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MAGELLAN 980621-01 GPS Companion for Palm M500 PDA Connects to m500 / 3 Meter Accuracy / 12 Channel / Works up to 10 hours on 2 AA alkaline batteries |  |
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| Review | Rating | Last Updated | 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? | 3 | Today | first impressions
I compare my experience with the one of my co-worker with a Pharos PK012 Pocket GPS Navigator Kit for iPAQ. The Pharos seems to be faster with the position update. The Pharos cannot work with batteries and comes with a cigarette lighter adapter. If you want to use your GPS outdoors or on a motorcycle the Magellan for Palm will have a little advantage. Otherwise the Pharos has an advantage. I agree with many about the software from Rand McNally. I just don't like it. Even comparing it with the "no brand name" Ostia software, included with the Pharos, the Rand McNally immediately looks slower, harder to use and with way less features. With Ostia you can invert the route, select origin and destination from your contacts, recalculate a route on the fly! With the Rand McNally you have to prepare the route from your PC. The Ostia had a better way to display map and directions at the same time too (different ways to split the screen). Maps looks more readable on the Ostia. I noticed that using the Rand McNally software and relative maps from the internal memory produced better results than software and maps on SD card. I will pretty soon try to have software on internal memory and maps on SD card. My SD card is a Lexar 256Mb: does anybody know if maps will perform better on an original Palm SD card? I also did the mistake of syncing and opening on the Palm a bigger map of metro Philly and got stuck 10 minutes to wait the high level map to load... and I did not sync any POI (point of interest)!!!! | 3 | Today | Really just a toy
The GPS device is cool, but the Rand McNally Streetfinder software is junk, really worthless. In the Northeast corridor where you would expect the data to be a little more precise, the software often says you are "off course" even when the position icon shows you exactly on course. And the plotted course route is often not the best route, sometimes it is dowright wacky. Should I mention that I am still waiting (six months later) for my mail-in rebate? | 2 | Today | This thing is great, It even works on my M130
This thing rules! It took me an hour to get all the stuff installed and working, but it iz awesome. I don't know wut the other people were talking about when they say that the Mapping Software is bad, i think it rules! After some minor shaving, i got it so that my m130 works with it, how crazy is that? Espacially with the rebate, this thing rules! | 4 | Today | Magellan Companion for Palm m500
This is a great product that works very well with the Palm m500. The Rand McNally Street finder is very useful as well. However, I have encoutered problems connecting the unit the my Palm m500. It worked well for about 2 weeks, but now the two products do not snap together well and it is now virtually useless. | 3 | Today | Palm gps companion
This is a nice piece of equipment! I'm using a combination of Street Atlas 2003/X-Maps and Mapopolis. This allows great preplanning of routes, POI and travel maps from my desktop, plus tons of on the fly routing maps on the Palm. For instance I planned a road trip for my motorcycle group, printed individual maps for the participants, used the GPS to guide us on the road, and had Mapopolis stored on SD to improvise changes, side trips, ect. A really powerful tool for organized travel. The Palm/gps is THE way to go. When Pocket PC's get cheaper they have a potential advantage, but for me the Magellan/Palm 505 is just great. I've had mine for three months and consider it essential touring gear. | 4 | Today | It all depends on what you expect.
I bought m505($...), then I bought GPS from palm for $..., with $... rebate. I think $... is not a lot for a GPS. Little hard to figure out at first use, but read manual(RTFM) carefully. Yes, the software from McNally suck. I can get more accurate map from MapQuest without GPS support ;) Anyway, if you spent over $... for this GPS, then I might think twice, but for $.... I would say it's worth what I paid it for. Software gives you two kinds of map. First one is for direction. Basically get addresses and follow direction. Second one is general area map. It covers pretty good amount of area. Not whole nation nor whole california, but a county or two. If you turn on GPS on the map, it will give your current location. Like those navigation system. I bought this instead of those over $... auto navigation system. I just bought 256MB SD for $.... Gotta try putting the software on RAM and map on SD. | 4 | Today | Magellan GPS Companion GPS Software
The GPS unit is very slick. I have tried two software packages with it: the Rand McNally Streetfinder software that comes with the unit, and the Mapopolis software. Unlike another reviewer, I had no problem with the Streetfinder software scrolling slowly. However, there is a known bug that won't let you use the software with an SD card--the program hangs trying to find maps. I talked with their support about this, but the fix they gave me did not solve the problem. However, once you get it running with the GPS, the maps are great! They are much more readable to someone with aging eyes than the Mapopolis maps, and they scroll just as fast (on a Palm M515). They also have a lot of point of interest data (Hotels, parking lots, etc.)--more than Mapopolis has. Plus, it's free! Mapopolis isn't free anymore, and you have to buy Map Packs or individual maps and download them. | 4 | Today | 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. | 4 | Today | Product does not work with Macs
I wish someone had mentioned this is a PC-only device before I purchased it. Not only does the mapping software shipped with this require a Windows operating system, but Magellan does not support Macs. I've managed to get the thing loaded onto my palm, but now I can't even get a satellite read: and there's no way to consult the help file, since it's provided on the Magellan site for download in a format not recognized by my Macintosh. (It involves a DLL, which is PC-only.) Not to mention that the software updates are downloaded in a ZIP format that's not Mac-friendly. Since the Palm m500 works with both PC and Mac, why doesn't the m500 companion work with both? And why is this a fact you've got to take pains to discover? | 1 | Today |
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