pocket pc gps thingy

I'm after a replacement for my ageing toshiba 740 and cheapo CF gps card,

I'd like one of the pda's that have a built in gps jobbie, but i want one
with the latest sirf 3 chipset of what ever it is, able to get a sat lock in
bad conditions and fast and all that.

Want to be able to run the latest tomtom versions, have a decent battery
life when using it handheld (toshiba manages just over an hour.. useless)
must have wi-fi connection, no real need for blootoof but it seems
unavoidable nowadays,

What i'd really like is a gprs connection so i can fall back on my t-mobile
data card sim i use in the laptop when i cant get on the net via a wifi
spot, but i dont think there's any of those phone pda's with a built in gps
dongle,

I guess if i could add a low profile gps dongle to a phone pda, on thats got
the latest chipset then that's do me, but i do not want a blootoof gps
dongle, we regulary drive for 10 or so hours when abroad, so the blootoof
dongles batteries would be dead long before we got where we were going,
plus i dont want the hassle of another battery to keep charged,

The gps dongle i have now is a good 4 inches tall, and quite bulky, are
there any plug in gps dongles that are low profile... also must have an
external antenna socket as i drive a motorhome with a large overhanging
luton section that blocks any view of the sky from the dash area.

In their most recent outburst: Hairy Arse ranted:

MDA Compact III

http://www.powerupmobile.com/product-2-108.htm?gclid=CIH6yojm0IgCFSlBMAod3HBtRQ

card,
t-mobile
gps

After thinking about how much i really use my mobile phone, and where...
which is:
at home hardly ever, £5 top up lasts me over a month, when abroad i use a
call back sim that gives me free recieving of calls and 30p calls to
anywhere in europe from anywhere in europe,

And for mobile internet... i use that only when out in the motorhome, and
since last year that's been 95% of the time abroad, i can't afford the
tarrif for a european use gprs/3G data bundle, i'm not even using my laptops
data card with it's 100mb data allowance (gprs only) for £13.50 a month
anymore.

Soooo, i think i'll scrub the requirment for a phone/gprs/3g connection on
the pda i get, wifi is of far more use to me, most of the pda phones with
gps dont have wifi to start with, and i can always use my phone to act as a
modem for the pda if i need it to.

So i really want a decent pda that runs pocket pc 5 (i believe that's the
latest edition, the toshiba's stuck on ppc2002) i really want a decent
resolution screen for playing back aerial video's i get from my RC plane,
usb connector is a must then to connect the planes camera for downloads of
the vids,
sirf 3 gps, idealy one with the antenna on the top rather than a flip out,
but a flip out antenna would be ok if i can get all the other bits i want..
just must be the sirf 3 gps type, as i regulary drive through tall city
blocks, leavy lanes, up mountians etc, and my current set up is pretty naff
in that respect.

I use an Acer n311.

http://tinyurl.com/ymhov9

It has a 480 X 640 resolution display, nice and sharp and a USB host plus a
few other bits and bobs.
Doesn't have a built in GPS receiver so I use a bluetooth mouse. This is
better IMO as you can place the mouse where reception is best which is not
always where the screen is.

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Geoff

Hairy Arse said:

you're missing the point, the benefits and the huge subsidies.