🧑‍💻 21 days into the XI

 🧑‍💻 not apropos of anything

The name is the dollar store or Dollarama. not so, my friend. To wit, I took the plunge and replaced the Garmin GPS. I'm pretty sure that it dates back to 1999. BUT promised life time map updates. And that happened.
Ah. There is no backup storage and the download take an hour. The 12 V charging cable frayed and was close to useless. I purchased a ' Garmin ' like power cord. Did the job.
This year, I tried to turn on ' traffic assist '. Oh, I discovered the FM antenna was the Garmin power cable. Uh oh !
And w / age for my eyes, the screen was much too small. I suppose there might be enlarge functions on the Garmin. Time to change.

The knock off Yi brand, was 1 / 2 the price. The big change and I mean bi,  was a 9 inch screen. And it suits nicely.
The mounting instructions incl. ' choose a place on the windshield not blocking your view '
Excuse me - at 9 inches the GPS is the view if placed under the mirror.

Dollarama. In electronics, I found a non slip [ low slip ] pad for an I phone. There is a notch on either side to accept the edge of a cellphone. Well, guess what, it also takes the bottom edge of the GPS. I still use the windshield mounting bracket and suction cup but as a balance behind the GPS.
The YGPS sits on the dash, not sliding and seems stable. A tad higher than the Garmin b / c you see the Garmin was on a bean bag support base. Maybe an inch difference

Observations. The screen is beuti ! The woman s voice not so. I can see the streets clearly.

Not fine,  The YGPS sends you where it wants. To get to Port Union and # 401, taking the # 401 makes sense. The Yi - GPS, wanted me to drive thru the city. Nope. Now, it did ' re - calculate ' and I got there. But you need to check your route. 
To be fair, I haven't read all the instructions for ' customization ' 
So ......

Turn down the voice [  a lot ]. Read the broken English blurp.

OK. As well, the Dollarama had a ' mouse pad w / wrist bump '. There was a groove between the pad and wrist bump, aha ! ' would it fit the bottom edge of the YGPS. Obviously,  a non starter b /c I got the cellphone pad to work. However, I'm trying the mouse pad and the worst bump does work. There is a sharpness to the desk edge and the ' bump ' covers that edge, thank you.
Oh, both items were $ 1.75.