TomTom Hands Free Car Kit

£20 doesn’t seem like an awful lot, especially when the difference between the two products is so vast, so its £20 we were eyeing up before we even opened up this kit that turns your smartphone into your in-car navigation.


The TomTom Start 20 is a stand-alone sat nav offering lane guidance, spoken street names and access to TomTom’s maps. This hands-free kit meanwhile relies on your mobile phone to do the hard work and merely holds your phone at the right angle. Actually it does a little more, but we’re not convinced it really does enough.

The kit itself is made up of several parts, but the main unit is a reassuringly robust holder for your phone, boasting an integrated 2W speaker, an extendable microphone and a charger.

This unit plugs into your cigarette lighter via standard USB cable and charger, while a pass-through cable can be used to charge your phone while you’re out and about too. This last point is important because using your phone’s GPS will rapidly run down your phones battery on even a modest journey.