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TomTom GO 540 Satellite Navigation System - LIVE UK & ROI | 
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| Brand: TomTom
Category: CE
Buy New: £225.59
New (24) from £225.59
Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1240
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 7.1 x 3.5
MPN: 1CF5.013.00
Model: 1CF5.013.00
UPC: 636926021074
EAN: 0636926021074
ASIN: B001F0Q91S
Release Date: November 7, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | TomTom LIVE Services - HD Traffic, Safety Camera Alerts, Real Time Fuel Prices, Local Search with Google, TomTom Weather, TomTom QuickGPSfix | | • | Voice Command & Control | | • | Hands-free Calling | | • | IQ Routes, the smartest route any time of the day | | • | Advanced Lane Guidance, for navigating difficult junctions | | • | Active Dock | | • | Maps of UK & ROI |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 tomtom go 540 live November 7, 2008
38 out of 38 found this review helpful
TomTom GO 540 LIVE UK & ROI
purchased this unit from another website. mine came with a tomtom promotional 30 fuel voucher. i think this should be the case with most of the first lot of 540's. check before buying in any case!
this unit is slimmer than a 520 that i had briefly a couple of months ago.
main changes i can notice are the overall UI icons have changed...which doesnt really bother me too much. the IQ routes service is pretty good, it does take you to places via different routes depending on day and time of day which is pretty handy. the lane assist feature is good too if you have trouble getting into the correct lane at motorway junctions and the like. all 3 of these features are available on the 530 i believe.
one major addition to this unit is the addition of LIVE services. on previous units if u wanted weather or traffic services you would have to allow the unit to use the GPRS connection on your mobile phone via bluetooth. however now, the unit has a sim in it already so it can connect to the server itself and access weather and traffic information. the traffic information is also the new traffic HD service which is meant to be much more accurate and up to date than previous sources such as TMC etc etc. i have found this to be true, it is more accurate than the traffic i used to receive via GPRS on the 520 unit i had. note that these LIVE services are free for 3 months i think, after that there is a 7.99 MONTHLY charge.
the google search feature is also useful. you can be anywhere and just use the unit to search using google to find anything eg restaurants. then the unit will direct you to that place!
the change that i am most thankful for is the new windscreen dock. to stick it to the windscreen, you dont just slap it on the windscreen. there is a rubber bezel that you must twist, this then causes the suction cup to stick very well to the windscreen (or dashboard). the cigarette power cable then connects to the dock rather than the unit. i used to find the old docks fairly flimsy and it was always difficult to take the unit and the dock apart and put them back together with any kind of haste. with the 540 it is very simple to attach/detach the gps unit from the dock. the unit actually clicks into place so it feels a lot sturdier.
having a few problems getting the tomtom home software to run properly with my mac (10.5.5). it is unable to recognise some of the files that it downloads in order to update the unit and hence cant unzip them. so mac users be careful!
also note that it is only the 940 that now has an FM transmitter. this unit DOES NOT have an fm transmitter.
overall i think it is a very good unit. havent really got any major complaints about it (other than the mac problem). i am really pleased with the new dock and the fact that it doesnt need my phone to get the traffic info so i think it is worth the extra 's!
TomTom Go Live - the ultimate Sat Nav November 15, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I held back from buying the new GO LIVE sat nav from TomTom thinking it might be full of gimmicks, but now I have one I am SO pleased. I travel a lot with my job, and it made an immediate difference to how I drive and plan my journeys. I bought the 540 version.
Local Search with Google: this is truly awesome and almost makes the previous POI redundant. It enables you to find just about any named place you want to go, local, or in any town or city. Just type in the name (Sainsbury,Odeon,Fitness First,Waterstones,anywhere) and lists appear showing location, address and contact no's so you can pick one and let TomTom take you there. It's truly fantastic.
HD Traffic. This has to be the best yet. It informs you of realtime traffic delays and enables you to decide whether you want to wait in a queue or take a different route. A 5 minute delay might be better than a 20 minute re-route so you might decide to stay in the queue. A 20 minute re-route might be better than a 1 hour queue, so you might choose to avoid the delay. It's not about 'never' sitting in traffic, it's about making your own decisions with the information presented to you. Very clever!
Fuel Prices: Excellent, with lots of choices and real pricing and of course TomTom will take you to the station of your choice.
IQ Routes: Made a noticeable difference to my journeys when compared to my basic TomTom model. This can only get better as TomTom collate more and more journeys each day to give you better routes from A to B.
Cameras: It's good to know that Road Angel are involved now giving information on portable speed cameras. MapShare allows you to update this information if you find one while you are driving and warn others in a matter of minutes.
In conclusion, the GO LIVE is truly impressive, leaving other brands like Garmin and Navman way behind and in the doldrums. Don't hold back..GO GET!
520+530=540 September 13, 2008
75 out of 89 found this review helpful
Less than 3 months after the launch of the previous model, the 530, Tom Tom have already superseded it. This will do nothing to calm the many angry people who were fuming when they bought a 530 and found that all the so called "new" features on the 530 already existed on the 520 and could be accessed just by plugging it into the net and updating it. Many people fell for it and went and bought a 530 for 100 more than the 520 but yes, you really can get the lane guidance and IQ routes on the 520, just as i have on my 520, just by connecting to Tom Tom home and downloading the free firmware updates and a new set of maps for free (if you update within your first 30 days of owning it).
Now along comes the 540 and it looks like Tom Tom are at it again. How many times do they think people will keep buying the same device under a new name? This is nothing more than a Tom Tom 530 (which was just a Tom Tom 520) with 2 new features. Firstly, it updates the IQ routes 24/7 so you'll always have the latest and best routes rather than just the ones pre-programmed into the 530 that were based on historical data. The only other difference is that it now tells you the latest fuel prices at fuel stations. Those two things are both handy but how many times will people want to keep upgrading just to get a couple of new features that they'll probably never use? And yes, i know i'm reviewing this item before it's release but i've already seen it.
Sadly, the 2 age old problems remain - it's incompatible many mobile phones and the maps are still about 5 years out of date. Major dual carriageways running for 50+ miles by me STILL aren't on here, despite them having been there now for over 2 years and the blue prints being in the public domain for 4+ years. Apparantly i spend most of my time driving through fields. Who knows, maybe they'll add those roads soon then release this again as the 550...
TomTom GO 540 Live November 15, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have had the 'TomTom Go 540 Live' for one week now and have just been on holiday with it to Cornwall (I live in Kent) I will not list all the features as above, but will agree with all three reviews before me. The unit is brilliant.
I have had a few issues with my unit though, as mentioned already, syncing with a Mac can and does prove tricky. Also some well established speed cameras did not appear on the TomTom even after updating it online 5 times (which for me is not a huge issue but still a bit annoying) and finally "MY" 540 seems to have issues when trying to switch between night and day mode. Again, this is not a huge problem and is pure laziness to want it to change without having to press a button. One more issue, this is again only minor; I had my previous TomTom hard wired into my car and thought that the new one would be the same connection, which it is but its a different shape casing arounf the mini usb so it will not connect to the new dock. Only a small thing but worth noting!!
Otherwise all seems to work well. Traffic, re-routing, petrol prices etc all spot on. The hands free is also much better and you can now hear the caller when on a noisy motorway. BUY ONE!!
TomTom Go 540 LIVE works a treat for me... December 9, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We bought a Tomtom Go 540 LIVE for our sales vans. We already have various TomToms which are getting old and out of date. Our vans cover 1000+ miles per week each, all over the UK, so we wanted to try one of these to see if it is worth rolling out across our fleet.
So far, it's been a very positive experience. On my first day with it, it diverted me down a narrow country road, normally I wouldn't have trusted a TomTom's judgement on this, but decided to give it the benefit of the doubt.
It had picked up on a traffic jam which hadn't even been announced on the local radio and diverted me via some very scenic backroads which I would never have found on my own, even with an atlas. A couple of times I crossed under motorway and saw the queue I'd avoided.
The IQ routes sent me into Central London and plotted me a very efficient route into Covent Garden, and the reception was good in places where the older models just freeze up because of the tall buildings.
The Hands-Free bluetooth phone works much better than the 520, you can keep up a conversation at motorway speeds in our very noisy vans. On a 520, the mic just didn't pick up voices clearly because of the road noise. The unit connected very quickly with my Samsung J600 and a colleague's old Ericsson k510i. The only downside is that it doesn't download the numbers from the both SIM card and the Phone memory, but this is easily fixed.
The built-in SIM card is a Godsend. It picks up the signal easily and quickly. This is just so much easier than setting up a GPRS connection with your phone, which was a nightmare on the 520. The coverage was 100% in the place we went to, but this was mostly in urban areas. We expect the 7.99 subscription to be offset by fuel/time savings and GPRS data charges which often came to more than 10 per month on our older TomToms with the Traffic Subscription.
We just love the Google search facility and have only just begun to explore the possibilities. I found it really useful for locating Macdonalds restaurants in London when I needed a comfort break.
The fuel price maps are really good too, again, we need to explore the 'find the cheapest fuel on the route' option, but the prices it showed were accurate and up to date. I had huge frustration with the old 520 when I ran low on fuel once and used the POI menu to locate the nearest fuel...the first THREE places it sent me had been closed, one of them for several years. It's useful that this new model tells you the name of the station and the brand of fuel they sell.
The camera warnings are generally good, but not completely up-to-date, and it did miss a couple of fixed cameras compltetely
The dock is great, but I'd still recommend people to remove it every time you park. This design makes it much less likely you'll damage the plug socket.
The speech recognition seems to work ok but is somewhat limited.
The journey times are now much more accurate. We were really surprised about just how accurate the predicted delays were.
Overall, we are very pleased with our new gadget. Unfortunately for our company, we'll have to buy three more to avoid squabbles between our drivers.
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