Which One? TT Go, TT3 Palm or TT3 Pocket?

MrRubberGloves

I am on the lookout for a sat nav for my taxi for when working in and around Blackpool and when travelling down to Spain (on holiday).

I have set my sights on a TomTom but too be honest I admit to being a little disheartened to read some of your comments on the product and am now having second thoughts.

I quite like the idea of the TT Go as it is an all in one piece of equipment instead of a pocket or a palm where your GPS receiver is seperate.

On the TT Go and TT Palm (Tungsten) are there errors on these products that are on the TT Pocket?

Basically all I am asking is in your minds which product do you think is the best, TT Go, TT Palm or TT Pocket?

Thanks in advance.

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DavidW · Posted: Sun May 09, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject:

I'm not really in a position to answer your questions - but I believe Go is not yet available to buy (if it is, nobody has yet posted their experiences here), and the Palm product is much newer than the Pocket PC one, as well as only working on two possible Palm models.

Maybe Mike will be able to give you some insight - bearing in mind that he wrote the Navigator for Palm review.

Be aware that, at the moment, Navigator for Palm has no support for POI files, and I don't believe there's any POI warning software for it, either. I believe there's no plans to support TomTom Traffic in the current version of Navigator for Palm either.

Go has the advantage that it has an inertial sensor, so it will continue to navigate if you temporarily lose GPS signals.

David

trafcam · Regular Visitor Joined: 30/10/2002 11:57:49 Posts: 155

Dave · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:24 am Post subject:

Doesn't the Palm still allow for multiple programs running in memory, or is it just saving the state ? I've found before that if I open up one program, goto a screen or type some text, then goto another one, then click home and go back to the first app it seems to keep the data there, or am I missing something ?

Certainly the Palm and GO release currently have no support for add-on customisable POI's at the moment.

trafcam · Regular Visitor Joined: 30/10/2002 11:57:49 Posts: 155

Yes, that's just state-saving on the application as you switch away from it. Part of the Palm developer guidelines are that applications start very quickly, giving the appearance of being always running.

I know Palm OS 5 has some limited multitasking support but I don't think it's real multitasking and more for system-level stuff than applications, but the information on Palm OS Cobalt (the name for Palm OS 6) specifically talks about it being a "multitasking and multithreading OS". Whether this means an end to the reliability of Palm OS is another matter, of course...

Dave

Dave · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 1:12 pm Post subject:

trafcam · Regular Visitor Joined: 30/10/2002 11:57:49 Posts: 155

Overtake Microsoft? It's only in the last couple of months that PPC market share has outshadowed that of Palm.

I think Palm's problem is that they had a few years of in-fighting and messing around, and it showed in the products like the m105, m500 series - they were all pretty much the same thing, with little to choose between them. Now the Tungsten range and the Treo devices is starting to have the same facilities that the Pocket PC devices have, it's now the Pocket PCs that all look the same. To be fair this is largely down to the PPC specification, but the fact that Palm OS only supported 160x160 screens didn't stop Sony bringing out Hires on the Clie's long before Palm did their version.

One thing you can say for Microsoft is that they're good at selling - witness the sheer number of manufacturers offering Pocket PC devices, far more in number than those offering Palm OS devices. Though it does say something that even with all that choice, it's taken this long for PPC to match the sales figures.

Anyone get the impression I'm a Palm fan?

Dave · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject:

I used to be a heavy palm user, but switched to the Casio E105 and haven't looked back since (well once or twice-but there was no comparison). The T2 and T3 are the closest Palm have come to the Pocket PC and I do like them, the only thing is the Palm OS just like Windows CE isn't 100% robust, in my testing recently I've been hitting the soft reset switch nearly as much as I do on the Pocket PC :x

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