PDA's.

piggy away all you like Nick. Hoipefully someone will have the answers to these most importatnt questions....lol

meow.

rick.

Doggy I had a 206mHz Tshiba that was OK with Ozi, but when I got a 1gig card it was very slow reading it, the Ipaq HX4700 I have now does much better.

A Ipaq 5550 will do the job fine, saw them for $200 last week

Gday Bonz. Tandy have a HP Ipaq rx1950 for $348.
300mhz processor
96mb internal memory
sd/mmc memory type
wi-fi 802.11b,mp3 player,voice recorder.
Do you think this will do the trick?
If i get a extra sd card for Ozzi, what size would i need to fit it all on, or would i need two cards?
then there is the question of ....will the Garmin plug into it? Can these be run off 12v from the ciggie lighter plug? Where do i find a power cord for the Garmin and PDA that will also have a lead going from Garmin to PDA so that i can run moving maps?

meow.

rick.

thatd do OK i reckon Doggy, get them to demonstrate it reading the 1gig card for you but mine ran Ozi fine just struggled with a 1gig sd card

oh and get a combo lead from GPSOz that'll run the GPS and the PDA and will aloow the comms between them and you should be sweet, doe the Geko 201 have a serial com port?

Nick,
Hint Hint Hint It would make an ideal Xmas present from Moses' dad.
Do you want me to tell him or do you want to do it. LOL

whatd the 4 gig card cost Tony and does it runs faster or slower than the SD?

Hi Again,

Below is a link to the USA Dell site.

link Dell Website

They are currently selling units for US$299

Thanks

TonyG

Hi,

The current cost of a 4GIG CF card from ebay as per link below

CF Card Purchase Cost on Ebay

The current cost of a 2GIG SD card from ebay as per link below

Card Purchase Cost on Ebay

For me at least, it made the total purchase affordable, with bluetooth gps, and the ozi explorer software & maps I already had.

Hope this helps

Thanks

TonyG

Hi Bonz,

Forgot to answer your other question,

Spped is fine with CF card, and size of card allows me to have larger maps that I can enlarge and still have clear maps.

I did a lot of testing when convertin natmaps to ozfx3 format to read on pda.

I found that if you shrink to maps to much, you loose too much clarity.

I found that when using natmap mapsheet ecw files, a 2meg file should only be shrunk to about 1meg in ozfx3 format to retain clarity.

With 4gig CF card I am running the following with room to spare

- Ozi CE edition software
- all natmap mapsheet for australia
- all stateview maps of nsw
- all sunmaps QLD
- all great desert tracks
- Copilot navigation software

That is why I think it is a must have to get a pda with 2 card slots

I also purchased the following to get the total system working

- bluetooth gps from ebay @ about $90
- plastic windscreen holder for pda @ about $15 from ebay
- power cable for pda to plug into 12 volt socket from ebay @ about $10
- 3 x 12 volt holder to power pda & gps from supercheap auto @ about $5

Hope this helps

TonyG

yer thanx Tony I read up on the CF card the faster ones transfer rates are 20mb/sec, about twice that of a sd card, theyre the 150x ones, around $200 here, i have the 4700 vga screen and lots of grunt 624 mhz so a 4 gig card would be great I have a 1 gig sd at the mo and its full

I run a Dell Axim X50V which is the previous model and BT338 GPS reciever. I also have a 4gb CF card and 1gb SD card loaded. I run both Ozi and Tom Tom on it.

Richard, have an X50v too but have only a 1gig SD card so far. I found it interesting that on the OziExplorer site they refer to some problems with CF cards except where an SD card was fitted as well, where the problem seemed to be overcome. The designations we are talking about makes htem more powerful than the earlier laptop I had!

Tony, my PDA holder has a data port in the side to direct connect a "normal" GPS but the data acquisition capabilities of the Sirf Bluetooth one is far superior to my Meridian Colour.

get back to the TellY!

GO FORD Ha Ha

Richard, Your assertion is not unpalatable to myself at this juncture

try this one its a bargain

4gb SD whered ya get them