The new TomTom Go 950 GPS unit is billed by its manufacturer as “the ultimate GPS for demanding drivers”, although it is missing some of the added extra features we’ve come to expect from devices in this price range.

With an Australian recommended retail price of $649, you would expect the TomTom Go 950 to have just about every feature imaginable. Luckily, those features it is missing, such as an MP3 player and FM transmitter, tend to fall on the “nice to have but non-essential” heading rather than “must-have”. Luckily, features such as Bluetooth, text-to-speech, voice commands, lane guidance and junction view, speed and red light camera alerts (via an audio alert) plus dead reckoning are all present and accounted for.

The TomTom Go 950 isn’t going to win any awards in terms of design, though it is equipped with an above average window mount, at least when compared to some of TomTom’s earlier efforts. It’s a fairly chunky device and features a 4.3-inch touchscreen with resolution of 480×272, complete with on-screen QWERTY keyboard.

This device would be ideal for anyone who travels a lot, since TomTom has loaded it with maps for not only Australia and New Zealand, but also the US, Canada and Europe. Overall this covers 39 countries.

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By Caroline Warnes