Features
Inputs and Outputs

Features

Overview: The TomTom GO 730T can be used in your car or used as a handheld navigation unit. Maps of the United States and Canada are installed on the unit's built-in 4 GB flash memory. A home dock with an attached USB cable is included in case you need to update your maps in the future. The GO 730T also comes with car charger and a suction-cup bracket gives you an easy way to mount the GO 730T in your vehicle. It also includes an external RDS-TMC traffic receiver which allows you to receive up-to-the-minute traffic information either from TMC--the Traffic Message Channel (subscription required) or TomTom Traffic (not available in the USA/subscription required).

Slim Portable Design: The TomTom GO 730T is lightweight and slim making it ideal to use in the car or carry around in your hand or coat pocket.

Easy Installation: The GO 730T comes supplied with a cigarette lighter adapter for supplying power to the unit in your vehicle and also comes supplied with an adjustable suction cup mount that can be mounted to the windshield or dash or console using the self-adhesive plastic disc. The unit also features an integrated GPS antenna so there is no external antenna to mount outside of the vehicle.

4.3" Widescreen: The GO 730T features a 4.3" widescreen, touch-panel LCD display (480 x 272 pixels) with an anti-glare coating for easy viewing and simple operation. The unit's LCD touch-panel display features a light sensor that provides automatic brightness control for day or night driving.

Included Maps: The unit features preloaded maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico on its internal 4GB flash memory for worry-free navigation.

SD-Card Slot: The GPS unit features an SD-card slot that supports SD-Cards (SD) and Multimedia Cards (MMC) for storing downloaded MP3 music files, JPEG still photos and mapping updates.

Home Dock: The GO 730T's home dock is used for charging the GPS unit when it is not in the car and for connecting the unit to your computer. The home dock features a mini-type-B USB connector on the top for connecting the GO 730T and an attached 42" USB cable with a type-A USB connector for connecting to your PC. To get the most from your TomTom system, you can link it to your PC or Mac, where you can back up (and restore) your Favorite locations and preferences, load new maps and install new navigation voices. No minimum system requirements are provided.

Rechargeable Battery: Fully charging the internal Lithium-Polymer battery will take approximately 2 hours. A fully charged battery offers approximately 5 hours of operation.

Password: You can set a password for the TomTom GO 730T which must be entered every time you start the unit to prevent others from using the device.

GPS Receiver: The TomTom GO 730T features a high sensitivity GPS chipset that gives you fast, accurate positioning.

Driving View: When the TomTom GO 730T starts, you are shown the Driving View screen, which shows your immediate locations on the current route. The Driving View screen displays your current position; the name of the next major road or road sign information; navigation instructions for the road ahead; the name of the next street to turn on to, information about your trip time, remaining distance and arrival time; GPS signal strength; and Traffic bar. You can tap the screen to zoom in and out of your route.

Note: The Driving View screen is shown in black and white until the GPS unit locates your current position.

Text-To-Speech With Speech Recognition: The TomTom GO 730T understands the pronunciation of city and street names allowing you to speak an address into the unit. You can also answer questions asked by the GO 730T while driving, so you can keep your eyes on the road with the combination of text-to-speech and speech recognition technology. The GPS unit also announces directions and street names giving you easier guidance and allowing you to focus better on the road ahead.

Navigation: The 'Navigate to...' menu is the simplest and most useful starting point in most situations. Given your current GPS position, you can use this to navigate to any given address, intersection, favorite location, POI (Point Of Interest), and so on. You can choose from the following options:

• Home: Once your home location is stored in memory, it can be quickly be chosen as a destination.
• Favorite: The locations that you visit frequently can be stored in the Favorite menu. A Favorite can be chosen as a destination without having to enter its address each time.
• Address: This option lets you enter a specific address as a destination. When you end an address, you can choose from five options.
  • City Center: sets your destination as the center of a city or town
  • Street And House Number: sets an exact address as your destination
  • Zip Code: enters a Zip Code as your destination
  • Cross Street Or Intersection: sets your destination as the point where two streets meet
  • Spoken Address: you can verbally enter the address by speaking the state, city, street name, and house number. You can choose to be prompted on screen only, or both on screen and spoken commands.
• Recent Destination: You can display a list of addresses, Points Of Interest and other destinations that you've used recently.
• Points Of Interest: This option lets you choose from a database of 5 million railway stations, restaurants, gas stations, ATMs, and so on.
• Point On Map: You can use the map browser to select a destination, scroll around the map, zooming in or out as needed.
• My Location: You can select your current GPS location as your desitination.
• Latitude/Longitude: This is a calculated route based on Latitude and Longitude parameters.
• Position of Last Stop: This is a calculated route based on your last stop.
• TomTom Buddy: You can welcome friends and colleagues into your network of "TomTom Buddies". Then if you both wish you can be alerted when a friend is nearby, or you can navigate to where they are.

IQ Routes Technology: The GO 730T calculates your routes based on the real average speed measured on roads rather than the speed limits. That gives you much more accurate ETAs, and indicates the routes that are truly the fastest based on real world data.

Advanced Lane Guidance: When navigating difficult intersections, the GO 730T will indicate which lane you should drive in to best negotiate the turns.

Re-Calculation: This feature allows the GO 730T to adjust to your new location instantly and provides a new route.

Points Of Interest: The GO 730T gives you access to 5 million Points of Interests including fuel stations, parking, restaurants, cash machines, and lots more.

Favorite Locations: The Favorite menu allows you to store locations that you visit frequently into memory. You can choose a favorite location the same way you choose a destination. The following menu options are available; Home, Address, Recent Destination, Point Of Interest, Point On Map, GPS Position (allows you to store your current location quickly), latitude and longitude, and the location where your TomTom was last used in the car.

Find Alternative: Once a route has been planned, you can change it using the 'Find alternative...' menu. You can choose from the following options:

• Calculate Alternative: You can find an alternative route if you don't like the original route.
• Avoid Roadblock: If you spot signs of trouble (such as backed-up traffic or 'Delays ahead' warning signs), you can choose this menu option. You need to estimate whether the blockage extends 100 yards, 1/4 mile, 1 mile or 3 miles ahead from your current position and then select the appropriate icon.
• Travel via...: Choose 'Travel via...' if you want to make sure the planned route goes past one particular location, perhaps to pick up or drop someone off. The new location is picked in exactly the same way as you would pick a departure point or destination.
• Avoid Part of Route: This menu option allows you to avoid intersections that are known for heavy traffic.
• Recalculate Original: You can return to the original best route.
• Minimize Traffic Delays: Avoid traffic delays using TomTom Traffic information, a TomTom Plus service

View Route: If you already have a route planned, you can explore it in various ways by choosing 'View route'. You can choose from the following options:

• Browse as Text: This option provides a simple list of the junctions involved and the distances (or times, use the 'Options' button to change the numbers shown) between them.
• Browse as Images: Using this option presents each junction in 3D, with your turn instruction clearly marked.
• Browse Map of Route: This option allows to overlay the route onto a map that you can zoom and scroll around.
• Show Route Demo: This feature shows an animation of your route.
• Show Route Summary: This option allows you to display the graphical overview of your route that was shown when it was first calculated.

Itinerary Planning: An itinerary is essentially just a list of 'waypoints' and 'destinations'. Your best route is calculated, visiting each in turn (in the exact order you specify).

Traffic Information: You can obtain traffic information allowing the GO 730T to recalculate routes based on traffic congestion two ways:

• Traffic Message Channel (TMC): TMC transmits traffic information as a radio signal. TMC is not a TomTom service but is available via the supplied TomTom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver and currently does not require a subscription for the first year (subscription fee required after first year). The GO 730T can manually or automatically search and tune for radio frequencies that carry RDS-TMC information in your area. Traffic incidents are shown in the Driving View and on the Traffic Bar in the order that they occur along your planned route. The estimated time for any traffic delay is shown next to the unit's incident symbol on the screen. The distance from your current location to the next Traffic incident on your planned route is shown at the bottom of the Traffic Bar on the GO 730T's LCD screen. Incidents are also shown in the Driving View of the GO 730T so that you can view the precise location of any incident.
• TomTom Traffic: TomTom Traffic is a TomTom service for receiving up-to-date traffic information. The TomTom Traffic service is currently available for Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. It requires a Bluetooth-enabled cell phone and a wireless data connection (GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, CDMA). TomTom Traffic uses the most up-to-date information from many local sources. You must establish a Bluetooth connection between your cell phone and the GO 730T and you must have a wireless data subscription with your mobile network operator and a subscription to TomTom Traffic.

Preferences: You can change much of the look and feel of your TomTom system to your own liking by using 'Preferences'. You can adjust the following:

• Display Color Scheme: When 'Use Day Colors' is selected, bright colors are used, with a lot of contrast, so that you can see the map clearly. When it is dark outside, you may want to 'Use Night Colors'. The navigation view will then be displayed (by default) using dark and subdued colors that will not interfere with your night vision. The TomTom also has a light sensor which can do this automatically.
• Show/Hide POI On Map: This option allows you to show or hide each category of POI; for example, show restaurants and don't show ferry terminals.
• Safety Preferences: The unit provides a list of preferences to make your journey safer. You can select from: Hide menu options while driving, Suggest driving breaks, Show safety reminders, Warn when near churches or schools, Warn when driving faster than set speed or faster than allowed, and Warn not to leave device in car.
• Voice Preferences: You can change the way voices are used in navigation. Options include: Change voice, Disable/Enable voice, Speech preferences, Record voice (allowing you to record your own navigation words and phrases), Disable recorded voice, and Download Voice.
• Turn Off Sound/Turn On Sound: You can turn the navigation voice on or off.
• Volume Preferences: Adjust the volume based on the amount of noise in the car. You can also link the volume to your speed, so directions are louder at higher speeds.
• Manage Favorites: You can rename or delete favorites.
• Change Home Location: Change your home location by entering an address, a recent destination, point of interest, GPS position, point on map, latitude/longitude, or TomTom buddy.
• Manage Map: You can download a new map, change the map you're using, or delete a map from an SD card (sold separately).
• Manage POIs: You can Add or delete a POI, warn when near POI, Edit POI, Add or delete POI category.
• Change Car Symbol: You can select from 14 different car symbols: Blue or Yellow Arrow; Blue, Gray, Red, or Yellow Car; Classic, Family, Finned, Old Timer, RaceCar, Sports Cabrio, Sports Car, or SUV.
• 3D/2D Map: The main 3D navigation view, showing maps, routes and Points Of Interest from the perspective of the vehicle driver, can be switched to a more conventional 2D view. Choose 'Turn off 3D display' to revert to an overhead 'plan' map, which is constantly rotated to keep your current direction of travel pointing 'up' the screen. Choose 'Turn on 3D display' to return to the original view.
• Hide/Show Lane Images: You can choose to hide or show lane images.
• Change Map Colors: You can independently select from 10 map color schemes for day and night colors.
• Brightness Preferences: To save you adjusting the brightness several times each day, there are two preference sliders, one each for the daytime and nighttime color schemes. You can also choose to turn brightness down, or switch to night view when dark.
• Status Bar Preferences: You can check off items to show on status bar: Remaining Time, Remaining Distance, Arrival Time, Current Time, Street Name, or Speed. You can also orient the status bar vertically or horizontally on the screen.
• Automatic Zooming: Lets you enable or disable automatic zooming in the Driving View.
• Quick Menu Preferences: You can select up to six buttons to be used in the Quick Menu.
• Guided Tours: This option gives you tutorials on the GPS unit, menu options, map browsing, route planning, and traffic (if subscribed).
• Name Preferences: Allows you to choose how streets and highways are named.
• Set Units: You can choose to display units for distances, time, latitude/longitude, temperature, or barometer measurements.
• Operate Left/Right Handed: You can change the button orientation to one side of the screen or the other depending upon the hand being used.
• Keyboard Preferences: The size and layout of the keyboard can be changed. You can select between "ABCD", "QWERTY", or "AZERTY" keyboard layouts.
• Planning Preferences: You can select option for each time a search is done: fastest route, shortest route, avoid freeways, walking routes, bicycle routes, or limited speed. You can also choose to be asked preference each time a search is done.
• Toll Road Preferences: Lets you determine how the unit handles toll roads. Choices include: Always avoid, Never avoid, Ask me when there are toll roads on my route.
• Set Owner: Enter your name and address as owner of the unit and secure it with a four digit password.
• Speaker Preferences: Lets you select which speakers are used for music and spoken instructions. Selections include: Internal speaker, Bluetooth Hi-Fi device, Line Out, FM to your car radio.
• Car Preferences: You can link night view to headlights and have navigation instructions cause the car radio to mute.
• Music Preferences: When playing music, you can choose to shuffle or repeat songs, reduce brightness, show the music button in the Driving View, Automatically switch to the Driving View, or start a slideshow.
• Startup Preferences: You can select how the unit will behave when you power up the device: Continue where I left off, Ask for a Destination, Show Main Menu, Start jukebox, Start slideshow.
• Bluetooth Preferences: You can enable wireless data and hands-free calling.
• Disable Wireless Data: You can block reception of wireless data but still enable navigation.
• Send/Receive Files: You can send or receive files, such as itineraries or voices via Bluetooth devices.
• Edit TomTom Account
• Battery Saving Preferences: To conserve power, you can turn off screen between instructions, or turn off screen altogether during navigation.
• Change Language: You can select from multiple languages for voice commands.
• Set Clock: You can set the time manually and change the way the clock is displayed. The clock can also be set automatically using the GPS signal.
• Switch/Manage Maps: You can switch between the current map (U.S. and Canada) to any other maps that may be available on the Memory card.
• Show Fewer/More Menu Options: You can hide some of the lesser used icons to unclutter the menu. For more advanced features, you can choose to show more options.
• Hide Tips: The unit can give helpful navigation tips. These can be turned off if desired.
• Reset Factory Settings: Lets you delete all settings, locations, and itineraries that have been added.

Help Me! Menu: This feature gives you direct access to safety and road assistance information, such as the phone number and route description to the nearest police station or hospital.

TomTom Home: TomTom Home is a free supplied desktop software program for your computer that enables you to the following.

• Read the full version of the unit's User Manual
• Buy new maps and update your TomTom GO 730T with the latest software and services automatically
• Make and restore backups of your GO 730T GPS information
• Plan routes in advance on your computer
• Manage maps, voices, POIs, safety cameras and more
• Download free TomTom QuickGPSfix technology which pinpoints your location quicker when you first turn on  the GO 730T
• Transfer music and photos to your GO 730T
• Buy TomTom services and manage your subscription.

Note: The included TomTom Home software is compatible with Windows and Mac. No specific system requirements given.

TomTom PLUS: The optional TomTom Plus offers a collection of services to keep you informed and entertained. They can be downloaded to your computer, then transferred to your TomTom, or accessed by the GO 730T from your cell phone or PDA wirelessly, using its Bluetooth connectivity. New services are added regularly, some currently available are:

• continuously updated traffic information throughout Europe including Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (requires Bluetooth phone)
• location of radar cameras throughout Europe including Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom
• map updates and additional maps of cities/countries not already included
• additional voices
• sending your current location to TomTom Buddies and receive theirs
• best selling audio books read by famous narrators

Map Share Technology: TomTom Map Share is technology unique to TomTom which enables you to add to, update and personalize your maps instantly. It also lets you share and benefit from fellow users' changes - daily, automatically, and easily via TomTom Home. TomTom has the world's largest satellite navigation community that can contribute and exchange all their changes amongst each other giving you the latest, most accurate and up-to-date mapping information.

Bluetooth: Many Bluetooth-capable cellular phones are compatible with the TomTom GO 730T and can use it as a hands-free car kit. The GO 730T features an optimized acoustic design, enhanced noise reduction, echo cancellation technology and a high performance speaker for clear communication. For a complete list of compatible phones see TomTom's web site. Available options will vary by phone, generally these apply:

• accept or reject incoming calls on the TomTom GO screen with a single tap of the screen
• dial your home number
• enter a number manually
• call a POI (Point Of Interest)
• dial a number in your phone book
• call a recently dialed number
• dial a recent caller

Music and Picture Playback: The TomTom GO 730T can play MP3 audio files and Audible Audiobooks and display documents and JPEG photos using its SD-card slot. These files are transferred from your computer to the GO 730T's inserted optional SD-card via USB connection using the supplied TomTom Home software CD-ROM. The unit supports up to 2GB SD-cards. The GO 730T's MP3 player features shuffle and repeat playback modes. The built-in MP3 player goes quiet during navigation instructions and hands-free phone calls.

Note: No SD-Card is included.

Built-In FM Transmitter: There is an FM Transmitter inside the GO 730T that allows you to play back the downloaded MP3 songs on the GPS unit through your vehicle's FM radio and speakers.

Photo And Document Viewer: You can load, store and preview photos from your PC or digital camera via USB. JPEG photos are stored on the unit's optional inserted SD-card. Stored JPEG photos can be played back in a slide show fashion. You can also view, search and zoom in on guides, reference works, dictionaries, etc that have been downloaded to an SD-card from your PC.

Optional iPod Cable: Using TomTom's optional iPod cable you can control your iPod via the GO 730T and hear your favorite songs and play lists through your vehicle's audio system using the unit's built-in FM transmitter.

Inputs and Outputs

GPS Unit:

• Docking Connector: There is a Mini USB 2.0 port on the bottom of the GO 730T that interfaces with the home dock.
• SD Card Slot: There is an SD Card slot found on the bottom of the GO 730T for optional additional maps, sold separately.
• TomTom Connector: This is an input for the supplied TMC receiver/antenna.
• Audio Out: A 3.5mm output jack is also located on the bottom of the unit for connecting to a separate speaker system.
• External Antenna: An MCX-connector is located on the back of the unit for connection of an external GPS antenna.

Home Dock:

• Dock Connector: There is a Mini USB 2.0 connector is found on top of home dock that connects to the GO 730T.
• USB Cable: There is a 42" USB cable attached to the home dock that features a type-A USB connector that plugs into your PC.