TomTom GO 630 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator

Works like a champ, very useful when traveling to areas that you are unfamiliar with as well as finding routes to avoid traffic and construction delays. Speed limit reminders are mostly accurate, only complaint there is not all roads have the data for speed zones. Display is large and readable in the majority of sunlight conditions. Database is good, a few mistakes noted after 60 days of traveling. Device is fast at re-routes if you miss a turn or decide to pass up a turn. Very few nags about "make a U turn" that is common to other manufactures software.

This is a great product at a very reasonable price. Has all the features I want. My old unit worked fine, I gifted it to my brother in law, and he's using it on his MA to FL and back road trip, and he thinks it is terrific. I have no need to pay for real time traffic info, gas prices or anything like that, so this unit is perfect for me. Large bright screen. Around $152, I think it was. I believe TomTom lists it at $299 or so. (few things drop in value like a 6 month old GPS does!)

Excellent model, for the most part, appreciably better than the Garmin 765T which I purchased from Amazon at a higher cost and tried for about two weeks, but which never was able to receive traffic reports as advertised. Garmin's technical support was weak at best and not able to solve the problem. Garmin ultimately determined that its traffic receiver was defective and told me that I had to return it for a replacement. Unfortunately, the traffic receiver was built into the power cord. I asked Garmin to send me the new cord/receiver first, so that I would still be able to keep my GPS plugged in and charging while in the car, but Garmin refused to do so, telling me I had to return its defective cord/receiver before it would send me a new one and that I could charge its model using the enclosed USB cable (through my computer). I took advantage of Amazon's return policy and returned the Garmin to Amazon for a full refund (Amazon's rep even e-mailed me a pre-paid shipping label). The TomTom GO 630 has a pretty vivid wide screen display (in your choice of 2D or 3D) and allows much more flexibility with respect to display options than the Garmin 765. For example, the TomTom permits you to display time to destination, miles to destination, estimated time of arrival, and speed, all at once or in any combination, while the Garmin model permits the display of only one of these parameters at a time. The Garmim model did have more categories of POI's (for example, it allows you to choose restaurants by type of cuisine) than the TomTom, so that might be of greater use to some people. The TomTom also occasionally shows streets that do not exist in real life, but I am guessing that may be an issue with all GPS models. Finally, it would be nice if, like earlier versions of TomTom GO GPS models, this model turned on automatically (when plugged in) when you start your engine. Interestingly, it turns off on its own when you turn off the engine. On balance, however, these are minor nits and the quality of the display, ability to set favorites, database of POI's (with the added ability to telephone a POI directly if you have your phone connected via blue tooth), connectivity and ease of use of the blue tooth - cell phone feature, and flexibility of display output make this a very good choice. There is also a nice feature that gives you the option to input your desired time of arrival and thereafter the GPS displays how many minutes ahead of (in yellow) or behind (in red) your scheduled arrival time you are. I have found this to be a pretty useful "at-a-glance" indicator, in addition to the ETA display that also can be selected in the set-up.

The Tom Tom GO630 is supposed to have great applications. The problem is with the touch screen. The unit automatically switches to the help mode. No matter what you do, the unit switches to this mode rendering it useless. This problem is not unique and should have been found by quality control, and a recall issued. Customer service is a nightmare! I was deployed much of the time I was trying to find solutions and the warranty expired. If you want to spend your time contacting customer service, buy a Tom Tom product. It will not work as a boat anchor so it is in the trash box. I bought a Garmin product and it functions great. I know now that I should have returned the item to Amazon right away.

We purchased the TomTom Go 630 because we were moving from Pennsylvania to California. As we drove cross country the tomtom would put little gas signs on the map when you were getting close to one. If we got off an exit to get gas tomtom automatically recalculated the trip to get you back on track. It was so easy to use and I would recommend this product to anyone who does alot of traveling and looking up directions. When we got the tomtom our screen was broken, but customer service has me send my tomtom back and replaced it for free and in less than 1 week. I love it and wouldn't want to be without it. It is coming in very useful driving around California.

Wast of money i wouldn't even recommend TomTom to anyone anymore (get a android/ios phone). This thing died and TomTom told me to get lost. i would have paid to get it fixed and gift it to some random person, but just got the two finger salute. Sorry TomTom your fail and its not like any of this stuff is useful with apps like Google Maps, Navigate and Waze. Disappointing.

I got this Tomtom because we moved to a new state and I was driving on unfamiliar roads all the time. When we lived in a familiar place, I could usually get away with looking directions up on Google before heading out - since we knew the streets already, you just had to make a mental note of a new street or two. Here, however, I sometimes had to memorize up to 15-20 "legs", which was hard, especially if you messed up at some point. On top of that, I was in the middle of switching my glasses prescription and could not always read the road names from far enough away, so I would often find myself just missing the road, or in the wrong lane for the turn... So, I decided to get the Tomtom. I opted for this one for 2 reasons: 1) Advanced lane assistance (which actually works alright, I guess, I ended up needing it a lot less than I thought I would) 2) Spoken street names Well, my first disappointment came when I opened the package. The way they want you to attach the Tomtom to your car is by a suction cup. Those never seemed reliable enough to me (shower caddies using those always fall, sooner or later), not to mention that in many states you're required by law NOT to leave the GPS mounting devices on your dashboard, and putting the suction cup on and taking it off all the time pretty much guarantees that it will soon lose its grip. I decided to research other mounts, and use the suction cup in the mean time. On the very first day of using it, it fell off the dashboard during a turn (not a violent one by any means), after staying put for 3 or so hours, hit my car key on the way down, turning off the engine... All that in the middle of a turn on a relatively busy highway, late in the evening - i.e. in complete darkness, and my daughter was in the car with me. It was one of the scariest experiences I had behind the wheel, it took me a few seconds to even realize what happened to my car, why it was barely moving all of the sudden, and I was so scared that it did something to my car, I didn't even have time to worry about the Tomtom breaking. Luckily, the car AND the Tomtom were alright, but I have not used the suction cup since. I've searched high and low for a different mounting device, and it seems that there are no good ones for Tomtom. For that reason alone, I wish I'd gone with Garmin, we've used their padded mount when we rented a car, and it was great - no "permanent" mounting required, plenty secure, perhaps a bit bulky, but a small price to pay in retrospect: with my Tomtom, I essentially have to throw it on the passenger seat and listen, stealing occasional glances at stop signs and read lights, which is not very convenient to say the least. Yes, I did find some third-party mounts that seem to replicate the ones made for Garmin, but the reviews here on Amazon seem to suggest that they might not stay put as well as Garmin's, limit the reach and tilt of the GPS, AND you still have to use the suction cup to attach Garmin to the device, if I understand correctly, so really, not an adequate alternative to Garmin. Then, more disappointments came. The biggest one is the "spoken street names". The fact that they even list it as a meaningful feature infuriates me. Maybe it functions better on more expensive models, but had I known how poorly it was going to behave on mine, I would have gone with a cheaper one. Basically, the spoken street names feature works well as long as you're on a highway or in the middle of nowhere. As soon as you hit a city center, it becomes completely useless, telling you the usual "turn in 500 feet", not only that, but often they don't even DISPLAY the street name until you're literally right there, giving you very little time to prepare, which in a downtown packed with one-way streets can mean a LOT of missed turns or risky maneuvers! My husband and I routinely find ourselves screaming at it for street names while driving. Then, there is the fact that the routes it plots are just downright wrong and weird at times. I do not know what kind of algorithms went into deciding what the best route is, but as I got to know the area better, I realize that a LOT of times it takes you on a a very convoluted route when there is a much simpler and faster one - in fact, I'm pretty sure that it's the kind of stuff that other reviewers complained about: for example, it tells you to take 3 lefts when you could have taken 2 rights (perfectly legal) to get to the same road, etc. It has taken me on a lovely tour of DC's inner city dead ends late one night, made me go past the destination and pull a U-turn when there was a light and an allowed/protected left, etc. On one occasion, it has taken us on a toll road when we told it to avoid them, and then on a toll-free road when we didn't say to avoid it. The mix-ups with locations are also not that infrequent, but I won't hold that against Tomtom specifically - Google has those locations mapped wrong as well. Just the other day we experienced yet another annoying particularity - we went on a picnic in a large park, and when we tried to get back to the major highway from there, Tomtom could not find a lock on any satellites for 15 minutes! I mean, we were right next to a park, and in a relatively rural area, but we on a road, not in the middle of the forest, and 5 minutes from a major beltway! Not exactly a desert... It did find a lock as soon as we got on the on-ramp, after we found our own way there, meandering about in the dark for 15 minutes or so - all kinds of helpful... Bottom line: it's an okay device to use on highways and road trips, but if not useless, at least very frustrating in city centers. The features are very disappointing, so while I cannot recommend a different model, this being the only one I have used extensively, I would say either get something more basic for less money, or splurge on something far more sophisticated in a hope that those features are more refined in higher-end models. This one does not seem to deliver what it promises. I do not use Bluetooth, so I'm afraid I cannot speak for that part of its functionality. And I'm afraid that due to poor mount choice, I'd have to recommend going with Garmin. I guess Tomtom could be fine if you just took it out to find the nearest restaurant in an otherwise familiar area, but if you're planning on relying on it for extensive trips and long periods of time, than I think the mount could prove problematic, and you don't want to be driving while keeping an eye on the passenger seat to see the map.

This product was so easy to use, and so well designed, even my wife could use it. That is saying a LOT! She is very anti-technology, so for her to be able to use it, and it to work effectively, is amazing.