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TomTom Unveils Next Generation in Car Navigation: GO 910, 710, and 510

Mar 1, 2006 gps navigation, tomtom

TomTom, today unveiled the future of portable car navigation with the announcement of the new, smart and easy to use TomTom GO range and a complete collection of new and updated TomTom PLUS content & services.

“With the launch of TomTom GO in 2004, we created a new category of personal car navigation solutions. It was an immediate hit and we have since shaped and led the industry almost single handedly, outselling any other car navigation device on the market” said Harold Goddijn, TomTom’s chief executive officer. “As one of the best selling consumer electronic brands, we see a fast growing category that requires products to be robust and sophisticated in order to meet drivers’ needs. The product range we unveil today is the next generation TomTom GO, featuring significant improvements in design and usability, including hardware, software, connectivity and new content & services.”

New TomTom GO range
The new product line totally reinvents last year’s award-winning range and includes three models, the TomTom GO 910, TomTom GO 710 and TomTom GO 510. Building on the features that have made TomTom devices so popular, the new TomTom GO range offers:

• New cutting-edge design
• High quality, extra wide, 4 inch LCD touch screen – a world’s first in portable navigation, making the new TomTom GO range even easier in use
• Greatly improved GPS performance
• Hundreds of features and software improvements
• The new GO range comes with the free software application TomTom HOME. Serving as a portal it enables users to easily manage, download and store content from their computer
• Every new TomTom GO comes with the HOME dock, enabling users to connect to TomTom HOME through their computer
• The renowned hands-free calling functionality has improved further and the pre-installed Safety Camera database is now available across the range, making it even easier and safer to navigate to your destination
• The TomTom GO 910 is the first ever portable navigation device featuring multi-continental map coverage including the whole of Europe, the USA and Canada. It also has a range of smart extras such as a fully integrated MP3 player for playing audiobooks, music and podcasts as well as text-to-speech functionality