Mobile Phone and GPS

Good morning all.

I have been using a Tom Tom for some years now and have been very happy with
it's performance, however I am thinking a mobile phone with GPS capabilities
could be better for me, not having any experience of these gadgets, could
anyone give me some advice on what to buy. I only need UK coverage really,
but quality is my first consideration. Thank you for any help.

Bryan ( Winchester UK )

Bystander wrote:

I've got a Nokia E71 and it's pretty darned good at knowing where you
are if you've been sat on the top of a hill and had a long picnic. In
central london a couple of weeks ago it wook about 3 hours to work out
where I was.

My Garmin knew where I was.
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Gyp
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Bystander wrote:
If you can live with the odd screen freeze and the fact they're not
updating the maps because it only runs Tomtom Navigator 6 or earlier,
the HP iPaq hw6515 works pretty well for me both in town and in the country.

If not, there's a list of compatible phones for Tomtom Navigator 7 here:-

http://www.tomtom.com/landing_pages/navigator7/en-gb/faq.html#faq-05

Navigon has wider compatibility list on their version 7 product, but the
user interface is very different.

Hope this helps.

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Tciao for now!

John.

Thank you Gyp and John. I think I will stick to my trusty Tom Tom after
reading your observations.

Bryan

Blackberries are OK, although first fix takes too long, even when it knows
[roughly] where you are. As it happens Google maps are better and faster
than the Blackberry ones.