[robotphood]

Ah, sorry for the confusion BustedNuts1. I did not catch when you said "next exit". Just TTS and the replies after. jmorton is right.

TTS = turn by turn with street names/highways/freeways/etc

I definitely need TTS, LA/socal has too many streets and freeways! Plus, the Diamond screen is a bit small for me to glance at all the time. As for the navi software, I personally prefer iGO8/TT7 over Garmin XT. They all pretty much have the same features (with a few extras inbetween) but:

Garmin didn't draw the maps as fast for me. Also the navigation wasn't as precise/clear. IE; Before a fork in the freeway it would tell me to stay on the right lane but it didn't mean to take the right ramp but rather stay on the right lane of the left ramp because there were 2 lanes and one led to carpool (marked as avoid). Little things like that didn't happen in TT or iGO. However, it did have the best POI searching of the 3. I think it even has integrated google search now (I used an early version)?

TT7 is clean, fast and precise. I really like everything about it. POI selection is lackluster though (worst of 3).

iGO8, tons of skins available (even cars to replace the cursor!). Very customizable. Fast and precise. Similar interface to TT. Stock interface can be a little cluttered but you can always change it up with skins (TT also has them I believe but I never used them). One downside to iGO is that it requires a decent amount of memory to run it because of TTS (especially the high quality voices) and the 3D buildings. It also takes quite long to load up, around 25-30 seconds!

Hope that helps a bit. Keep in mind there are a lot of features I don't even touch on these programs. I mainly use them to navigate and search points of interest. Nowadays I usually just launch up google maps or live search for local searching because it's faster.