PDA's and Navigation (Palm)

Submitted: Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 18:17

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Tim@Stratford

Evening all,

I have been 'lurking' for a while and have just finished searching the archives for "PDA" and "navigation" but I can't find any answers to the following question....

Is there any software similar to Tom Tom or the newer Papago which will operate on a Palm Lifedrive running the Palm operating system.

My limited research suggests that any of the Palm family aren't any good for navigation due to their operating system not being of the Microsoft family of operating systems.

Thanks in advance...

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Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 20:33

Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 20:33

Pretty right there Tim. I guess that is one of the reasons Palm is migrating it's systems to Windows, stronger apps. Have some good palm ones myself and think the battery life is longer too.

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Follow Up By: Tim@Stratford - Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 23:26

Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 23:26

JohnR,

Thanks for your reply - Is Palm planning on bringing out PDA's with a microsoft OS in the near future? I'm illiterate when it comes to PDA's!!

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Follow Up By: Blaze - Friday, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:19

Friday, Jul 14, 2006 at 01:19

Unless His Royal Highness Bill Gates buys into Palm they will never run the M/S system. This is actually starting to put them behind the eight ball with a lot of applications

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Follow Up By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Friday, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:56

Friday, Jul 14, 2006 at 08:56

Tim, there have been stories in the media since September last year about it. They have ben backed with the people of Palm and Bill Gates to give them substance. One of the drivers has been that their largest customer stopped making PDAs, but their applications lost steam with so many systems requiring connection through Windows drivers, phones, bluetooth systems, wireless. Palm was over run with the initiatives. Treo phones have supposedly been coming out for a while though.

Blaze, best to never say never, when a preditor is in your pool mate.........

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Reply By: AdrianLR (VIC) - Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 22:47

Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 22:47

Navman produce (produced?) a bluetooth GPS mouse that came with SmartST software for Palms with bluetooth - Site Link

A friend has it on his T2 and it works well. Expensive though. There is a bit of GPS software around that does basic things like waypoint downloads.

I've just moved to a windows mobile device and miss my Tungsten C for its speed and mobile-oriented OS but unfortunately Palm haven't kept up with converged devices.

Adrian

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Follow Up By: Tim@Stratford - Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 23:30

Thursday, Jul 13, 2006 at 23:30

Adrian,

Thanks for the info - I was impressed with what I read about Papago - Might have to do some more research - or get a non Palm OS PDA.

Can you compare this Nav System to Papago?

Thanks again.

Tim@Stratford.

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Follow Up By: AdrianLR (VIC) - Saturday, Jul 15, 2006 at 22:03

Saturday, Jul 15, 2006 at 22:03

Tim,

I've only briefly looked at the Navman system and haven't used PaPaGo so can't compare them at all - sorry.

Palm have a Windows Mobile device - the Treo 700 which is a Treo 650 with Windows but it's not in Aus yet.

Adrian

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