We have been asked by the team at TomTom to find 100 UK MNers to try TomTom GO 5000.
We're looking for Mumsnetters who are regular drivers.
TomTom says: "We all know that traffic jams can take seconds to build up and then last for hours. There is nothing more frustrating than sitting in a jam or in slow moving traffic and not knowing how long you will be there. Especially, when your time is tight and you have children to pick up or drop off.
TomTom satnavs know the precise traffic situation on most UK roads at all times, in real time. The satnav you’ll be given to test is a “live device,” this means it is constantly searching every possible route option to find you the fastest route available. So, if the traffic situation suddenly gets bad on your “normal” route, it will automatically search other options to find a new, faster route and give you a new arrive time."
If selected, you'll be sent the TomTom GO 5000 to try for a few weeks and so long as you add feedback as required you will be able to keep the product.
If selected, you will be sent the TomTom GO 5000 at the end of September, and asked to try it for two weeks. You will then need to try it and add feedback to a thread on Mumsnet. At the end of the testing period, we’d also like you to post a review on the Mumsnet review pages and fill in a short survey. In order to keep the product, you would need to add your feedback by the 26th of October, so please only apply if you are able to do this.
Please also note that TomTom may use your anonymous feedback comments on their website and social media channels, as well as elsewhere.
If you'd like to take part, please add your details here: www.surveymonkey.com/s/RKBRB3K
We will be in touch with selected MNers ASAP.
Thanks and good luck!
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AngelieMumsnet · 15/09/2014 13:38
I know 
Not impressed that they couldn't just give us a voucher so we can choose voices!
Who voted for Stephen Fry? 
I wanted Marge too, or was it Homer? Anyone but SF anyway.
IAMA
Tom took me by the back roads Ooh err 
I don't know that it would be any quicker, perhaps at rush hour as it does avoid a small area that snarls up a bit. I expect Tom thinks it is quicker but in reality although they are 60mph roads they are narrow, single track and full of blind bends so you don't actually go at 60
Did you notice if your arrival time (on the screen) was the time you arrived there? If it was, then it's quicker, surely? If not then it's only calculating the routes in a very basic way and I'd be surprised.
Got there fine. Parked. Attempted to remove holder from windscreen and left the sucker behind (did this again on getting home. How on earth do you remove it without pulling it off?) but thankfully this can be shoved back on
PM'd you last night so hopefully you got that. If you don't want to remove the holder just put your finger lightly on the top of Tom and tilt him forward, he will come out of the holder easily. (took me a few minutes to sort that one as I was trying to lift him out).
Getting home again I decided to try voice recognition but I couldn't get Tom to respond to any "Hello TomTom", "Hey TomTom" or anything else. Once I selected voice recognition from the menu and it told me to speak after the beep etc then it understood "Go Home" but really it is a bit useless if you have to swipe at the menu first because you clearly wouldn't want to do that while driving which I assume it what VR is for
You have to use the sleep function instead of turning him off if you want to keep VR 'on' via settings.
I found the little symbols on the right hand side distracting too, I don't know what half of them mean
Which ones?
Serena is very calm but she realy irritates me with "The A one seventy seven, the B one hundred and sixty two" and all that gubbins. Can computer programmers not manage to make her say "A one seven seven"
I think she might have been programmed by my friend, she does this and it makes me want to throttle her travel separately.
Why does Serena always say 'you have reached your destination on the left' when just putting a road name in?
Stephen Fry has had the sack. he is unbearable. 
she doesn't respond to my London accent either. i say go home
she says - so you want to go home. please confirm, i say yes and then she doesn't understand but i am getting more used to using it.
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