Phones that will run Tomtom (like the M500)?

Vanilla · 17 Jan 2006 at 00:09

A friend has the M500 on Orange.

Is it possible to get this phone given that I have 02 and Vodafone? I'd like to get it but someone said that it was Orange only.

Do O2 / Vodafone have their own equivalents? Is the M500 the best one to get?

I know nothing about these kinds of phones! I'd just like to run TomTom and have my calendar on my phone!

Thanks

Hades · 17 Jan 2006 at 00:17

The Orange M500 is simply a rebadged HTC Magician platform. It's also known as the iMate Jam and QTek S100/S110. O2 sell it as the XDA Mini, Vodafone sell it as the VPA and T-Mobile sell it as the MDA Compact II.

I have the O2 XDA Mini S which is similar to that phone but has a keyboard and WiFi. I love it to bits.

EDIT: TomTom runs fine on it but you may want to wait for the new HTC Atom (O2 XDA Atom) to come out as it's running the new Windows Mobile 2005 and has WiFi).

Vanilla · 17 Jan 2006 at 09:34

Thanks for the info, didn't realise they all sold their own versions of the same phone!

I probably wont wait for the new one as I wont be on contract so it would be very expensive. Will probably just pick up one of the XDA's at auction over the next few months!

Desmo · 17 Jan 2006 at 09:43

You don't need one of those phones, TomTom will run on plenty of others.

See here --> http://www.tomtom.com/products/features.php?ID=208&Language=1

LeoWyatt · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:05

Runs on my N70

Desmo · 17 Jan 2006 at 11:14

Mine too

LeoWyatt · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:09

Also I have john cleese telling me where to go

Desmo · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:15

I've tried the voices but they annoy the hell out of me after a while so I just go back to Tim

Vanilla · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:15

Thanks for the info, does the N70 have a built in GPS? or do you need some kind of plug in?

LeoWyatt · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:16

you'll need a bluetooth gps receiver, get one off the bay

EDIT: I'm using a BT-77

LeoWyatt · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:18

Desmo said:
I've tried the voices but they annoy the hell out of me after a while so I just go back to Tim

Normal voices i'm probably going to stick with that first US lass, or get some super sexy voice to direct me

good for a laugh

Desmo · 17 Jan 2006 at 12:35

As Leo said, you'll want a bluetooth GPS receiver. Can range from £40-100 depending on what you go for. If you can afford one from the upper end of the scale, try and get one with the Sirfstar III chipset.

rG-tom · 17 Jan 2006 at 14:42

i'd try and get a touch screen phone like the m500 for tomtom, makes it far easier (and more importantly safer as it's quicker and requires less attention) to adjust things whilst moving than trying to operate fiddly little buttons whilst it's attatched on the dash with a small screen.

I personally use the m500 with the BT-77 and tomtom 5.21, which does the job very nicely

Tom.

LeoWyatt · 18 Jan 2006 at 13:34

Would it be possible to get and use US maps too?

Tomsk · 18 Jan 2006 at 18:51

LeoWyatt said:
Would it be possible to get and use US maps too?

Yes.
I have QTek 9000 (JasJar/M5000 etc) with UK, Canada/Alaska and Lowell, MA (a city near Boston) loaded on mine.

edit
You can't plot a route between seperate maps ie I can't plot a route from Canada to Lowell. However the whole of the USA & Canada/Alaska can be purchased in one, but I don't know if it would be possible to plot a route crossing the various regions of the USA (west coast, mid-west etc) as they are usually available seperately. It all depends on how TomTom have configured the map files (all USA & Canada/Alaska is 1.4GB!)

LeoWyatt · 18 Jan 2006 at 21:04

cack largest sized card is 1gig

oh well have to leave out alaska

Tomsk · 18 Jan 2006 at 22:16

LeoWyatt said:
cack largest sized card is 1gig oh well have to leave out alaska

You'll still need 1.399GB then

or buy a 4 or 8GB SD card

LeoWyatt · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:18

Ah well i'll get the CA map that is all i'll need at the moment.

I would get an SD card but it takes RS-MMC and they largest size is 1gig.

Tesla · 19 Jan 2006 at 09:46

I have a P910i with a BT-77, runs superbly.

Alhough I need a cig. adaptor for the P910i as TomTom kills the battery!

Desmo · 19 Jan 2006 at 10:22

TomTom on my N70 actually seems to last quite a while. I did an almost 4 hours round-trip the other week and only used quarter of the battery from a full charge.