Yummy: TomTom GO 740 Live is a traffic enabling unit with the connection of GPS and it offers minute to minute traffic updates. Other features available are weather forecasts, fuel prices, and Local Search powered by Google. Map Share and IQ Routes are the newly introduced technologies that allow map data to update with the latest details. Bluetooth hands-free calling and voice command help the driver to keep both hands on the wheel.

Oops: Route calculations process is a bit slower and taking more time especially when searched at a moving vehicle. High entry cost only includes three months of service.

Specialty: Automotive helping hand, Audible assistance: Navigation instructions provider with Street name announcement are the prime specialty of the instrument.

Our Verdict: The TomTom GO 740 Live is a dynamic informer with some amazing features and fabulous information. Drivers can really become the driving force of the car with ample information.

Tomtom go 740 live price range: Approximately $313.99 – $399.99

TomTom GO 740 Live Overview
TomTom GO 740 Live is a revolutionary step for the roads and also it is the divine help that can reduce so many burdens of the driver by supplying almost all the information that are required for the better driving and betterment of driving. Some of the features of the device are unique and makes a great sense.

One of the most important features can be a built-in wireless data connection which makes the user easy access to live traffic data and Local Search by Google. Secondly, TomTom Map Share is that revolutionary device that provides user-generated map correction system which is a great help for map data to be updated with the latest and current situation. The speed of data collecting is also the never before ones.

TomTom GO 740 Live Best – Dynamic Design
The exterior of the device is handsomely created with the measurement of 3.4 inches tall by 5 inches wide. The unit is 0.9 -inch thick at its thickest point in center. The front view is represented by a 4.3-inch full-color touch screen with a 480×272 pixel resolution. One speaker is attached on the back side. The proprietary cradle connections are placed on the bottom side. A micro SD card is also available and additionally 2 GB card can be supplemented if needed.

Missing material
The GO 740 Live has not included the facilities of the Fold ‘n’ Go Easy Port mount. Rather, the GO ships with a car cradle with a suction-cup mount and a desk cradle for connecting the GO to a computer via USB.

TomTom rates the GO 740 Live’s battery life at 3 hours, which we find just 2 hours.

Earning elements
It’s the first GPS device to feature a built-in wireless data connection, so there are numerous different applications to the previous TomTom navigation units.

Different devices
The varying unit than the previous devices is the Local Search powered by Google, that makes easier and richer points-of-interest data at a greater ease. Now, businesses and restaurants search will become too easy and receiving detailed information about the results, including rating, payment types accepted will be simpler.

The GO 740 Live will also make a great change in the driving system by delivering traffic information with real-time flow data and will be searching for the latest fuel prices in the area, and receiving weather reports for five days in advance.

TomTom Buddies is a unique feature to share your current location with your selected friends having the same tool. Instant messages are also possible with the device. Quick GPS fix uses cellular triangulation to search the location of the unit at an unbelievable speed by connecting satellite lock.

The pricing factor is also offered with a distinctive style seeing the Slow down of the economy. Special offer of Three months of Live Services is included in the $500 MSRP, later on leaving you to pay just a $10-a-month subscription fee.

Additional adorns
Besides featuring live scores the TomTom GO 740 Live also offers IQ Routes, a routing algorithm that enables data from you at the fastest speed ever. Also it can perform the data gathering process at equivalent speed.

Prime benefit of this unit is that if the unit sees that a highway is congested with a massive traffic on weeknights during rush hour,  Then it will automatically ask you to change the route with some of the possible alternatives. So, the benefit is that you’ll be seeing the unseen with this device.

TomTom Map Share has a distinctively unique feature of allowing users to correct inaccurate map data and edit points of interest, and submit those corrections to be shared with other TomTom users. This facility provides an insurance and security of getting escape from the traffic problem or wrong address or route taken by the driver.

Hands free option with Bluetooth makes the drivers free from holding the phone with one hand and thus enabling him to drive freely. This feature can definitely reduce the number of accidents.

Pivotal Performance
The speed of the unit is fabulous and it just gets boots in just 4 seconds and achieves a satellite lock in about 49 seconds even in the urban areas.

Downside drawbacks
Routing is a general problem and is always a bit sluggish in all the TomTom devices while the vehicle is moving past streets while the calculation is taking place.

A wireless data connection has made a drastic change to the utility and functionality of GO. Traffic data are available in so simpler form and also by just pressing a button; the driver can make he aware of the fuel prices and weather changes. The simpler thing you need to do is to make a Google search while your vehicle is stopped at a place and you just have to click the data you are looking for.

Overall View
The GO 740 Live’s going to be the first tool that is specially developed for the car drivers’ that can help them in many of the ways like traffic jam information, parking facilities, queries about the road map, fuel prices, fuel station awareness, fuel consumption and also the prime information about Google map.

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