Handheld query [sorry if in wrong area]

colinuk · 12 Oct 2006 at 17:12

Cant find the area fro hand held questions so posted here.

I am after a handhelp device that can do the following

GPS - use with TOM TOM
Wireless - needed for home and work
Takes Cards for ease of transfering data.
Good screen, colours and size.
Ease of use and able to connect to a PC.

Which one would you guys go for with a budget of £400.

TYIA

ColiN

FunkyCowie · 12 Oct 2006 at 17:36

O2 Xda exec or similar ... and a bluetooth gps

Or Dell Axim X51v (£280)... and cf or bluetooth gps (£30-50)

FunkyCowie · 13 Oct 2006 at 17:35

Or the new sharp zarus (kinda like the XDA exec) if you can wait a bit cos it uses linux

Energize · 13 Oct 2006 at 17:40

Asus MyPal A636 £305 has gps built in and very fast lock on speed so no need for an external gps reciever. Or a hp hx4770 because it has a 4" screen which is definatley a good thing when using gps.

Tomsk · 13 Oct 2006 at 18:30

Mio P550
GPS, wifi(b/g) and bluetooth built in
~£240

AWBbox · 13 Oct 2006 at 20:20

FunkyCowie said:
O2 Xda exec or similar ... and a bluetooth gps

Or Dell Axim X51v (£280)... and cf or bluetooth gps (£30-50)

I have an Xda IIi, I can thoroughly recommend it! The only thing I could complain about it would be the battery life. I should imagine they have newer models that improve on it but O2's range of Pdas is well worth a look imo.

Energize · 13 Oct 2006 at 20:26

There are lots of bigger batteries for the xda IIi.

FunkyCowie · 14 Oct 2006 at 00:08

If you want a nice vga screen you'll have to put up with the battery drain, if you don`t mind sacrificing and having rather poor image quality then you'll get more life out of your battery.

Energize · 14 Oct 2006 at 00:27

On a 3.5" screen 320x240 is not poor quality, saying that, having a vga screen or not doesn't make the slightest difference to battery life, it's only screen size and backlight that affect power usage, not the number of pixels on the screen.

Supercow · 14 Oct 2006 at 08:16

FunkyCowie said:
Or Dell Axim X51v (£280)... and cf or bluetooth gps (£30-50)

I love my PDA

FunkyCowie · 14 Oct 2006 at 10:03

Energize said:
On a 3.5" screen 320x240 is not poor quality, saying that, having a vga screen or not doesn't make the slightest difference to battery life, it's only screen size and backlight that affect power usage, not the number of pixels on the screen.

I have used a VGA and a QVGA screen, both for long periods and the VGA screen is better quality when watching video, looking at images, using the internet etc. But hey thats just my personal experience

Energize · 14 Oct 2006 at 15:24

Yes it's better assuming the source material is vga but qvga isn't poor, it's not something I would use as the main deciding factor.

Tomsk · 14 Oct 2006 at 15:30

QVGA does sometimes have an advantage over VGA during GPS use.

When I used TomTom (v5) on my QTek 9000 (VGA) the text on the display is too small to be easily read with a quick glance. On the Mio P350 (cut down version of P550) with it's QVGA display the text is as good as a TTGo300.

FunkyCowie · 14 Oct 2006 at 20:36

but you can adjust the size of the text in settings

Energize · 14 Oct 2006 at 20:40

Tomsk said:
QVGA does sometimes have an advantage over VGA during GPS use.

When I used TomTom (v5) on my QTek 9000 (VGA) the text on the display is too small to be easily read with a quick glance. On the Mio P350 (cut down version of P550) with it's QVGA display the text is as good as a TTGo300.

Not only that but some pdas struggle rendering vga maps.

Tomsk · 14 Oct 2006 at 20:59

FunkyCowie said:
but you can adjust the size of the text in settings

You can't in TomTom v5.