TomTom VIA 135 / 135 M

alaTest has collected and analyzed 350 user reviews of TomTom VIA 135 / 135 M from Amazon.co.uk. The average user rating for this product is 3.9/5, compared to an average user rating of 3.9/5 for other GPS on Amazon.co.uk. Reviewers are impressed by the price and screen. The maps and performance also get good opinions. There are some critical comments about the reliability. Reviews are divided on the design.

TomTom's Via 135 launches the company's surprisingly effective Speak & Go voice control system.

An affordable entry into TomTom navigation? That'll be the TomTom VIA 135.

Is this the right time for voice-controlled sat navs?

Purchased Via 135 after using a Garmin. Works well enough but on several occasions has lost signal at a critical point (in open areas - no buildings of trees) for 20 minutes, whereas my wife's old Tom Tom One, which we often carry as backup now, had no...

this is my second tom tom and frankly cannot fault the unit as a sat nav. However, the windscreen mount is truly awful. It is so fiddly and awkward to fix, worst of all, no matter how careful I am with the fixing, it endlessly falls off the windscreen,...

I have owned this model for a year or more now, on the plus side it has a nice bright screen, the maps themselves are accurate almost all of the time and the overall the spoken instructions given are good. What more could you want from a satnav? Well,...

I bought a Via 135 M Special Edition from Halfords to replace the One series I had used happily for a number of years. I am very disappointed by the inferior sound quality compared with my One version, it is of a very narrow mid to high frequency, and...

my via 135 malfunctioned badly while 3 months out of warranty, informed tom tom and they wanted around a hundred pounds to fix it. I told them that it should last longer than 15 months and that it was not fit for purpose, the young lady gave this...

I too had what I regarded as a failure with my Tom Tom Via. It would not start. I had a dead screen, all black with no sign of life. Sounds like something similar to your problem.AFter having an unsatisfactory experience with the Which recommended...

Great when it works. Sadly, my unit doesn't work very often. It will refuse to switch-on for no apparent reason, even though the battery is fully charged. TomTom acknowledge that it has a fault and want €105.00 to repair it, but will not say what the...