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Buy Now!! TomTom VIA 1505M 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Maps
The TomTom VIA 1505M
Introducing the TomTom VIA 1505M, equipped with superior driving intelligence.Travel with ease and style throughout the US, Canada & Mexico. This innovative navigator boasts a super-slim design, classic finish, new, intuitive user interface and a 5-inch touchscreen.
Using TomTom maps, you have access to one million more miles of mapped road in the US than you would using any other GPS brand**. With TomTom VIA's Free Lifetime Map Updates***, you can download the latest map edition every few months. And, with TomTom Map Share On-Demand Updates, you can easily make instant changes and download verified updates from other TomTom users to your map.
Outsmart delays using IQ Routes*. The exclusive technology directs you to your destination using the smartest, fastest route possible. TomTom knows to avoid certain roads during rush hour, streets inundated with traffic light changes and pedestrian traffic, and more, so that you always take the fastest way to get anywhere, at any time.
TomTom VIA 1505M Features
Free Lifetime Map Updates
Outsmart road changes. Free Lifetime Map Updates guarantee you receive four new editions of your TomTom map each year to ensure that you are always navigating with the industry's most up-to-date map.
Premium maps of the US, Canada & Mexico
Navigate with ease throughout the US, Canada & Mexico using TomTom's premium maps. Using TomTom maps, you'll have access to one million more miles of mapped road in the US that you would using other GPS brand.
Integrated EasyPort Mount
With TomTom VIA's unique flip-screen technology, you can easily secure your device to your vehicle's windshield or dashboard with the integrated EasyPort Mount.
Refreshed User Interface, New Design & Contemporary Finish
Travel in style. TomTom VIA boasts a super-slim design, classic finish and a bright, 5-inch touchscreen. And, the new user interface allows for easy route planning and menu browsing.
Advanced Lane Guidance
Advanced Lane Guidance show's you exactly which road to take, when driving through complex intersections and multi-lane junctions.
7 Million Points of Interest
Easily find millions of gas stations, restaurants,hotels and more on your route. Your device comes preloaded with more than 7 million points of interest in over 60 categories.
IQ Routes
Always take the smartest, fastest route. This exclusive technology will recommend the fastest route based on the time of day and day of the week.
TomTom Map Share On-Demand Updates
Always take the smartest, fastest route. This exclusive technology will recommend the fastest route based on the time of day and day of the week.
Spoken Turn-By-Turn Directions, Including Street Names
Keep your eyes on the road and listen while your TomTom announces turn-by-turn directions, including street and place names.
Travel With Peace of Mind With Help Me! Emergency Menu
Travel with peace of mind. Easily access local emergency providers such as police, fire stations, and hospitals.Footnotes
* Feature available in the US and Canada only
** Based on info available as of 1/11
***You receive non-transferable traffic data per year until the product�s useful life expires or TomTom no longer receives traffic updates from its suppliers, whichever is shorter. Lifetime Traffic available in US and CAN only. Details and terms at www.tomtom.com/legal.
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Plug & Go Right Out of the Box
All TomToms are easy to use, and work right out of the box. TomTom's intuitive, award-winning user interface features large icons and sharp, full-color 3D graphics.Reduce Driver Stress
30-Day Latest Map Guarantee
When you start using your TomTom, if a newer map release is available you can download one complimentary update to your map within 30 days from the time you first start using your TomTom device. Latest Map Guarantee is available via TomTom HOME. Map Share On Demand Updates
Eighteen percent of the nation's road information changes every year. With TomTom's exclusive Map Share feature, you have the ability to update your own map instantly or download verified updates from other drivers. Update your TomTom daily or whenever you wish. Preloaded Maps and Points of Interest
Easily find millions of gas stations, restaurants, hotels, and more on your route with millions of points of interest in over 60 categories.Save Time & Money
TomTom Home Content Manager
Personalize your device in the TomTom HOME Content Manger, where you can subscribe to advanced TomTom services, download new points of interest, voices, and even share your own content with the rest of the TomTom community.Enhance Safety
Help Me! Emergency Menu
Travel with peace of mind. Easily access local emergency providers such as police, fire stations, and hospitals. Announces Street and Place Names
Keep your eyes on the road while your TomTom GPS announces turn-by-turn directions, including street and place names.SAVE MONEY!!!!TomTom VIA 1505M 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Maps
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VIA 1505M, USB Cable, CLA Socket, Adhesive Disk, User Guide, LTM VoucherProduct Description
TomTom VIA 1505M 5.0" GPS Navigator with Lifetime Map Updates. Travel the US, Canada and Mexico with ease and style. This innovative navigator boasts a super-slim design, classic finish, new, intuitive user interface and a 5.0 touchscreen. Never miss your exit with Advanced Lane Guidance. TomTom provides extra clarity when navigating difficult junctions by showing you which lane to take, so you wont miss your turn or have to make dangerous lane crossings. Photorealistic images and a pulsing green arrow indicate exactly which lane to use. (Feature is available in the US and Canada only.) Switch on and go right out of the box. Get the TomTom 1505 GPS Navigator from Brookstonethen enter the address on the screen and start driving!BUY NOW!TomTom VIA 1505M 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Maps
Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars The Absolute BEST GPS Unit out there!!!, April 13, 2011
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This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505TM 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & Maps (Electronics)
In the past, I have owned or used a variety of GPS units. My last GPS unit was stolen from my car. I know that I shouldn't have left in the car, but I have learned a lesson for my laziness. Therefore, I needed to buy a new GPS unit due to my work as a medical transport officer. I reviewed about every brand of GPS units out there and kept coming back to the TomTom 1505TM 5-inch Navigator. I was leary at first to get this unit, but it was advertised to have about every feature that I needed. I said...What the Heck...and bought the TomTom 1505TM 5-inch Navigator. It came last Saturday and I needed to use it as soon as it showed up at my door. Setting it up was so easy, I was thinking...Did I miss something? The screen is very clear and the directions were FIRST CLASS. It even steered me around an accident so that my trip would not be delayed. I needed to stop for lunch and I was sure that my little sandwich joint would not be on it, but I programed it into my TomTom and ALAS...there it was. I was so Very impressed. Later in the day I swung around my son's house and had to show him my new TomTom. He is a confirmed Garmin user and thinks all other brands are just a waste of money. We put my TomTom in his car and drove around. He wanted to give it a rigid test and compare it to his Garmin. After he did several maneuvers on my TomTom (A few, I'm sure, to cause my TomTom to malfunction), even he was impressed and admitted that my TomTom outperformed ANY of the Garmin GPSs that he has owned.
BOTTOM LINE: the TomTom 1505TM 5-inch Navigator with its state of the art technology is by far the BEST GPS unit out there.
5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Grail of GPS units in my book, April 26, 2011
By
Chandler -
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator (Electronics)
That said, because of this, I cannot count the number of GPS units I've owned on two hands. I could probably write a thesis on GPS comparisons. I'd recently given up all GPS purchasing (for the last 1.5 years!) because once I had downloaded the TomTom app on my iphone I thought I'd found nirvana and there was nothing better...wrong again. I just took a nice trip with this unit and I'm floored.
So what's the difference between this and the TomTom iphone app? A lot. What I liked about the TomTom app was that I discovered TomTom had exactly what they claim...more satellites out there so my gps unit wasn't left frozen or "searching" like my old units were. I liked the clear instructions and pictures, I found my love of TomTom BUT I also was handicapped in that I could NOT ever use my phone when using the GPS and, on a long trip, let me tell you, that was not a good thing. And it was horrible when an important call came in even on a short trip. I could never use both at once. Or if I forgot my phone then had to go somewhere, AND the volume was never good unless I plugged it into my iphone jack in the glovebox but then I couldn't listen to the radio, only my itunes songs over and over...I mean the volume is awful on an iphone because it's meant to be heard against your ear, not the windshield and above the radio...still, I figured that was the best there was so I kept the TomTom app and never looked at other GPS units.
Until now. WOW.
SCREEN SIZE:
The things I loved about the TomTom app are still there but there are LOADS of improvements on this GPS unit!! First, the size...quite frankly the iphone screen was pretty small and hard to read when looking at the full coverage map I wanted to see. This is absolutely the perfect size screen at a full 5". I can easily now read street names and information where I could not before.
SPOKEN STREET NAMES:
If you think you don't need this, travel one day with a GPS that doesn't have it and then compare. You'll never go back! Someone on another GPS unit merely saying "Turn right in 1 mile" and then when you get to the one mile mark there is an exit that veers off in two directions, or two exits back to back on your right...oh, it happened often to me on old GPS units that I took the wrong route. This says the name of the street outloud so you always take the right exit or turn on the right street and know what street to look for. Still it's funny when TomTom tells me to take the exit to Waco, TX and pronounces it "Wacko". Makes me laugh every time.
DIRECTIONS YOU DON'T EXPECT:
Some things this does will amaze you. For example, you know how you might be driving into some fancy neighborhood or shopping center and they have a fountain with a street that circles it with streets that fan out from it (like a wagon wheel and it's spokes) this GPS will actually say "Enter the roundabout and take the second street on your right" What?! Now things like this make directions VERY clear when other units get confused. No other GPS company knows what a "roundabout" is apparently. I never knew the name before myself. Another thing TomTom does that I love is the ol' "Turn right and prepare to take an immediate left". Whereas other units would tell me to turn right, then not knowing what's ahead I get into the right hand lane and then it tells me to turn left...if you know you have to take another turn quickly afterwards you drive accordingly and safely. Also if you are going straight on the highway for 70 miles, if there is a place where the road even slightly might confuse you like it veers off to the left and there is an exit to the right it will always say "keep left" where you get no instructions from other units and have a quick panic.
INTUITIVE ADDRESSES:
It will ask you for the state, then city, then street for a reason. It has intuitive recognition of the address so you don't have to type in the entire address. For example, if I put in Texas then "Aus.." it will automatically pull up "Austin" so I click on that and don't need to type in the rest of the letters. Then if I am headed to Guadalupe St. I can type in "Guad" and "Guadalupe" will come up on the screen so I don't have to type in the whole street. For streets that have similar names such as "Peach Tree" and "Peach Grove" it will pull up all streets of similar names so you can just click on it. Of course you can type in the entire address too but this saves you the time. It narrows down the names of the cities in the states you picked then narrows down the names of the streets in that city in order for you to quickly speed through.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? IT WARNS ME WHEN I AM POSSIBLY ABOUT TO GET A SPEEDING TICKET OR MIGHT GET IN A WRECK IN AN AREA?
This was a totally new feature to me I hadn't seen on any GPS before. As I'm playing with the GPS while driving I notice it says something about using the cameras. I actually had to stop and figure out what this was because I had no clue. And this is it:
"More and more drivers are hit by costly speeding fines each year. That's why knowing where the speed cameras are doesn't just make driving safer - it's better for your wallet too. TomTom Mobile Speed Cameras gives you advanced warnings on fixed speed cameras and real-time warnings for mobile speed cameras.
You also get warnings about railway crossings, average speed checks, mobile hotspots and accident black spots."
You remember the old fuzzbusters? Where you would know where the popo was hiding checking your speed? That they outlawed? Cool. Apparently this replaced em somewhat. And to tell you blackspots where an accident is likely to happen? That's worth the unit right there if you know this and avoid it.
If you know you won't speed (I'm typically a speed limit gal myself) it actually shows on the screen what the speed limit is where you are and how fast YOU are currently driving. Sometimes there are speed traps where the speed limit quickly goes down and you aren't sure what the speed limit is. This avoids a ticket for that. You always know.
PARKING GARAGES:
I hate driving downtown in a city to go somewhere because of the hide and seek parking games you have to pay. Or oftentimes I'll travel to a hotel with way-too-expensive parking, or go to see a show or event and not know where to park etc and waste time finding the nearest parking garage....With this, you hit that you need a parking garage where you are or where you are going and SHAZAM it tells you and leads you to the nearest one. Take that, overpriced small lots and hotels!
STREET LABELING:
This was a first for me to see on any GPS. While I felt my TomTom app was better than other GPS company's units in showing the name of where I am going to turn next clearly on the screen the whole time, this unit went a step further. Here in Texas we are known for confusing drivers. Every highway has two names. 183 is also called Ed Bluestein. Martin Luther King (or MLK) is also 969. Route 1 is Mo-Pac. Now here's the issue. Other GPS units I've had chose either the number or the name but not both. However, an exit sign might say "MLK" but not "969" so if it tells you to turn on MLK you might still miss it. Where there are two names or even an exit number (MLK exit 472 for example) if it's confusing, it will give you as much info as it can and always both street names.
REROUTING:
Take the wrong turn or decide to exit and go get a soda? It will automatically reroute. while this is common, this unit does it at lightning speed to get you back on track.
TOPOGRAPHY AND 3-D IMAGING:
This was way better than I'd seen before and the detail surprised me. I passed a building that had a man made fountain going into a pond in front on my left. That little man made decorative pond was on the GPS screen! Where there was a forest on my right, it was all green. But the best part of TomTom is the real 3-D imaging when it's needed most. HIt downtown and things can get really confusing, especially exits. When you hit a situation of congestion like this where you might not know what lane to take or travel in, the screen instantly somehow knows and changes to 3-D imaging...you see the buildings and you see the street signs drawn exactly as though you are looking through your own window and then it shows a flashing arrow of what lane you need to be in, get in or stay in. Love it.
COLOR CODED STREETS:
In busy areas, sometimes it's hard to tell if you are to be on the access roads, a side road or the highway. They are all labeled different colors AND your screen automatically changes when it's nighttime so you don't have a white glare obstructing your driving. It turns to a bluish "toned down" screen but frankly I find the bluish one not as clear to read and so it has options of whatever colors you want your night driving screen to look like in settings. You can change it back to daytime colors or any colors you want.
HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE YOU TO GET THERE AND WHEN YOU WILL ARRIVE:
Type in a route on Yahoo and Google maps and you'll probably arrive long before it thinks you will. It's never right. Many other GPS units aren't either. Because the TomTom uses satellites to track other traffic and your travel speeds this thing hits it right on the nail and adjusts my trip accordingly. For example, last night I drove for 4 hours. When I hit where I was going it told me how long it would take me to get there and what time I would arrive. When I stopped to go to the restroom, came upon a wreck, and when I stopped to eat...it all adjusted instantly so my new arrival time showed on the screen so I knew EXACTLY at all times when I'd get there.
VOLUME:
OMG what a difference! It was 100% impossible to hear my phone GPS if not hooked into my built in car speaker for the ipod. (meaning I couldn't listen to the radio.) Also, you had to adjust volume on both your phone AND in itunes by exiting out of your GPS to adjust it. No more...with one touch of a finger, you can have this yelling above your blaring favorite song or the radio, or a quiet whisper or off when someone is sleeping in the car on a long trip. Everything you need to know is on the screen without the voice but it sure does help me to hear it!
WHICH LEADS ME TO THIS, ONE STEP TOUCH SCREENS:
This is new. Even my ipad and iphone don't have this to this extent on the GPS units. changing volume and going through the buttons is really a one touch deal now and very fast and easy without exiting the map to do it. So is exiting the route and the gps with one touch, it took 3 with the phone and that got hairy while driving sometimes.
GAS STATION LABELING:
This is the best I"ve seen to date, it truly seems to have EVERY gas station drawn in already on your routes. My old gps units would either have none (unless you pulled over and searched for them on the unit after exiting the map) or it would only have a few. This has little signs that tell have the lion for Exxon, a shell for Shell, etc..and if it's a no name generic station? It shows a gas symbol. So now when you are driving there is no worry about searching for gas. You can see way ahead where the station is, what station it is, and which side of the road it's on. And it didn't seem to miss a one of them!
SAVED ROUTES:
Each place you go is saved. Of course you can delete them but I love this. If I went somewhere then I went to 5 other places afterwards, when I am headed back to the original place, I don't have to type in the name of the street and address again...I just go back to "recent destinations" and see it.
READY TO GO OUT OF THE BOX:
No more plugging it in to the computer first etc. Put it in your car, turn it on, go.
SHOWS FINAL DESTINATION STREET NUMBER:
This was an issue on my former units that didn't have this before. The screen would show my final street name but if I was going to a new house and, let's say it's 5221 Smith Street it would say "You've arrived at your destination" and show "Smith Street" on the screen. However, if there were several houses altogether I'd have to find where I wrote down the house number because it never showed on the screen. When you arrive at your destination you will also see the NUMBER with the street name on the top right so you know for certain exactly your destination before you exit the car, without having to memorize it. The GPS did it for me.
TELLS YOU WHICH SIDE OF THE ROAD YOUR DESTINATION IS ON:
I had some units do this and some did not in the past but none as clearly as this one. If you are in a busy city looking for a store and you aren't sure which side of the road it's going to be on, it's hard to always know what lane to be in if you can exit to it from either side of the street. Sometimes I'd get a little flag on the side of the stret it's on but couldn't always see that flag clearly until I was right on it. Sometimes right when I got there it would tell me it's on the right but I'd be in the left hand lane. This unit shows you the destination flag, has a large red circle you enter to know you are there exactly when you are and tells you what side of the street it will be on and shows you a big red arrow pointing to it so even way before you get there you know exactly where it is. No guessing.
REAL TIME RESULTS:
My other units were slower. My car on the screen seemed to be lagging behind what I was doing. This is exact. Far easier.
CAR ICONS AND VOICE CONTROLS:
No more little arrow confusing you. This shows a little silver car on the screen keeping right up with you..but you can change the car icon. It also has a pleasant female voice but you can also change the voice...even the language. I prefer "Samantha" but if I get bored of her "Richard" can tell me where to go!
DOESN'T GIVE YOU JUST WHAT IT "THINKS" IS THE FASTEST ROUTE: GIVES YOU REAL ROUTE PLANS BASED UPON THE CURRENT TRAFFIC AT THE TIME YOU ARE DRIVING IT:
While many maps and GPS units map out your "fastest" route simply by programmed speed limits, this one give you the real deal. It looks at traffic speeds that time of day (remember how it knew your speed to tell you yours vs. the speed limit?) and routes you accordingly. I went the same place 2 days in a row and took a different route both times because it mapped out the fastest one based on traffic speeds, not simply the speed limit.
SEE AND PLAN THE ROUTE BEFORE YOU GO THERE:
We were sitting at breakfast discussing where to meet for lunch. I programmed it in to someone without a gps unit and she actually could see how to get there via a demonstration from the little car driving there on the screen even though we were not in the car...you give it your starting place and ending place and you won't only get the written instructions if you want, but a demo of it, should you desire.
UPDATES:
This syncs to your computer and TomTom allows users to point out discrepencies such as my own neighborhood where they changed the street names a few years ago and some GPS units can't locate my street name at ALL. On the TomTom, because of this, it was updated first. Unlike a built-in car GPS, this makes the difference--it's updated faster when new neighborhoods or streets get built.
PORTABLE:
This may seem like something you don't need...until you do. I went to a new shopping center with loads of stores...no clue where to find the Apple store I was trying to locate after I parked. I plugged it into my GPS and it led me right to it. Especially handy for travel...you can walk the streets and still find your car, or find the 3 stores you want to visit and the restaurant without having to go back to your car. I've done it and it's impressive and very handy that it's purse size...unlike bulkier units, the back of this just pops in and out so you can do this easily.
ACCURACY:
I already knew TomTom was best on it...I've had enough units of varied brands to know. And I believe the TomTom claim that they have the most satellites because of this. I would have not chosen another brand based on experience because of it. This one is equally impressive. Picks up a signal and keeps it and finds where I"m headed.
FAVORITES:
Easily add favorite and frequent places you plan to go back to. Excellent for direction impaired people like myself. You can also name them. For exaample you can label "work", "Ted's house" etc. Then when you want to head back there again, or if you go run an errand in an unfamiliar place and you aren't going home, but stopping by the office, you just hit "work" without having to punch in an address and you are ready to go instantly.
NEGATIVES:
I try to find the negatives in anything I review in order to give a full picture. i LOVE this GPS unit so there is a smal one for me. This, like all my previous GPS units is tricky for me simply because I have a very weird car...my window slants far away from the dash at the bottom, unlike other cars, and my dash board is not plastic, it has a mesh on it. This means putting a unit on the window leaves the GPS too far away from my vision, and I can't stick it to the dash. Now, that said...this allows people with normal cars to do either. I love that it has a totally different suction device that pops out and sticks in an instant to the windshield so should you, say, get your car washed, you just pop it off so nothing goes missing or gets left behind by the workers while cleaning, then you pop it back on quicly. You can do this with your dash too with a piece that attaches to your dash making it flat (it's a little circle) then you pop it on and off that. For me, I use a iphone holder that attaches to my airconditioning vent and pop it in there. I cant use an iphone holder anywhere else either. I saw in the manual that it said to go to the TomTom site for various attachment options but I already had this so it worked fine for me. So...placement is doable but it may take you a spell if you have something outside the norm. Which leads me to my other issue...I'm reading the manual so I know how to start it up and it has very basic directions but if you follow these you may install it wrong because a few pages later after the quick directions end, it tells you where to install it...after you have already installed it...for this reason, flip through the book a bit first if you have any questions on it. The "fast and easy" directions don't give quite the full picture.
Also, when it tells you to enter a highway it will say "merge left" and when I first used this I thought it meant merge to the far left lane. I can see this confused another reviewer on here thinking that it gave her incorrect directions as well. I now know that it will say "merge left then get in the left hand lane" if it wants me to do that. Merge left doesn't mean get in the left hand lane, it will show the car icon merging left onto the highway.
MAP UPDATES:
I'd already done this often with my TomTom iphone app but I figured I'd try it out due to the brand new streets in my neighborhood. Just as easy on this GPS. AND the new streets are there! Easy updates. Incidentally, I wanted to try this out due to the review that said someone couldn't do it. Then in the comments under his review AFTER I took the time to do this, I see he said it wasn't this unit at all that he was reviewing. His issue was with a unit he bought 2 years ago but he put the one star review on this page because now he hates TomTom. **giggle** I think that should be noted, but I wouldn't have taken the time to update it right out of the box had I known this. I can't say whether their unit 2 years ago had problems like he says but, at least for me, this one updated more than I expected due to the newness of the streets and I stuck to reviewing the unit on THIS page but wanted to note it worked fine.
CONCLUSION:
I'm set...I've gone through GPS after GPS and use them MANY times a week. This is, hands down, the best. And it's updated via the computer so I hope it stays that way. No comparison for me.
Note: Someone mentioned trying out the GPS in their car without having hooked it up and it gave them wrong directions. If you don't have it in the right direction it will assume your car is going in another direction, like any GPS does. So it's not actually giving you incorrect directions, you need to afix it to something so it understands it's bearings.
5.0 out of 5 stars Light, Attractive, and Easy to Operate, May 15, 2011
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505T 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics)
Here are our favorite features:
*It's easy to operate. Even a person with minimal techno-savvy could easily understand and follow the directions.
*It's lighter and thinner than the GPS we've been using for about three years. Thus, it's more attractive and less unwieldy. In addition, it stayed on the window without falling off during the entire trip, a major plus in my book.
*The voice (we used the female one) was clear and distinct and pleasant. We were amazed at how "real" it seemed to be.
*The directions were accurate and easy to understand. The name of the next street or road appears in the upper right of the screen. In addition, if traveling on a road with multiple lanes, the device tells you when to move into the appropriate lane.
*As with other GPS's, this one tells the driver the ETA and the number of minutes before arriving at the destination.
*When instructed to turn, the voice used all names of the road. We found that helpful because often a road will have more than one name.
*A time or two, we found ourselves going over the speed limit, and the screen informed us of that fact by highlighting the speed in red!
*This is probably just a "girl thing," but I like the image of the little car navigating the roads.
*As with other systems, the Tom Tom Via 1505 offers up-to-date information about lodging, dining, and refueling options.
I've tried, but I can't seem to think of any features we didn't like. I'm giving it four stars and would recommend it without hesitation to anyone desiring an attractive, lightweight, easy to understand and operate GPS.
5.0 out of 5 stars Won't leave home without it, May 23, 2011
By
L Knerr -
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505M 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Maps (Electronics)
Recently purchased 1505M from Amazon to guide us on a 3600 mile trip from Idaho to Mexico and back. I could not be happier with it. There were a couple of new roads that it didn't know about, but common sense would tell you that you can't make a right turn in the middle of the new bridge at Boulder Dam. It led us on a few short cuts to bypass towns that we didn't really need to go through anyhow. Being used to driving where the closest traffic light is 35 miles away, my main concern was getting through the large cities via the best routes. It did that with flying colors. It took us right up to the door of the hotel in Tucson that we had programed into it. It picked the best of the two border crossings at Nogales and led us through the maze of streets of Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Even though I didn't ask it to, it led us off the main highway through a very picturesque town south of the border to avoid a toll booth. Saved us a few bucks.
For the most part, it would change speed limits within a few yards of the sign on the road. Somehow it knew the reduced speed limits in some construction zones. We made three or four route changes and after asking us to make a u-turn a few times, it would recalculate as soon as we had established a new direction.
The only trouble we had with it was the suction cup mount. The windshield is too far away so we mounted it on the disc on the dash. If we didn't push it down and hold it square and securely, it would pop off after a few minutes. Moistening the suction cup pretty much solved the problem.
All in all, I love it and would recommend it highly.
5.0 out of 5 stars amazing technology, May 12, 2011
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505TM 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & Maps (Electronics)
I love this gps. All the usual stuff is there and works great. In fact, the reason I like Tom Tom better than Garmin is my Garmin never estimated driving time in the city correctly; it was like it assumed I was going to hit every light green. The Tom Tom is far more accurate; but the real news is the traffic updates. It is amazing technology. It is great on highways or in city traffic. It tells me how much of a traffic delay there is, where it is, and if there is a better route. It is remarkably accurate; very clear and very simple; no advertisements to pay for the traffic updates like the Garmin has. I love it; everyone should own one of these! 5.0 out of 5 stars TomTom Via 1505TM, May 19, 2011
By
M. Stewart "Martha" (Jacksonville, FL) -
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505TM 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & Maps (Electronics)
This is my second TomTom, replacing the XL, which had limited memory. I now have unlimited maps and traffic updates, which is very important to me. I've only used it a few times since I purchased it, but it seems to have the most up to date directions. My old one used one of the major roads in my area as a second or third choice. It's very easy to set up and very easy to see. I wish it had a card slot for adding memory, but for right now 2gigs seems to be plenty. I also preferred the old mount, which I could just pull off the base and leave the base attached to my window. I'm not sure that I can't do the same with the Via, but it seems very attached to the base and was shipped as one piece. I'm very happy with the Via so far. 5.0 out of 5 stars So cool!, May 25, 2011
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This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505T 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics)
It shows your current speed, how far and what direction your next turn is and how long before you arrive at your destination. Heck it even shows if you are wavering in your lane!
TomTom is one of the most useful car items I own!
5.0 out of 5 stars Easier than the Garmin!!, April 27, 2011
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This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505T 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics)
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Product !!, May 20, 2011
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ghostrider (USA) -
This review is from: TomTom VIA 1505T 5-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic (Electronics)
This gps is amazing! After looking at every gps on the marked we bought the tomtom 1505t with lifetime traffic updates.The touch screen sensitivity is a little slow but who cares!!! I love how you can save under favorites where you want directions to. So you just click and go!!! How cool is that!! Very easy to operate and get around on the device!!! The voices sound very real, not computer like!!! The directions are clear and understandable. It actually gives you the predicted time to your destination and mileage!! It does'nt take very long to acquire a gps signal. The only thing I absolutely hate about this product is the car windshield mount!!! It is nothing but a PAIN! When you go to take it off the windshield you have to use both hands to get it off the windshield!!! It sounds like when you take it off the windshield is going to break!!!!! One time the mount actually came off the gps and I thought I broke it , but we put it back in place! I gave this product 5 stars because it works very well! I would recommend this product to you!!! 
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