it to go through a particular city it will try to run me off the highway and down to city hall. The only way to do it is to zoom in on a particular stretch of highway and put a way point exactly on the highway.

A very stupid thing about it is that it doesn't handle time zones. This device can't. That's really, really dumb. If I tell it I have to be in Chicago by 3 pm, it doesn't have sense enough to correct for the time zone change. It's going to put me in Chicago at 3 p.m. in whatever time it's set to now. If there are two things a GPS unit knows it's where it is and what time it is. From that it should be able to figure out the local time. It also should have no trouble figuring out the time at your destination. The fact that this one can't makes me want to chuck it out the window.

The internal battery lasts about six months before it croaks, and it's not replaceable without sending the thing back to the factory. Terrible.

It is pretty good at re-routing you if you ignore it, e.g. it tells you to turn right and you miss the turn, it does a good job of creating a new route based on your new position. I just wish it had a "stand down" control, so I could tell it to chill out when I pull off the road to get a bite to eat. I don't want to turn it off, I still value the map, I just want it to shut up for a bit.Get more detail about TomTom GO 720 4.3-Inch Widescreen Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator.