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| CATEGORY: | Electronics |
| MANUFACTURER: | Magellan |
| FEATURES: | Sleek and lightweight design, Combines GPS technology and Rand McNally Streetfinder navigation software, Provides turn by turn guidance to your destination, Graphical GPS displays your speed, heading, distance to destination, and more, Compatible with Palm m500 |
| TYPE: | GPS (Global Positioning System), Units, map (mapping), navigation, PDA, Laptop |
| MEDIA: | Electronics |
| MPN: | 980621-01 |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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| UPC: | 763357103816 |
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Customer Reviews of Magellan GPS Companion for the Palm m500
Good, but could be much better Before I got this GPS, thought the Magellan Companion was a great idea. The unit itself can run for 12 hours on 2 AAA batteries, the software is loaded on my Palm, I can use it to charge my Palm using the power adapter and I can store the maps on SD memory card on my Palm.
I received the unit and it was light, pretty well built and snapped on to the M505 very nicely. The Nav Companion software for the Palm was also pretty good. However, the Rand McNally mapping software, which is a seperate application was another story. When I first loaded the software on my computer, it looked very promising. It took a lot more space that I had anticipated, but since it had details map of the US as well as thousands of POI, it was that big of an issue.
The trouble began when I try to download a map to my Palm, it kept telling me that the current map area was too large. Then I discovered that I had to zoom in to leve 7 before it allow me to export to my Palm. Well, at level 7 of the Los Angeles area is almost 10MB. I went ahead and download the map to my memory card.
Even worst, when I actually connected my Palm to the GPS and turned it on, it took almost 5 minutes before I got a lock. During my driving trip, I came to the edge of the map that I downloaded and I got a message that I have reach the end of the map and that the GPS will turn off. I could still use the Nav Companion software to track my coordinates, but no map.
So in conclusion, I think it's a good product, but the mapping software needs some major improvements. At least my MAP 330 has a basemap.
Hooray for Magellan! Boo for RandMcNally!
With the right software, (Quo Vadis, Fugawi, GeoNiche) this item works great.
Rand McNally software works fine for directions on a PC, but the maps are too large and clunky when downloaded to the palm. Built-in GPS tools are very limited in the software as well.
Really like how versitile my Palm515 has become.
For 80 bucks (plus other software) you can have a pretty good GPS.
Don't drop it though.
Palm User
The StreetFinder software tends to have a problem when you have a large SD card attached (512MB - Even without map on it!) When you select the changing map option, the StreetFinder goes into la, la land (I only waited 5 min & soft reset). But if you pop out the SD card it will function normal again.
I'll try a 128MB card with 60x write speed. Probably not going to make much difference. Anyone knows a work around on this?