Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable

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Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable

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Features:

Lets you enjoy easy, safe in-car entertainment by controlling your iPod via the GO screen
Play all of your favorite music from both your iPod and GO through your car's speaker in an easy, plug-and-play fashion
During spoken instructions and hands-free calling, the music will automatically pause and then start again once the call has ended
Compatible with most popular iPod products, as well as your Tom Tom GO 510, 710, and 910 models

Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable

Editorial Review:

Enjoy easy, safe in-car entertainment by controlling your iPod via the GO screen. Just plug in the iPod cable, connect the audio cable to the car stereo and you can instantly brighten up your journey with your favorite songs and playlists.
The Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable lets you enjoy easy, safe in-car entertainment by controlling your iPod via your Tom Tom GO's screen. Just plug in the iPod cable and connect the audio cable to the car stereo, and you can instantly brighten up your journey with your favorite songs and playlists in safety.
The iPod Connect Cable is designed to link an iPod to your compatible Tom Tom GO models. This unit has a 2.5-millimeter stereo-style connector on one end, and an iPod connector on the other, and is 200 centimeters in total length. This cable allows you to control your iPod via your GO touch-screen, so you can play all mp3s from your iPod and from your GO through the GO speaker. During spoken instructions and use of hands-free calling on your compatible GO, the music will automatically pause, and then start again once the call has ended.
The audio cable included in this set is a standard line-out audio cable for linking your Tom Tom GO to your car stereo. This unit has a 3.5-millimeter stereo-style connector on each end, and is 200 centimeters in total length. This cable allows you to play mp3s from your GO through your car's speakers, as well as receive spoken instructions through the car speakers. During spoken instructions and use of hands-free calling on your GO, the music will automatically pause and then start again once the call has ended.
When used in combination, these two cables let you not only control your iPod from your Tom Tom GO, but play all of your favorite music from both units through your car's speaker in an easy, plug-and-play fashion. The system lets you operate all the necessary iPod functions, such as: play, pause, fastforward, rewind, next song, previous song, shuffle, select and browse, as well as viewing the current: playlist, composer, artist, album, genre, song, and audio books. The system is compatible with iPod mini, iPod photo, iPod nano, iPod video, iPod 3rd generation and iPod 4th generation iPod products, as well as the GO 510, GO 710 and GO 910 Tom Tom products.
User's should note that the audio cable is already included in the GO 910 box as a standard, and that the iPod Connect Cable cannot be used at the same time as the Tom Tom RDS-TMC Traffic Receiver, which uses the same connector. Also make sure before purchasing this product that your car stereo has a 3.5-millimeter audio jack in order to connect via the audio cable.
What's in the Box
iPod connect cable and audio cable.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 2.0 / 5.0

Not worth the money:

The audio quality is horrible. Pops and clicks constantly. I have a 720, and the user interface leaves you going through too many gyrations to make this something you want to do every time you turn on your car. I find the direct lineout connection to my iPod much more usable, because you don't have to startup the iPod again when you turn the car on, and you get the benefit of charging the iPod, that you don't get with the TomTom in the middle.
There simply isn't enough benefit to justify putting your... more info

Nothing Great:

My car stereo could connect to ipod directly using its ipod cable which looks to be a better option in case you want better sound quality. Routing voice through tom tom go 720 and then input to car stereo using auxiliary input audio cable deteriorate the sound quality.

Nice Idea, Bad Product:

Tom Tom iPod Connect Cable and Audio Cable
Pros:
1) Allows touchscreen control of your iPod on your TomTom
Cons:
1) Sound quality poor and volume was lacking
2) Doesn't resume song when turning TomTom back on
3) Didn't work correctly with my 3 Gen iPod (wouldn't pause iPod when turning off TomTom, but seemed to work correctly with my iPod Mini)
4) Doesn't charge iPod
Don't waste your $30 (you can have mine)
Harmon Kardon Drive+Play is a MUCH better option... more info

Easy solution to shoddy sound quality:

Hey guys I was thinking about buying this for my TomTom but heard of the poor sound quality which was a huge deal to me. I normally plug my iPod in through the auxilary port of my car but that will be taken up by my nav system now.
What did I do? I went to radio shack and got an audio splitter for about $10. This allows me to plug both the iPod and TomTom into a single port with no interference. The only downside is no controlling iPod with the TomTom but I'm used to that anyway.

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