Is this £350 PDA Satellite Navigation program any good?
HS
I've seen Powerloc Destinator available with a free 128MB card at
www.destinator.co.uk and the reviews seem positive, but I wonder what your
real-life experience of this program is.
It really appeals to me to be able to use my Pocket PC hardware and colour
screen for SatNav and just buy this £350 add-on, rather than pay £1,800 for
the same hardware again. What a waste that would be. But it needs to work
right and I'm worried this may not.
Is it slow due to Pocket PC processor speeds?
Does it have an ETA function?
How up-to-date are the UK maps?
Is it reliable? Don't want to get stuck out in the middle of nowhere.
TIA.
Humphrey Sidman
Mark R Penn
http://www.pocketgps.co.uk/mapcompare.asp for comparative reviews - just
look at the sample maps for both products, and you'll see what I mean,
especially when you get down to street level. The quality of the maps makes
all the difference).
Destinator works just fine, or at least it does for my colleague, but he
keeps on telling me he wishes he'd bought Navigator!
And it's cheaper!!
See http://www.palmtop.nl/ce/navigator.html for details and mail order.
I really cannot fault Navigator - it works exactly as it should, and I could
not manage without it now.
HTH,
Mark
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Mark R Penn
about the same price, but I still recon there is no comparison.
BTW - you need about 85 Mb of storage for the full UK map in Navigator, so
you WILL need the card!!
Mark
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Ron Clarey
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Just remember the battery drain on the PDA is high so you will get very
little usage compared to an EMAP or similar. The speed is ok for your
use, it is on my old Casio 115 and Tom Tom maps when I can get it to
work.
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Ron Clarey
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Mark R Penn
power the whole lot from the cigarette lighter.
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HS
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Mark R Penn
I don't think you'll be disappointed with Destinator, because GPS software
on a PPC is so impressive anyway, it's just that Navigator does it best
IMHO. It's all down to the quality of the maps - good ones make it so much
easier to follow the route.
Mark
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peter
>Yes, forgot to mention that. The Navigator one does too.
>
>I don't think you'll be disappointed with Destinator, because GPS software
>on a PPC is so impressive anyway, it's just that Navigator does it best
>IMHO. It's all down to the quality of the maps - good ones make it so much
>easier to follow the route.
>
for download.
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Peter