PDA and sat nav advice

[davrian]

I have an HP 5550 and planned to put sat nav software on it. However it seems that the cheaper jacket/ software is incompatible with this model. I keep being quoted £300+ for Tom Tom etc. Any (very non technical) advice?

[clarkey]

I use TomTom 3 with a HP 5950, it is excellent. Not cheap but it does the job very well.

[Nighthawk]

who quoted 300 notes for tom tom 3?

I got the tom tom software for around £100 as I already had a royaltek sapphire gps thingybob from my laptop based satnav.

30 quid for a car charge/gps power cable
25 quid for a car holder
and the price of the software.

ebay is full of people selling gps sensors, for about 50 notes

[mike_e]

Bluetooth TomTom3 will work with the 5550, not more than £170, cheaper if you shop around. Car kits from £25.00.

[Aprisa]

Don't buy the Co-Pilot jacket as produced by HP as the voice software will not work on the HP5500, tom tom will work fine though as it is voice files rather than text-to-voice.

HTH Nick

[golfman]

I have seen the tom tom go stand alone gps which is very good.

however i have no idea what pda to get, any suggestions?

Also see:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3730&item=5113021898&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

[davidd]

I'm using a dell axim x30 which was about £300 plus tom tom which was about £130 inc the kit.

There are some good offers on

www.totalpda.co.uk

D

[johnp68]

Or have a look at:

Spotlight Mio 168 + TomTom Navigator 3 GB + 128MB SD Card

on:

www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/viewprod.php?product_id=761&PHPSESSID=72b5ed17551f78d4282573881105f848

I bought one recently and it's very good.

[Psychobert]

Been using Tom Tom with an ipaq and I think its excellent.. Gets me around and copes quite well with replanning the route when I miss junctions in town..

[ARH]

johnp68 said:

Or have a look at: Spotlight Mio 168 + TomTom Navigator 3 GB + 128MB SD Card on: www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/viewprod.php?product_id=761&PHPSESSID=72b5ed17551f78d4282573881105f848 I bought one recently and it's very good.

Me too

superb bit of kit, just can't help taking the wrong turn and getting told to turn round.

[AllTorque]

Dumb question, but are they loud enough to hear over a roaring engine?

[Nighthawk]

the standard ipaq is adequate during normal driving i find.

BUT, if your car is noisey or your tunes are up, opt for an active mount. craddles by seideo and brodit have an amplified speaker built in and get round the issue quite well.

HTH

[johnp68]

AllTorque said:

Dumb question, but are they loud enough to hear over a roaring engine?

I was worried about this and so made sure that the Mio was loud enough before I bought it. I often drive "enthusiastically" with the hood down and I can still hear the instructions fine.

[ARH]

AllTorque said:

Dumb question, but are they loud enough to hear over a roaring engine?

My mio is just about hearable in my mx5 at 90 ish mph, but is way more hearable in the jag. Overall though the instructions are clear and it is just the motorway junctions that you have trouble hearing due to the speed, you still don't miss them though