Member Since: 11 May 2006
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Pocket PC PDA/GPS
Whilst others do battle to get their supercomputers working in their cars, I'm looking for recomendations for a Pocket PC PDA, either with GPS or via a bluetooth receiver. I'm looking at a £200 max budget & thinking of the Mitac Mio P350. This is to run Memory Map & replace my now dead iPod.
I've a hx4700 ipaq which , quite simply, has the best screen around....and it has a cf and sd slot and it has bluetooth and wifi.......pretty much does it all if you need a plain vanilla pda (works well with a cheapo ebay bluetooth gps)
try and get a decent display....some out there are unreadable in a sunny car.2007 HSE Java Black.....sold
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ps, plenty available cheap on ebay...usually go for around £100-130 or so2007 HSE Java Black.....sold
2007 B150 Horizon Blue
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The Master of Suave !
Member Since: 02 Jan 2005
Location: Germany... Not far from both the US and Hard German rock...
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Well I went down the way of the Palm and not the Pocket PC myself...
My setup comprises a Treo 650 (GSM and Palm in the same package) and a separate BT receiver (Seidio RBT 2010 in my case...). The Trèo 650 is no longer available but the new Trèo 680 which is basically the same, is just around the corner with the first deliveries expected this week...
As for software I use the TTQV/PathAways setup. Works a charm for me but others do prefer Pocket PC or other softwares.
The price at 299£ is more than what you expect, but...
http://eurostore.palm.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP...%20Kingdom
Beware though that the new one is so far untested and that the BT call receiving function had troubles handling calls and GPS reception at the same time on the 650...Georgia On My Mind...
30th Nov 2006 4:15 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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I've been messing around with TTQV & Pathaway, good for what I'm looking for but for the price of activating TTQV (on demo version at the moment) I could almost buy a new PDA and use the Memory Map OS maps I have already that are Pocket PC only. Also my palm (Garmin iQue 3600) likes to crash a lot so am constantly resetting it on the move. Fugawi seems to dislike it intensely!
Since my iPod died on Tuesday I'm trying to kill two birds with one stone & use the music player on the PDA as a glorified iPod.
30th Nov 2006 5:09 pm
Gurvan
Member Since: 02 Jan 2005
Location: Germany... Not far from both the US and Hard German rock...
Posts: 1089
DSL wrote:
The Memory Map OS maps I have already that are Pocket PC only.
If TTQV can open those Memory Map OS, then it can transfer them to the Palm...
My Treo is stable habitually...
Edit : I forgot to add that the treo 680 seems to tolerate certain 4gb SD Card... Tha could replace a "small" iPod... Not a 60Go, of course, but... There is even an AAC player (Which won't read the protected ones from iTms...) ! Georgia On My Mind...
30th Nov 2006 5:11 pm
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Member Since: 03 Jul 2006
Location: Oberon, NSW
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I have just got a Garmin M4. Works well but school zones are a pain. it gives a warning outside of school hours.
But I can run ozi explorer on it for off road and fire trails, do routes, tracking and way points. Trying to fit it so it wont wobble, I'll post the solution, when I have found it.
It may be a bit more than 200 uk pounds.“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely gamesâ€
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