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(More customer reviews)I have owned many different PDA's and this is by far the best one I have encountered. If you like your phone and PDA to be the same this is not your PDA, but if you like a good solid PDA with blue tooth, wireless, and my favorite feature of all GPS capability then you will love this small compact PDA. I previously owned a Navagation PDA's from a different manufacturer and was not impressed because the button set up was different than that of a standard PDA, so games were impossible to use because of the button configuration; however, this PDA has a standard PDA button set up that is back lit with a speaker on the front unlike my other PDA's. I like using the GPS as a GPS not for navigation, but you could certainly use this for navigation with software purchase or you could buy the model with navigation built in as well. Some higher resolution PDA's like this one may not run games that are only set up for lower resolution PDA's, but this runs most everything and you can usually find a patch or a fix for that issue if it's a game or program you just can't live without. I finally found a great PDA with built in GPS that still works like a standard PDA.
***Update*** This is my fourth PDA and I have had great luck with this unit as a GPS unit both in my car and outside, but it has to be set on 'COM4' both under the GPS setting and in the GPS program you're using. In addition, the infrared beaming under setting/connections/beam must be unchecked so you can't receive incoming beams while using the GPS since they both use COM4. It does take longer to get a connection while moving in a car, but if remaining stopped with the unit in the dash or suctioned to the front windshield mine will find a signal in 1 minute or less assuming you have it set up correctly. Once you aquire a signal it does well and often works in my house but usually never inside a building and I don't have the attenna you can plug into the back either. My previous unit actually took longer to get a signal and it had Navigation built in. While I do agree that a regular GPS or car navigation may be quicker at getting a signal and may have a longer battery life...just know they don't do much else! I use this at work for medical information, the Gym for music, at home as a TV remote, to play games, sync with my calendar, email, contacts or search the internet on my wireless network, and even print wirelessly with it. Occasionally I have even used it for bible study at church. I travel quite a bit and have used it to mark routes and calculate distances, elevations along with speeds(I discovered the new larger tires on my car made my odometer read 3-5mph slower than I was actually travelling-can you say speeding ticket?), but I have not used it for geocaching yet. An unnamed free map program also works great as long as you have a wireless connection. I usually use it to plan my travel route and then save the directions to WORD before I leave as a reference while I'm in transit. This free map program also works great to find stores, hotels or restaurants and it allows you to put them directly into your contacts if you like. My house also looks pretty cool zoomed in on the satellite view using the same program. Finally, if you can't live without all your old palm programs since I owned one of those at one time as well there is a great unnamed program(emulator) that allows you to use most of the OS programs on your PDA if you can't find an equivalent program for the PDA platform. I live in a small town and it seems to work great for me at home or on the road. If you want everything but phone and camera, this is the one to get.
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Pharos Traveler GPS 535v - Handheld - Windows Mobile - 3.5" color TFT ( 480 x 640 )The Pharos Traveler GPS 535v is expressly designed with mobility and productivity in mind. Powered by a fast 624 MHz CPU the 535v PDA packs a large 3.5? easy-to-read transflective VGA screen GPS Wi-Fi Bluetooth and IrDA into a compact package. It also comes with Windows Mobile Office Outlook Media Player and Live Search. You can access your emails surf the Internet work on your Office documents while on the go. With free live traffic gas prices weather movie information map and driving directions at hand you will travel at ease.
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