TomTom VIA 1405TM 4.3-Inch Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic & Maps

I bought this to replace my 2 year old TomTom XL 340, mainly because I wanted the life map updates that were not available when I bought my XL. I called two drives in my car and about an hour to compare them. A couple of obvious differences are that through units are a bit thinner and lighter than the XL series, and the routes has a screen a little better, but honestly I could barely tell the difference. Diagonal lines are a little less irregular way if you look closely, but the higher resolution does not make much difference. The font size is a bit different too. The source of the street now is a bit more about the VIA, but the source of the next street to turn onto a little smaller, you can see in the image on the screen in this site. The street name is green and white and the intention of looking like a traffic signal. The sources were perfectly fine in my XL, and are well on the VIA as well. One thing that has changed, and I think this is new to the line of VIA is that when you are approaching your destination will tell if it is right or left. Drums previous generation could see that side of the street your destination was looking at the screen, but not advertised loudly. This is a slight improvement but not a big problem in my opinion.

As for navigation, the two units are very similar to giving directions. I noticed that in some parts of the screen guide rail kick in XL but not the VIA. I think we've changed the software a bit after realizing that there were moments came when guide rail was not really necessary. Also, I noticed that the output of at least an XL to come out and said "go ahead" (though the screen showed a left turn with an arrow), when it should have said exit and turn left. The XL was wrong, the VIA worked. Again, that was probably the result of the improvements made in software in the past two years. In addition, the XL "exit towards Erie, PA" (pronounced "pa" as in "Papa"), while through this just take the exit to Erie, and not to mention the state. It's kind of useless to say that the State's actions, so that just says a city and leave it at that is good.

And now, the best feature. The reason I would not consider any other brand in the NDP now is because TomTom is the only brand with an excellent EasyPort Mt. I only use my PND when I fly and then rent a vehicle. In my opinion, has built in support for the unit is great. It is much easier to carry and bring it would be if the assembly was a piece of hardware. I had no problem with EasyPort Montes in my two drums. They work great!

I did not want traffic or Bluetooth options, so I went with the "M" instead of "TM" and the 1405 instead of 1435.
Overall, this is a great NDP. I recommend it to anyone who takes more of a PND for use in vehicles. EasyPort mount is excellent and makes for a compact and easy to carry, and TomTom is the only company to offer.