[taiyeungjai]

I used a dedicated gps device for quite awhile but I found having too much stuff in the car was a pain, so I went for an all-in-one pda/cellphone/gps combo.

I am currently using an HP iPAQ GPS w/ a Windows Smartphone 2003 setup via bluetooth (SMT5600). I absolutely swear by it. Even though the screen is smaller, the version of Mapopolis I'm using has text-to-speech, so it actually reads off the street names and such. It is such a time saver, and saves me having to look at the screen too frequently. The only downfall of using this setup is that finding locations is slower than a dedicated device (even though my phone is running at 200MHz), but it re-routes very quickly and has proximity alerts and various nav display modes. My garmin quest was limited to 100megs of storage, so I prefer my smartphone that takes memory cards so I can dump multiple states/prov when I travel without deleting and re-copying every time. They also have mapopolis for the palm zire, so I would definitely check it out too.

In addition to that: I can use my bluetooth headset simultaneously and I only need to carry one device (It always watches Divx video @ 30fps stereo, syncs scheduled tv shows automatically to it from Windows XP MCE, views web pages using Opera, can open PDF files and allows me to chat using MSN wirelessly using my portable bluetooth keyboard.) Don't forget I have all sorts of games and NES emulated games on it as well... and finally: it is also a cell phone :D

Sorry.. I'm a gadget freak..