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Recently, I got my hands on the palmOne GPS Bluetooth unit, and I've been playing around with it in my spare time. It comes bundled with TomTom Navigator, and I've got to say that this is one of the best applications for any platform (let alone the PalmOS) that I've ever had the pleasure to use. The GPS unit itself is pretty compact but seems to pick up the GPS satellites quickly and acurately. Its battery life also seems quite reasonable considering the amount of radio activity it has to utilize. However, it's the TomTom Navigator software that really shines. Even though it's running on a handheld, the application does everything that I could imagine a GPS application would do. It will show you your velocity, your direction, driving instructions, route planning etc. You can zoom quicky in and out of maps, and the maps can even be displayed in a 3-D perspective corrected view so that it looks like you can see yourself driving down the road! It also will speaks driving directions to you if you plan a route, and these are good driving directions. The audio is clear, and the software does a bit of predictive logic with its instructions. For example, it will tell you "At the end of the road, take a left" or "In 300 yards you will take a right and get onto the freeway". That's so cool! I could gush for a long time about this application. Oh, and the maps themselves are incredibly detailed and accurate as well. My carpool partner and I used it on our drive this morning, and we discovered geographic features (like rivers and ponds) that we didn't know existed even though we drive by them every day. All I can say is wow. If I had a job where I had to drive to different places, I would plunk down the $449 for this bundle in a heartbeat. If you have a chance to play with this application, I highly recommend that you do. It's very, very well done. |
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| Submitted by bosshogg on Wednesday the 31st 1970f December 1969, at 04:00 | |
