TomTom Brings Out Pair of New Models, The Go 2435 and Go 2535 [Few New Attributes Involved In TomTom's New Products--Many Left Wondering What's Up]

Posted on TFTS by Steve Anderson on Thursday, 24. February 2011 under: Cars, Portable Technology, Transportation Tech

I’m very fond of my TomTom navigation system. I love having that little GPS sitting quietly on my dashboard, telling me all the turns I need to make to get to the places I want to go. And if I miss a turn, TomTom will quietly recalculate, and figure out a whole other way to get there. Even if I don’t want to follow TomTom’s route, it’ll still work (this actually happened this weekend as I went to an event not far from home, and didn’t want to take the freeway). TomTom’s brought out two new models for us to consider, the TomTom GO 2435 and GO 2535, though some are wondering what’s all that different about them.

Both of TomTom’s new models will be packing some terrific features, like touch screen controls as well as voice recognition (remember that trip I took this weekend? I spent a lot of time shouting at my TomTom, “I don’t want to take the freeway!” Now, it’ll listen to me.) and what’s being called a “new, intuitive user interface” (not that the old interface was lacking in intuition, really), as well as old favorites like Bluetooth connectivity for cell phone users, four gigs of flash storage (keeps your MP3s and whatnot on hand) and a three hour battery life, though this scarcely matters since you can just plug it into your cigarette lighter while you drive.

About the only difference between the two is that the 2435 will have a 4.3 inch screen and the 2535 will have a five inch. You’ll also have your choice of sub-versions; the GO 2435T, for example, will have lifetime traffic updates included, M denotes unlimited map updates and MT, well, that gives you both.

We’re all a little unclear on just what those user interface changes are comprised of, and of course, we don’t yet have price or release date information either. Still though, there’s more than enough in this announcement to get us all thinking seriously about the possibility of new GPS systems, and if you do a lot of driving, maybe you’ll want one yourself.

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