Magellan GPS Companion for Palm V/Vx

User Review: - High Tech Toy
I mainly wanted to use the NAV program to record and plot waypoints. As Mark noted, it's fairly laborious -- erasing the default Wpt00001 name that comes up and then writing in a new name. Worse, once you've marked all your waypoints, no matter what scale you use to view them, they are generally all scrunched together, so you have good data but no good way to view it graphically. Worst of all, no way to download the data to a computer. There is a PDB backup file made in your backup directory, but it's encrypted, so if you wanted to import the data into your plotting program and make a physical map, no such luck. The only software that appears on my computer is a fairly useless help file (i.e. description of all the obvious functions but no real help with HOW to use them or what they are based on). This is one of those high tech toys that works great as a module, but not as an extension of the Palm or computer. Fortunately, I got it as part of a rebate program, and only lost $30 on the deal, not the full $100.

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User Review: - Too limited and with some problems
I buyed it from here, first it is very limited, you cannot transfer the data to a pc, to process it or print. The softwares are not very good.
And theres is a problem, it hangs and dont recognizes the gps, like is not attached to the palm, and you have to reinstall the software in the palm to use it. I dont like it, is not very usefull.

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User Review: - One of the most practical GPS product for a general consumer
The product is a clip-on attachment to Palv V/Vx. Actually you clip Palm on it but it depends on the point of view :))

The gadget is only a GPS reciever -the rest is done by Palm and the software installed on Palm. That concept is both money and wieght saver!

The benefit for those who already owe Palm is that they do not have to drag along another screen, another chip,another software....

And in contrast to stand-alone GPS units is gives a user a much bigger choice of software applications and cuts ubmellical cord to a producer what results in different (lower) prices for the softeare and widens options considerably.
Performance - good performance one woukl expect from a consumer product.
Reccomend to update the bundled softeare - a better version 2.10 of NavComp is availabe on Magellan site. Drawback - when too mny waypoints are loaded becomes reaaly slow - but that ia a softeare problem....
Lack of a solution to feed DC to Palm itself on outsoursed power is strange.
I enjoy it

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User Review: - Less than I expected
I ordered this as a present for my husband, a salesman who tends to get lost but loves gadgets. He was appropriately delighted when he opened it but spent all day (in Los Angeles!) hoping it would find satellites to no avail. Technical support was not helpful. The killing blow was finding out that it does not support an exact street address--it only finds streets. That, and the fact that he would need to download maps before he got in the car each time generated a return slip. Either spend more to get a robust, stand-alone GPS or wait a year or so for the price/performance to improve.

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User Review: - Excellent GPS
I have used this Magellan for my Palm Vx for 5 months. The Nav software is about as good as any handheld GPS. The standard Map software is Ok but it doesn't allow for a route. I added Delorme Solus 3.0 for its mapping and route directions. Now I can't believe what this setup will do. You can down load maps from the internet with route directions complete with turn by turn directions with an alarm to alert you when to turn. You may need to split your trip into sections to go through the cities you want and also download city maps to get more detail of city streets.

Nothing is perfect but for a [$] GPS and [$] for the solus program there is not a [$] handheld GPS on the market that will compare.

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