OK, so I noticed one of the most popular tags on this site was “rants”. I’m really not that negative a guy, though granted I did start this site to start ranting about a recent Dell experience. So I thought, well hey there are a lot of products I use that I also really like! Why not mention a couple here.
I just recently bought a TomTom Go 720. It’s pretty neat. Has handsfree with my phone, multiple methods of getting audio to me (via internal speaker, line-out, wired headset 2.5mm cell style, and FM transmitter), and an expansion slot for SD cards that I can put my Security Now podcasts on. The player is a lot better than the Windows Mobile player on my phone, so that makes me happy. It also has voice-activated commands! Yeah, I can talk to my car now. “Computer… navigate to…” almost like Star Trek. (oh god, I’m such a dork)
There is a feature that doesn’t work, but its because of my phone and not the TomTom. It will use the data plan on a PDA phone to update things like traffic. I’m considering buying a phone on the Bluetooth compatability list (scroll down and you’ll see a link for the compatibility list), but none of the PDA phones I’d be interested in do anything more than my current phone - which is just for handsfree.
Buy your own! I bought mine “recertified” - cheaper and works just fine for me.
