stick with TomTom Wired or change to Bluetooth

[CanarySlayer]

Hi

I wonder if anyone has any views on whether I should change from the standard silver wired TomTom GPS receiver with my Ipaq 2210 and TT Navigator 5 to the bluetooth version (i believe the mark ii is the latest).

I appreciate that one lets me 'wander around' but is there any other benefit to changing.

Or is there a 'better' bluetooth on the market which IS worth changing to

Thanks in Advance

[bedbug]

For me the benefit is simply the lack of wires etc. The receiver seems sensitive enough that I can leave it stowed out of sight when in use, meaning that if I leave the car for 2 minutes I can grab my PDA and not have to struggle with wires etc. The receiver auto powers down if it loses Bluetooth communication for a few minutes, so I don't even need to worry about running the battery down when I do up and leave.

The other benefit is that it's much more easily ported to a different bit of kit - assuming that future devices continue to support bluetooth - without having to worry about different connector types etc.

The only potential disadvantage I could see would be with bluetooth communications - but that's instantaneous and has never - not ever! - failed in six months or so (and I can't be the only person to take a corner a bit sharp without securing the receiver, watching it wizz across the dash and end up in the passenger footwell, where it stayed for the remainder of the journey while TT didn't flinch, working flawlessly throughout!).

If, however, you're using a smartphone, be sure that there's facility to Bluetooth a headset and the receiver simultaneously, otherwise you might find (pretty much as I do with my Treo 650) that you're not a smartphone anymore while using Nav.

Now whether TomTom is the right brand, is IMHO, a much more significant question. It's treatment of customers for a forward-thinking hi tech company is nothing short of arrogant and appalling. But I can't fault the Bluetooth receiver or integration with my PDA.

N.B. I'm speaking here of the Mk II receiver c/w NAV 5 for Palm OS, NOT PPC.

Good luck with your decision.
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iPhone 4/4S (iOS 5.1.1); TomTom Western Europe (1.10)/USA & Canada (1.10); CoPilot for iPhone (8), UK mapping, Mac OS 10.8/XP Pro/Win7; Tongue firmly in cheek!

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