Advice on buying a handheld PC

[Helevitia]

My buddy bought the Garmin iQue the other day and seems to really like it. I played with it for a few minutes and it was decent. I've never owned a PDA before so I didn't really know what I was looking for. I specifically asked him to show me the GPS functionality. It seemed fairly intuitive and easy to use. That's all I can offer

Dave

[Wombat]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy

Last time I looked (few years ago), most Palms couldn't even play MP3s, except a new Sony model that has a decoding chip in it. And that for the same money, CE-based PDAs usually have more memory.

That was before. PalmOS 5 is really out for one reason: they've entirely changed the processor. PalmOS 4 and earlier ran on Dragonball processors, which are an evolution of the Motorola 68k. PalmOS 5 machines run on ARM chipsets. WinCE runs on Intel X-Scale, which is also an ARM/StrongARM derivative.

[Taz]

The cheapest I've seen the Garmin iQue 3600 for is £525.00 inc VAT, surely it would be cheaper to get a regular Palm and a GPS add-on

[WyWyWyWy]

Originally posted by Taz
The cheapest I've seen the Garmin iQue 3600 for is £525.00 inc VAT, surely it would be cheaper to get a regular Palm and a GPS add-on

Big rip-off isn't it...
525GBP = 928USD...

I just read the newspaper, Dixons/Currys is offering a cheap brand CE-based 400mhz, 16bit colour for about 350 pounds with free GPS module (wired I think) and two 256mb MMC. Sounds a good deal, I'm considering that.

Anyone know of a Palm-based car use GPS app as good as TomTom2 for CE?
(It reads the route you need to go, such as "2nd left at the next roundabout", and it has speed camera data - "warning, speed camera ahead 200yards".)

The Tungsten is quite interesting. And so is HP range.
I think I seriously need to immigrate to the US of A >_<

Thanks.

[Taz]

Noticed this on TomTom's website

Palm OS
TomTom RoutePlanner supports most Global Positioning Systems (the NMEA 0183v2 standard) for Palm OS® handhelds. When used in conjunction with a plug-and-play GPS TomTom RoutePlanner can pinpoint your exact location and display your position on the map. TomTom RoutePlanner can then track your progress to the desired destination, redrawing the map whenever necessary and making it impossible to get lost even when travelling in a country for the first time.

So you should be able to use it with a third party GPS receiver such as those sold here :-

http://www.globalpositioningsystems.co.uk/index.php