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With text-to-speech voice guidance and turn-by-turn voice prompts, this 5" TomTom VIA 1515M 1EN5.052.08 GPS offers hands-free navigation assistance, so you can safely and easily reach your desired destination.
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1. Bought to replace a broken Garmin. This is not the product I went to Best Buy to get, they were out and this was the next choice. There overall availability of products was abysmal to say the least.
Just used it on a trip. I will say it programs well, better than the Garmin. The voice is identical to the Garmin so they must use or share the same software.
On the trip going out it worked flawlessly once we got it to find the correct state to search. Our bad on that.
The reason it worked is this leg of the trip was to my daughters with very little small town travel, mostly freeway. Didn't need this really but I love the eta on these.
It was on the way back I noticed problems. The biggest, in small towns it would NOT ANNOUNCE the street name in advance. Ex, turn 1/2 mile ahead on Smith Street. It says turn 1/2 mile ahead. OK, I'm not sure when in traffic and there are three places ahead to turn left which one is the correct one. I have a car to drive, can't be reading maps and watching the screen. Like the Garmin it would show the street name but in a small box on the right with small letters. Great for the passenger to read but the driver needs superman vision to read it.
My Garmin presented a display across the entire screen at the top showing the street name.
My Garmin presented a display across the entire screen at the top showing the street name.
For this reason alone, when you need it the most in unfamiliar towns, this is where it lets you down. Funny, on major highways it says clearly; exit 1/2 ahead on the right, exit 257.
My Best Buy number: 2967273978
My Best Buy number: 2967273978
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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GPS Sun Shade?
Does anyone make a plastic shade that can be clipped onto a portable GPS unit to reduce screen wash-out when it is used on a bright sunny day?
I should have mentioned this in my review. I have a lifetime of graphic design, creating training materials and power points and I could not have picked thee worst colors to use for a gps is I had to. Washed out is an understatement. Its very hard to read in any light period but yes the brightest it gets the worse the picture.
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