Page 1 of Couple of Sat Nav PDAs

Don`t know much about GPS PDAs but these may provide a useful comparison to Somerfield offer posted recently

**Sat Nav** Palm Zire 31 GPS Solution - Incl. Zire 31 And Voice Guided GPS £161.69 £189.99 inc VAT
Quickfind code: 77993

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Key Features:
Zire 31 handheld with colour display, SD/MMC expansion card slot to add memory and built-in MP3 player¹
ViaMichelin GPS Navigation Pack : GPS receiver, tailor-made cradle for the Zire™ 31, MapSonic Voice Navigation Software, complete country map
Select destination from handheld's address book
3D map and route display
Day and night modes
Voice guidance: 12 languages available
Large, customisable points of interest library: car parks, petrol station
Automatic repositioning




**Sat Nav** Acer N35 PDA 266MHz 64MB SDRAM 32MB Flash with Integrated GPS UK £197.45 £232.01 inc VAT
Quickfind code: 82044

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Features

Samsung Processor at 266MHz
Microsoft Windows Pocket PC 2003 Premium
64MB SDRAM
32 NAND Flash Memory
SD (SDIO)/MMC Slot
3.5" transflective TFT
256MB SD Card (UK and Ireland maps)
Destinator 3 Software
Integrated GPS receiver
Dimensions: 120 (L) x 72 (W) x max. 20 (H) mm
Weight: 165 g
Built-in microphone and speaker3.5 mm stereo earphone jack
Rechargeable 1000 mAh Li-ion battery 8-hour battery life when backlight is inactive 3 hours to fully charge
Warranty: Two years Collect-and-return (first year international warranty)

And both cheaper than the crappy Medion standalone unit at TRU!!

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About now im having amnesia and deja vu. I think Ive forgotten this before :D

worth looking here to... www.totalgps.co.uk



`I am going to live forever, or die trying`...

I have the Acer N35 and can fully recommend it. I`ve put a 1 gb sd card in it, and it now holds all the sat nav software, games, music etc I need.

The Destinator software is good and gets you where you want to go the only down side is that you can`t download the speed camera database to sit alongside it (I think with Tom Tom you can?).

Cheers,
Rich.

Rich, might be worth checking out http://www.pocketgpsworld.com for the speed camera database, the forum I found to be as helpful as a heart attack but you might drop lucky ;)

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About now im having amnesia and deja vu. I think Ive forgotten this before :D

This item was edited on Tuesday, 26th July 2005, 22:18

Crappy Medion unit?

Whats wrong with the Medion? The only thing I can fault with it is that the plastic body feels cheap but i`ve had no problems with the quality of mine.

Does anyone have any experience of `obtaining` and the use of maps for other countries - US, Germany, France, Italy, etc.

Can this be done and if so how much do they cost ??

You can`t beat a good bargain !!!

Mapopolis do software & (9 days) time limited demo maps that work well for Palm, Pocket PC & Smartphones.

I am actually going to take the years subscription & d/l the US\Canada maps that I require for my holiday this time.



I quite like the Helpdesk people in a benevolent (as opposed to malevolent) way as they do some valuable work in preventing us being inundated by every halfwit who can work a phone.

I too have the Medion PDA model, no compalints at all. Came with 4 CD`s with all the maps of Europe down to street level so no need to shell out extra.

Sam.

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Crappy Medion unit?


Yup, had 2 units from TRU and both had a nasty habit of loosing sat signal, sometimes for as long as 10 minutes. Also the amount of time the unit takes to re-fresh a route when you get it wrong is silly. Maybe I was just unlucky?

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