I wanted to buy the best navigation available on the market, but the most popular one. The price is not important. I want solidly refined equipment that will best meet my expectations. It is about Great Britain and a passenger car. I found a TOMTOM GO 6200 6 - GBP 319.99. Do you think that there is no better one on the market that is worth buying?
A friend also had a TomTom with a SIM card and praised it a lot. I don't remember the model (from 3 years ago), but in Western Europe it helped a lot in big cities. Indeed, without mishaps, it did not take place where the street was supposed to be, and in reality it was no longer there.
Thanks MARCIN.SLASK. I have already ordered the TOMTOM GO 6200. I wonder what the system with a SIM card is about? Do I have to buy a card or will I use this phone? If I do not have the Internet purchased in my phone, will I pay for using the SIM card in navigation? Thank you for the information.
The SIM card in this navigation is used to download data / information (to keep you informed about traffic jams and other disruptions and to modify the route). I don't know about the fees, but apparently the subscription is included in the price of the device. you need to check with your TomTom store / representative.
Standing in a big traffic jam, we never know if it is 500 meters or 5 kilometers long and how long it will take us to overcome it. There is no such problem with the tested navigation and we must admit that the TomTom Traffic service works very well. We are informed about approaching a traffic jam much earlier, when we enter it (because, for example, we have no alternative), the device will notify us how long it will take to overcome the congestion on the route and how long it is. In the case shown in the illustration, we still had 470 meters to the end of the traffic jam, and although we dragged only 6 km / h, we were confident that it would end in two minutes (red value at the top of the route bar).
Where does the navigation get this information? At the beginning of the article we mentioned that the top model of navigation TomTom Go 6200, tested by us, is equipped with a SIM card as standard, it is permanently built into the device and immediately active. Thanks to this solution, during the journey, the navigation automatically collects data concerning, for example, the current situation on the road, informing about traffic jams or other obstacles, such as road works, detours, etc. An example of this type of information is shown in the picture above.
In cheaper devices from this manufacturer without a built-in SIM card, data on traffic jams, obstructions, etc. are downloaded via the smartphone with which the navigation is paired (the phone must have access to the internet via cellular networks). This means a monthly data consumption of around 7 MB.
In the case of the device described here, however, we do not have to worry about this limit, because all current road information is downloaded via the internal GPRS module (this is what the built-in SIM card is used for). We will not use this module for any internet communication, anyway GPRS is too slow a standard for data transmission over the cellular network to be suitable, for example, for surfing, but it perfectly fulfills its role as an interface that allows you to receive small portions of data with traffic information. We have this function included in the price of the device, we do not pay a penny for access to mobile networks and road data transmission through them. The user does not even know with which operator his navigation is currently connected. It doesn't matter that TomTom Traffic and other services that require connection and data reception just work.
