TomTom Car Sat Nav GO 520, 5 Inch with Handsfree Calling, Siri, Google Now, Updates via WiFi, Lifetime Traffic via Smartphone and World Maps, Smartphone Messages, Capacitive Screen, Black, Grey

Slow and unreliable.
Slow whilst inputting multiple stops. Mine crashed several times. It will only pick up WiFi when next to the router. The voice activation comes on when the radio is on. Voice activation doesn’t respond to requests.

Replace go5200
Works wonderfully. Can be very slow to start up at times but once it is up and running it is really working really well. Would certainly recommend – especially with its live updates.

Tom Tom likes and dislikes
The Tom Tom is a great devise but has glitched a fem times and The Phone funtion is NOT great the person at the other end of the Call finds it difficult to hear you, during a journey ,this is a problem! THIS stops it Being truly hands free one reasons for its purchase but it does get you exactly to whereabouts you want to og and refreshes very Quick something i like ! I purchased this because i wanted two to Toms svarede between two vehicles on a long trip abroad .we also had a garmin sat nav Thatcher Washington AS good for navigation but i preferencer the ease of USA of the Tom Tom !

voice recognition is poor compaired to google
Although the voice recognition is poor I still much preferer to use compared to google maps. You do get a bit of reflection off the screen when sunny and mounted on the windscreen.

Excellent kit exactly what I needed.
Having upgraded from an earlier version, I like the larger screen, the software is different and is taking some time to get used to ( it’s more to do with wiping my old brain memory) The docking type mount is better as you only have to remove the unit from the mount without disconnecting the power cable

Best Sat Nav I have had to date
I have used this several times to go across Europe now and I am well impressed with it’s functionality. The traffic and route delay function is particularly good, especially the re-route and how much time you will save display. You can choose to turn off the set route and save time or stay on route and accept the extra time which is displayed. Seems to be very accurate.
One thing to consider is that is is set for cars, so if you drive a truck or van, check your route carefully. Unfortunately, it sadly lacks a button to remove idiots off the road.

The TomTom GO 620 Is a WiFi enabled SatNav Stand Alone system!
I have had a TomTom now for many years; even when they were known by another Brand Name. My last Stand alone unit I had bought in 2007 which had a 20 Gb drive. It still worked and I had kept it up to date, but like all computer equipment was getting a little ‘old’. I bought this unit in 2017 and am extremely pleased with it. The Software is also from TomTom and has a life long update on the unit. It is extremely handy to use with WiFi (didn’t need a SIM card model). And with the 6 inch touch screen is very simple to use. The latest ‘driving lane’ feature is also extremely useful. Money really is no problem when you are very satisfied with the product as I am. Worth every penny.

Arrived on time and I managed to get it at a reduced price 😱 Black Friday
Bloody awesome! So chuffed with this! Even though I can’t use the wifi on it. My old 1005 has a blank screen after I paid for up dates on maps and the good old cameras

First impressions Go 6200
Tomtom Go6200 arrived today. Set up, registration & speed camera update all worked well. I’ve seen some reviews about WiFi issues, mine was fine. What I think is misleading is when the Wifi is selected and password entered the device says ‘connecting’, but it’s not, you have to go to the next step then it connected immediately. The menus are easy to use. My old device you could select a destination by Post Code. This one does not give a selection, but the Post Code works fine by entering it into the address box. The speed of start up is impressive, as is the very clear 6″ screen. Having read reviews of the Tomtom Drive app, I’ve decided not to install it on my phone as my car has a bluetooth connection already, so don’t see the need.

Adding to the above after a few days. When our WiFi was quiet I decided to update the European Maps which is a large file. However the original got deleted, and the new one wouldn’t install as you have to have a map on the unit to install another. This led to a long phone call to TomTom support who helped me do this via a PC using TomTom My Drive software. Don’t try with Windows XP, but Win 2007 or 10 will do OK. My recommendation is to install a small map, e.g. Israel (the smallest I think) before updating a large map.

After a few weeks, I’m very pleased with my purchase. It functions perfectly, and all the updates are easy via my WiFi. I now also have loaded the map of SE Asia, without having to use a micro SD card.

Great satnav for when you are on the go
Been using the Tomtom 6200 for over a year now without any major issues. The satnav is easy to use and update. The traffic feature is great when you are on the go and it will look to find the fatest route whilst you are on the go and update. The device may be expensive but you get what you are paying for. I would highly recommend this satnav.

Good product and reasonable price.
Good product, a little slow bringing up Motorway junction signs. Doesn’t show heavy or light traffic ahead. In general a good product but just lacking in a few features that the previous model had. Recommended good price.

Great piece of ki
Excellent Sat Nav, so easy to set up and store information, and also just as easy to delete destinations no longer required. Lots of features to assist the journey, certainly the best I have ever had.

Great, big screen Sat nav
Great tomtom Sat nav with big, easy to use screen. Hooks up to phone pretty quick and reliably. Nice hands free features which work well in a car, not so good in noisy vans. Easy to update software and maps, just take in the house and turn on (so long as there’s wifi). Supplier sorted dodgy power lead quickly and with no fuss, no issues after this.

Nice piece of ki
Very good satnav. Best bit is that it’s always upto date as it connects to your WiFi and updates without having to connect it to a computer. It’s intuitive to use too. It also have voice control, which sometime says “I’m listening” and waits for your verbal instruction. It does this when you haven’t said the key words. I’ve not really got on with this feature, but I’m sure it’s great if you can make it work as intended. Another great feature is the ability to search destinations or make changes on your phone, and send it to the satnav so it’s all set when you turn Tom Tom on.

A pleasure to use.
I’ve had several months of use of this 6200 and found it to be an excellent product. This is my fourth TomTom and I’ve stuck with the brand for nearly two decades. I needed a larger screen but was worried about coming ‘down’ from a 9.7″ iPad TomTom app; I needn’t have worried as I prefer thi 6200. It probably has features that I don’t need but it is future-proofed, compared to cheaper and older models that may not be supported for much longer.

Fantastic
Best one yet. Bought for my father who is getting on a bit, speaks very clearly, updates on all the speed and traffic cameras, he can take calls through it via Bluetooth and the screen is nice and big.

eally happy with this Sat Nav
eally happy with this Sat Nav. Great screen easy to use. Traffic seems quite good so far. It does keep guessing where I’m going, to the most part correctly. If I had to be critical the voice control feature is a little poor. I seem to be shouting at on occasions to no effect and then talk radio has decided to activate it. So far this has been amusing as of no real issue. I would recommend this Sat Nav.

Does everything - pricy - can hang at times
Had it for a year now.

Tends to hang – probably got a lot going on as its a compliacted beast.

Does a great job getting me through traffic – would trust it to find the quickest route off motorway – and thats aying something

imely and useful live traffic updates
Likes:
* Fully independent, powerful, timely and useful live traffic updates;
* Automatic rerouting around delays where time can be saved;
* Operates stand-alone- does not requires a phone link to update traffic;
* All software, map and speed camera updates are wireless direct to router; no computer required;
* Lifetime free map, speed camera and traffic updates;
* Very flexible, feature-packed.
Dislikes:
* Software sometimes erratic- but always OK while en route;
* User interface not completely intuitive;
* Speed limit information strangely inaccurate from time to time;
* Voice control a little erratic;
* Windscreen mount places the top of the Sat Nav very close to the windscreen;
* Active screen area could be bigger- large black band around the edge;
* Some route bar information lettering is tiny and difficult to read.

This is a very impressive Sat Nav- my dislikes above are all minor. Its ability to detect and, where possible, re-route you around hold-ups and delays is not only powerfully accurate, saving much valuable time, but also painless to use and hassle-free. Traffic updates happen in the background via its own built-in SIM card and mobile connection- no need to link it to your phone, or even do anything- it just does it all for you and tells you where the delays are. Other Satnavs require a link to a smartphone to get the traffic information; but not this one. This is ideal for Pay-as-you-go phone users like me, who do not want to switch to a monthly phone plan just for traffic information on the move. The Satnav also seems very responsive, updating quickly and keeping up with changing traffic conditions well. It’s true that this Sat Nav isn’t cheap, but once paid for, all updates, for maps, speed cameras and traffic, are free for ever (or as long as TomTom support the device).
My old Garmin Sat Nav, although very useful, didn’t include live traffic updates. Having got stuck in just too many traffic jams on my long commute up and down the dreaded A303, I decided to take the plunge and get a new Sat Nav.
Setting up the unit was very straightforward. I entered my wireless router password, it connected and said that updates were required. This was understandable, given it was new and had probably been sitting on a shelf for a while. The initial update took around 20 minutes.
First time out with it and the maps seemed spot-on. It calculates the route, and any reroutes to avoid delays that arise during the journey, very quickly. Some roadworks near my place of work had started only recently, but they were shown. Other long-standing roadworks were also shown. I believe it also picks up timed closures for overnight roadworks and directs you round those, but I haven’t tested this yet. The arrival time takes any such roadworks into account and is surprisingly accurate.
Going home at the end of my very first day with it turned out to be the first real test of its abilities.
On the screen, roadworks and delays are shown along the relevant sections of road and on the route bar. Roadworks are brown, minor delays are orange, major delays are red. On this journey it showed a serious, red, delay approaching the Countess junction; it also suggested an alternative route in green to avoid the delay, labelled with the time it would save. I ignored all this and carried on, to test the Sat-Nav’s abilities. I shouldn’t have- the Sat-Nav was spot-on. I got stuck in a massive tailback. The Sat Nav tells you how long your delay will be, and it even tells you how long ahead of you the queue you are stuck in is. Its accuracy for both this time was spot-on- I drove past the obstruction just as the distance and time remaining went to zero.
Since then it’s proved its worth on several occasions. One time it directed me around a 20-minute hold-up via a complex route through Andover, which at one point took me over the clogged A303. I have to confess to feeling a bit smug and superior looking down on the queue of stationary traffic. The Friday before half-term usually means a slow journey home, but the Sat Nav plotted a very long route bypassing all the worst delays, reducing my journey time by around 25 minutes. Similarly, when there was traffic chaos in Basingstoke one evening, it routed me round the housing estates and back roads bringing me out at the next motorway junction down, saving around 20 minutes.
It also seems very quick to respond to changes. My Monday morning commute inevitably has a delay at the Longbarrow junction. Early in my journey, no delay is shown, then one appears on the route bar- for example, first two minutes delay, which quickly becomes four minutes, and then six minutes by the time I reach it. Such information can be useful for working out what time to leave to avoid the delay.
Going to 2-D map view and zooming out gives a good overview of where all the delays are. Sections of road with roadworks or delays are coloured appropriately and labelled with the delay time.
One morning it showed an extra speed camera on my route. As I approached the location, sure enough, a police speed camera transit van was parked in a layby, monitoring oncoming traffic. As I passed, the Sat Nav asked me: ‘Is the speed camera still there?’ with a ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ response. I pressed ‘Yes’, and it said ‘Thanks!’. A few days later, it did it again; this time, no temporary speed camera was there.
It pings at you as you approach a speed camera, but it pings at a reasonable distance giving you time to slow down. Also, you can turn off the voice instructions, but leave the speed camera alerts sounding.
The build quality is very high. It looks and feels a class product. It is supplied with a windscreen suction mount, with a neat ring to rotate to engage the suction. These mounts are advertised as magnetic, and indeed they are, but the magnet just holds the Sat Nav in place, not the mount to the car. The ball joint of the mount was initially very stiff, but this was fixed with a small squirt of WD40. The USB link goes to the mount so you can just unclip the SatNav and leave the connection in-situ. There is also a USB socket on the device itself, so you can power it without the mount. If purchasing this Sat Nav you may want to also purchase a case. It doesn’t come with one, and you probably won’t want to leave it in your unattended car.
You might ask: is the traffic information as good as Google maps traffic info? It may not be quite as good- but it really isn’t far off. If I was to learn that both TomTom and Google used the same data source for traffic info, I would not be surprised.
A satnav with no traffic information will always find the same route for the same start and end point with the same settings. However, with this one you have to pay more attention to it, as it will alter a commonly used route to avoid delays. Sometimes I’ve not paid attention and got stuck in traffic I could have avoided!
Downsides? Well, there are some.
Having used it for a few months now, I’m getting a good feeling for its capabilities and limitations. Its traffic information seems to be very accurate when it comes to trunk roads, quite accurate for non-trunk A-roads, but somewhat less accurate for minor roads. This is hardly a surprise; TomTom seem to be very good a processing traffic data, it’s just that minor roads are not monitored anywhere near as well as the trunk roads, so information on them is much more patchy. I believe that it gets most of its traffic data from vehicle smartphones (as does Google), and other TomToms, but this won’t work in mobile phone dead areas where you cannot get a signal. But even on trunk roads, it gets it wrong sometimes. Quite often queue lengths, start and end points are inaccurate, but these are very dynamic, so some discrepancy is understandable. It also seems that when traffic is moving, but moving quite slowly, as far as the Sat Nav is concerned this is good enough, and it doesn’t register it as a delay. There must be a break-off point somewhere, I suppose, for when a delay is a delay- for example, you have to stop at a red light so this is not a delay; unless the queue is huge, then it is. But this is nit-picking; on the whole, it’s very accurate.
Getting out of the business park where I work often involves a 5-10 minute delay and this has only ever been shown when the queue has been there for some time. So it will pick up minor road delays, but it takes it a lot longer. If you drive mainly along minor roads and are hoping that this Sat-Nav will help you avoid delays, you may be disappointed. If its suggested alternative route to avoid a delay is down a minor road, it often assumes that road is clear and that you can drive at the speed limit. This may be far from the case if the minor road is in a town or city and you are on it at a busy time. Another minor criticism is its inaccuracy on speed limits. Where I join the 70mph dual carriageway A303, it shows a 20 mph speed limit! It corrects itself after the first roundabout, and there is a function where you can tell TomTom the discrepancy. I’ve done this several times but all map updates still show the limit as 20 mph. I’ve also noticed that while the device knows where roadworks are, if these roadworks have reduced speed limits, these never seem to be shown, even where the reduced limit has been in place for weeks.
Its interface isn’t quite as intuitive as my old Garmin. I should say though, that it’s still not at all bad and that this is really a minor point- you’ll get used to it. So far, I’ve been able to get it to do everything I want it to do; it’s just that sometimes I have to Google the command first to find out how to do it! For example, to save a current location and give it name, you have to touch the pointer on the map, save the location to ‘My Places’; then you go to ‘Myplaces’ – ‘marked locations’ open the location, save it to ‘Myplaces’ and give it a name. Phew! With the Garmin, you just press ‘Where am I?’, and enter your chosen name and save it.
Some of the adverse comments about this device I’ve seen in reviews may be due to the reviewer getting frustrated with the interface.
Sometimes the display goes completely blank for a second or two when you give it a command. This is a bit disconcerting, but usually the display comes back. A few times it got stuck, and I had to repower it, but that might have been me being impatient; another time, the suggested re-route, normally shown in green, was on the route bar but not the map. After one map update, I was alarmed to discover that all my saved locations were lost. Fortunately, after power cycling they were all back! I should point out that it’s never misbehaved while en route; it has been 100% solid while in use.
The voice control seems to work well when there’s no background noise, but when on the go it’s a lot more hit and miss, mostly miss in my case. It takes a fair few seconds to respond, and often you have to repeat your instruction several times before it understands. Perhaps it struggles with my London accent? Also, the voice command menu sometimes appears at random, presumably because the device interpreted something from the radio, although I’ve never heard the radio say ‘Hello TomTom’. That said, I’ve hardly used the voice control. I find it easier to use the touchscreen.
There is just about enough space on my sloping windscreen (Honda Civic) to fit it using the suction mount. When fitted, the top of the device is very close to the windscreen. There seem to be very few alternative mounts available for this model to get round this problem.
It shows the fuel stations on your route, and you can easily get it to find one nearby, but it doesn’t tell you if they are open or not. Its accuracy here is not perfect- a service station on my commute has suffered a fire and is permanently closed until further notice, but the Satnav still shows it like any other, working, service station. If TomTom read this, it would be really good if the service stations could be shown open or closed, and even the fuel price. All this is available on line, so it should be possible to provide the info.
Another small criticism is the large black border around the active screen, unlike Garmin’s display area, which goes right to the edge. Also, some of the route bar information lettering is so tiny it’s very difficult to read- well, with my middle-aged eyes, anyway!
In summary, if you are looking for a stand-alone Sat-Nav that will tell you where the delays are and guide you around them where possible, then this is the one! If you do a long commute on trunk roads or busy main roads, like I do, and are subject to frequent hold-ups and delays, like I am, then this Sat Nav could make a real difference. I’ve only had it a few months and it’s already saved me more than four hours in total by avoiding delays. It would have saved me even more time if I hadn’t ignored it on occasion! In fact, if TomTom are reading this, why not add a function that tallies up how much time its re-routes have saved? It would be interesting to know!
TomTom have done a really good job with this Sat Nav. It could even save your licence, with its accurate speed camera detection. Although the user interface is perhaps not as intuitive as it could be, and the software is a little bit flaky, it is still very powerful and versatile- and you’ll get used to it. Having used it for a few months now, I find myself wishing I’d bought one ages ago- think the extra free time it could have given me!

This is a God send, as a commuter I ...
This is a God send, as a commuter I tended to go the same way to and back from work, I still do, but when the traffic is a nightmare my TomTom gets me home a lot quicker.

Accurate, reliable, and easy to use
I have been using my TomTom Go 520 since 8th May 2017. I’m as new to the country (UK) as this newly purchased sat nav. I am completely dependent on it and would not know where I am if it weren’t for it. It has not failed me since and I’m very happy with this purchase.

I would give it a 5 star but for some reason, the app on my iPhone is not speaking to the device in the way it used to in the beginning. I used to be able to “plan route” using my phone and just send it to device and the device will just automatically have the drive I planned but it’s not doing that anymore. Not a huge problem for me as I have most of my destinations saved on the device, but having that can save me some time looking for it in the morning through my extensive list.

Fantastic tom tom
What a great product.easy to set up and use
An easy way to update the maps etc.
This was bought to replace a tom tom that was nearly 5 years old
The suction pad for the windscreen is very strong

Brilliant, state of the art satnav.
So pleased with this purchase ( Go 520 wifi). The key thing is the wifi, as there are a lot of cheap Go 520s which are old and don’t have the ability to update via wifi. I’ve really enjoyed using this, and it updates via my phone as I drive so that I can be rerouted if a traffic problem occurs. I’ve owned about 4 Tomtom’s now and they’ve all been good. It is important to realise that Tomtom’s idea of a lifetime is only about 5 years, so it was worth buying the new model rather than buying the older and cheaper 510.
The device with its stand is quite heavy, and doesn’t work with the rubber pad/disc mount that I have used with my previous Tomtom. However the screen mount is very secure.
I would recommend this device despite the price, it just makes driving so much easier.

Update 15/11/16
I had to return my first device as it stopped being able to find my wifi, and also was not getting traffic updates, which was a major reason for my purchase. Amazon were brilliant and sent a replacement the next day. The new unit appears to be working perfectly and has updated via wifi several times. The device shows whether it is connected to your phone via Bluetooth and lists calls, data and messages as 3 separate items. It appears that within wifi range, it does not connect to the phone for data, presumably using wifi instead. In the car, there have been several occasions when it is not connected to traffic updates, but as far as I can tell this only happens in weak signal areas (Vodafone).
The information that Tomtom supplies didn’t make this at all clear.
Still very pleased having resolved my original problem.