TomTom Car Sat Nav GO Discover, 6 Inch, with Traffic Congestion and Speed Cam Alerts thanks to TomTom Traffic, World Maps, Quick-Updates via WiFi, Parking Availability, Fuel Prices, Click-Drive Mount

Much more readable, the GPS has evolved and is really good. No jerkiness, easier to follow in complicated junctions. So far no bad surprises such as turning off at a critical moment. I really like that updating the Europe map when the GPS received, it divides each country up and updates each also separately, instead of one giant 8 Gb download as it was previously. I drove 250 miles in the UK than today 1100 km in Spain and all the speed cameras were exactly as indicated. Downside: it's very large and I wish I'd bought a smaller size. I'm tall so I can see over the top of it without a problem but it blocks the view for a shorter person when positioned on top of the dashboard. Pity also the travel bag ordered separately didn't arrive at the same time as I had to travel. I also don't see other world maps that I use such as Africa so I guess these have to be downloaded and installed. Very satisfied with the product and much better than using Google maps or Waze.

Every time I buy a new sat-nav, I wonder if this will be the last one and should I be shifting over to apps on my phone instead. I have been using TomTom since the very first Go model and for various reasons, I like having a dedicated, seperate unit for naviation. My car has an out of date, rubbish system built in (no apple / android support) - my phone has google maps and Waze, but when it comes to long journeys, I just like to have a proper sat nav that just does it's thing. My previous model was the 6" TomTom Go 6000 - it was good - served me well - although it was getting a bit slow but most importantly the battery was no longer holding any charge. I needed it for a holiday trip and the replacement battery I'd ordered hadn't turned up in time, so I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade to the 7" TomTom Go Discover. There were a couple of things that attracted me - my eye sight isn't what it was, so the extra inch sounded like a positive (as well as the higher res screen that enabled) and the 4x cpu performance also sounded like a good upgrade considering my 6000 was often slow at places like large roundabouts where you don't know where to exit. So, the device arrived and in many ways it's identical to the 6000 - the main thing being that any routes or places synced with MyTomTom are all present on the new device which is great. The sharpness and size of the 7" model's screen are a great improvement - not only is it easier to read the extra features such as traffic updates / POI's on the map, but you can see more of the surrounding map without having it blocked by the side bar etc. Yes, it no longer has it's own sim card for live updates but it's a simple matter to link it to your phone via bluetooth (you need to turn on internet sharing over bluetooth) and it then gets its live updates over that connection. The other new thing for me compared to my 6000 is that you no longer need to sync with a PC for updates - it has wifi built when it's on and in range of your SSID, it will update it's OS / maps automatically. This is a welcome addition for me. The OS has also been tweaked since my previous model - I don't know if it is specific to the Go Discover models but I had no issues shifting from the old GUI to this version - the main parts are the same and the new things are logical and easy to work out - I did not need to read any instuctions or researchign anything - I was fully configured and up and running in a few minutes. It took me loonger to work out how to turn on internet sharing over bluetooth on my phone. The mount is good and the sucker is large and feels very secure on the windscreen - connecting the device to the mount is slightly more fiddly than the 6000 as the connnector isn't at the bottom but is on the back so you need to slide it around until you've worked out exactly where it is - similarly the magnet holdign it in place is stronger than the 6000 so taking it off the mount also requires a bit more force but once you've worked out the best way to do it, it is not an issue (for me, it requires holding it from the top and pulling it down and forward). The functionality of the device is the same as any other TomTom if you are famiilar with it so I won't cover that - if you like TomTom's, you'll like this. Whether the screen size or cost can be justified is a personal choice - for me, where my windscreen is quite far from the driving position, the extra screen size is worth it and physically it is not much bigger than the 6000 so it didn't change anything for me in terms of storing the device or blocking my field of view etc. If you don't need / want a 7" screen, the smaler screen sizes would be just as good and cheaper. I did eventually get the replacement battery for the 6000 (you can find it on Amazon) and it was a very simple job to open the device and swap out the batter (you can find how to video's on youtube). That fixed my charging issues with my older device, however now I have used the Go Discover, I won't be going back to the 6000 so will pass that on to someone else.

Screen quality good and voice great, but routes it chooses are rubbish. Run the same route regularly but always chooses fastest/shortest route via narrow lanes with poor surface etc. Set up to avoid these areas but still tries to send me wrong. Set up for better roads etc. Changed options but still insists on sending me bad route. Dosent matter which route you choose from the options either, still sends me down the worst toute available. Sometimes the unit won't connect to the phone and when it does the traffic logo on screen tells me not connected to tomtom traffic. Wouldn't trust it going to a new place I haven't been to without first checking in a map book. Had tomtom go 600 before this And it was spot on everytime. No route choices to make, it had the best one straight off, got me there with ease and I trusted it completely. Still like tomtom but this one is in the bin as soon as I can find a similar one to the go 600.

My Go 6000 screen cracked, so navigation became a problem. This unit was intended to replace like for like. I had problems setting the new unit up, it wouldn't accept wifi access codes, and wouldn't connect to Tom Tom. I had to seek advice from the user forum, and learned it needed a GPS satellite fix before anything would work, and then things worked well. It doesn't suggest a destination when I turn it on, it has no local time indication, It runs the battery flat if I forget to physically switch it off when powered down, I don't like reliance on my mobile phone, Fuel price indicators are so far off that they are useless. As with the Old 6000, the voice control frequently responds to random phrases thrown out by the radio. CAZ zones have recently become an issue for me, and I don't understand why these are not regarded as Toll roads, which both sat navs are supposed to be able to route around. So Five years on, and not quite as good as the old unit it's replacing, but still much much better than using a smart phone in the car.

I bought this as I really liked the old tomtom I had. I tried phone based navs, but they just don't do it for me. So bit the bullet and paid for the 7" version of this. I connected to my phone, very easy, then discovered the App wouldn't do all the connections, I tried, followed all the videos, forums etc. Eventually discovering, the reason it won't is the features I really like, the Text facility, the Phone calls etc, have all been removed from all the new tom toms. The unit itself, it's good, nothing to get excited about, it works well, the voice command system isn't worth bothering with, cumbersome and with the phone features removed, pointless. I consider this a massive error and feels like its going backwards! I tried to get hold of support to help, OMG! Support for this company is absolutely appalling! None of the numbers work, took me days to get any help, even then is was a chat system. I asked why is support so poor? Answer oh its covid, We work from home now. So what! everyone else is as well, they still offer support. So if you're ok with forums and videos, its fine, but for a lot of people, it wont be. Be aware support is pretty non existent. After 8 Months of owning this, it’s completely died! It turns on and then dies! I’ve plugged it in to update it, charged it overnight, nothing. A few searches say it needs a new battery! After 8 months wtf! I have only used it a handful of times since I bought it. It’s now just a very expensive piece of plastic. Avoid at all costs!!!

When my old GO 6000 stopped working - I suspect from either a hard drive or memory failure - I had to bite the bullet and get a replacement. Which? recommend TomTom over other makes, so my decision was narrowed down to which TomTom model and size of screen to choose. I didn't like that new TomTom models rely on connecting via Blu-Tooth to your own smart phone to connect to the internet, so would be using your mobile data as you travelled. My old GO 6000 had its own built-in modem to independently connect to TomTom & Traffic services - very useful if driving abroad as you don't need a sim card from a network provider in the country you're travelling through. However, as I no longer drive outside the UK that would hopefully not be too costly using my UK sim card. I'm making comparisons with my 6" GO 6000 and this 5" GO Discover. You can get 6" & 7" models nowadays but based on my familiarity with a 6" screen I reckoned a 5" screen would be more than adequate as well as being cheaper. The 5" screen is fine and performs well, but with hindsight I ought to have bought the 6" version as that's what my eyes have been accustomed to. The GO Discover is significantly faster with a much quicker response in everything, but otherwise the menus perform much as the old model. So if you've had a TomTom previously you'll have no problems using the newer models. In use I found if I wanted to benefit from Traffic or TomTom services, I needed to connect my GO Discover to my Android phone by enabling Blu-Tooth, and to enable a personal hotspot in 'Connection & Sharing'. However, if as on occasion I forgot to link my phone, my GO Discover would work OK if for example I selected a destination from 'My Places' and drove as usual. The only thing missing would be the lack of heavy traffic avoidance and re-routing that linking would provide. In practice when linked with my phone, I found the amount of data utilised through my phone to be negligible, so my fears of running up bills for large data usage were unfounded. My old GO 6000 took hours to update via my computer, and often 'lost' its connection when connected via cable to the computer, meaning you had to restart the download. These new models don't need to connect to a computer... they easily update via your home wi-fi as fast as is your broadband speed. You can set it so that it only downloads over wi-fi and not your mobile data. Much better than using my old GO 6000. So in summary, I recommend the GO Discover, but would suggest you consider the 6" model over the 5". Personally, I reckon the 7" screen versions simply too big.

The key point to note about the new TomTom Discover Go is that the device no longer has a built in mobile phone chip to get traffic updates. Earlier TomToms had a mobile chip which connected automatically to get traffic updates. Instead the new TomToms has to link to your mobile phone via a Bluetooth hotspot to get traffic updates. I may well lack tech competence but I found it hard at first to get the link working. It took a couple of hours of fiddling around to learn the right steps. Moreover the link isn’t maintained after disconnecting and later returning for another journey. The paper manual with the Go gives no help and you have to go online. One problem I had was that my phone’s hotspot icon was not visible by default. I had to delve into settings to make it visible. Once you know the steps needed to set up the link it is fairly easy to do. When my phone was connected the Discover Go worked well and got the traffic updates. TomTom say the traffic updates are small and the data cost is small. For old TomToms with built in chips there was no mobile data cost at all. There is much debate on the TomTom community website about the company’s decision to use the owner’s mobile phone connection instead of a built in chip. Apparently the old TomToms used 2G chips and this service is likely to be closed down in time. Using the owner’s mobile should mean links will be maintained as mobile tech advances. I think TomTom badly need to create apps for phones which will manage the connection issues seamlessly. Or, alternatively, they could include a slot in the device so you can insert a simcard. Update 12 12 2021: As time passed I found the Go Discover increasingly lost the connection to the Traffic updates. It became so unreliable that I contacted TomTom support via an online "chat". They advised a system reset. This worked and, so far, still does a month later. It is very poor that a device I bought on 12 June 2021 should lose a key feature within weeks. One positive aspect of a reset is that all your saved destinations etc can be downloaded again if you have backed up to the TomTom online app. If I had known about the various problems before I bought the TomTom I would not have bothered. Either I would have used the free Google navigation app on my phone or bought the TomTom phone app which I have found pretty good when hiring a car abroad. With Google maps you can download the maps you need before the journey using your home wifi. Google reminds you when there are map updates. With the TomTom app you can get a 30 day free trial; thereafter there are various payment plans including £20 for a year's use - cheaper than buying the Go Discover! Most phone screens are, obviously, smaller than the TomTom which may be a problem but, on the other hand, using the phone on its own is more convenient than having to connect the phone to the TomTom for every journey to get traffic updates. Update 3 July 2022: traffic connections continue to fail at random intervals. Very inconvenient when journey is urgent eg a hospital appointment. This happens even on M25 where mobile phone connections are good. TomTom support can only suggest a reset, which is time consuming. Another irritation is voice activation. I don’t use it but you can’t disable it permanently so that the satnav switches to it when it wrongly thinks someone in the car says the keyword. Update 18 October 2022: I've given up using the TomTom Go Discover because the traffic connection is so unreliable. But I've seen the future. We hired a car in Italy in September 2022 which had Android Auto installed. You connect your smart phone via a USB cable to the car and your Satnav app (TomTom or Google) operates via the car's screen and loudspeakers. Worked well. There is an Apple version too. These systems will in time mean the death of standalone devices like the Go Discover. Update 22 April 2023: The operating system has been updated so I tried the device again. It is much better - connects quickly and the traffic reports are now reliable and don’t disappear. One continuing annoyance is the voice control. We don’t use it because it is quicker easier to use the keyboard. But you can’t stop the system from listening for voice commands. So every now again the system thinks it hears a command, fires up and says it doesn’t understand. You then have to cancel it.

I've always bought TomToms because of the excellent Traffic services, but have always found in the past that they had annoying issues - traffic connection dropping out, suction pad keep falling off, power connectors broken and REALLY slow software. TomTom Go Discover solves all of the above. - The software is now really fast with the updated processor - no more lagging. Much more enjoyable to use - The UI is the best yet, you can tell the developers have really thought about it this time from a user experience point of view, being able to zoom out and stay there (to see wider traffic issues) is a huge bonus - For those used to an always-on connection for traffic in older models, don't be worried that this version is now connected via mobile, for me the connection has been extremely solid via mobile with only extremely rare dropouts now - The suction pad has been massively improved, very solid on the windscreen now, no more falling off - The power connector has been redesigned so it and/or cable doesn't break anymore In summary, this TomTom is the best one I have bought (and I've had quite a few), just go ahead and buy it, you won't be disappointed!