Seeking Fujitsu-Siemens PDA/GPS review

Hello - looks good, its not the only PDA with integrated GPS though, there are others. Can you get them in Australia? How much? I did a quick search but could not find Australian site
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Greg

Like Greg said, others will fit the bill as PDA and GPS. My Acer N35 is one of them, it's a bit slow by todays standards but it does the job.

Regards, Trevor.

Thanks folks, I don't know whether it's available here yet, or its price. What makes it unique, as far as I know, is that it's the only one with a VGA hi-res display (480 x 640) AND on-board GPS.

I use/ program/ maintain pda's and their accessories on a daily basis for mobile GIS/ asset mapping and have never seen a good inbuilt receiver in all the units I've played with (lots). We have stayed with the good old CF slot receiver because of its simplicity (no cables or sketchy bluetooth), low cost and reliability.

I run 3 field crews who do their best to break the stuff and in 2 years we've only had 2 receivers and one pda retire hurt. Just my opinion but avoid the inbuilt ones if you can.... they cost more for an inferior positional fix

I was going to post this myself today but here it is here anyway. I have just bought a HP6515 ipaq with inbuilt gps, along with lots of other stuff.

I loaded oxiexploerer ce and my NATMAP maps. I had some original problems getting the map calibration right but eventually converted the entire Zone 50 map with the map file from Oziexploer setup CD. It took a good 2 hours for my laptop to convert to the right format and copy to the pda a file that is about 250mb.

This morning on the way to work i let it track along and the recorded track on the NATMAP (1:250,000) is so accurate it even shows the side of the road i was on.

Screen has good resolution but i have no idea what resolution it is, it does get hard to read in bright light.
But as i reckon for the cost (salary sacrified) and the amount of use it will get as a GPS it is possibly the best and cheapest moving map solution.
Certainly tehre are better but as it will only get occasional use it suits me.

Alan

we're considering kitting our work guys out with something like this

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a much more useful form factor for mobile work and runs a real OS [as real as windows gets :)] Still pretty exxy though! But if you have the $$$ they look so good the missus might get jealous. They'd be fantastic for navigation!