• Fully Mobile: Find your way by car, bike or on foot.
• Easy to use: Simple installation and user friendly touch screen operation.
• Portable: High performance, lightweight GPS.
• Clear and Accurate: 3D maps and voice instructions guide you from door-to-door.
• A choice of routes: quickest, shortest, pedestrian or avoiding toll roads
• Stopovers and itinerary planning: Plan routes to multiple destinations & add stopping points
• Make it your own: navigate directly to millions of Points of Interest such as hotels, restaurants, parking garages and personal favorites (phone numbers and web addresses for POI's incl.)
• Contact Navigation: Navigate directly from your handheld PDA address book integrating TomTom software into the PDA menu.
• Supports all device displays: adapts to any kind of display, including VGA display support.

Preference Options
Accessing the preferences sub-menu provides you with a plethora of options to choose from on TomTom Navigator 5. Planning Preferences and Toll Charge Preferences are new features for TomTom Navigator 5. This also allows for the London Congestion Zone and other toll roads to be avoided en-route. The Show / Hide Tips which is a good feature for new users of TomTom Nav 5, allowing you to receive pop-up tips on-screen when performing specific functions.

Planning Preferences
A new feature in TomTom Navigator 5 is Advanced Planning and Planning Preferences. It allows you to plan a route before you leave the house. You can select to browse the route by text, browse the route by images. So now not only can you receive instructions of the route prior to driving it on TomTom Navigator 5, but see a screen shot slide show or actually drive the route in demo mode with full voice instructions.

Planning and Toll Charge Preferences
Two new features on TomTom Navigator 5 are the Planning Preferences screen allowing you to tailor and customise your journey to various preferences like fastest or shortest route, avoidance of motorways etc and the Toll Charge Preferences screen.

Itinerary Planning
This allows you to create multiple destination points. Itinerary also allows you to save and re-load an existing itinerary, which means if you have a regular set of clients or businesses you want to drive to in a manually sorted way, then you can save this for later use and retrieve it when you go to re-drive the journey.

Mobile GPRS Features
Many TomTom Navigator 3 users will have already experienced TomTom Traffic. TomTom Traffic is also now available on TomTom Navigator 5 as well as TomTom Weather and extra Downloads. Providing you have created a TomTom Navigator 5 account and are paying the subscription fee you will be able to access these services over a GPRS GSM connection.

Voice Prompts
The voice prompts used for navigation can be changed by selecting either a different language, or a different person within your local language. TomTom have now gone for the Ogg Vorbis format which gives very loud and clear and concise verbal instructions at MP3 quality.

POI Warning
Pocket PC users of TomTom Navigator 3 will have been used to no POI Warning functions. TomTom Navigator 5 Software comes with a huge array of pre-installed POI's including petrol stations, car parks, railways stations, cash points etc and has full support for all the 3rd party POI's available for TomTom Navigator.