Magellan GPS Companion for Palm V/Vx

Features

• 12-channel GPS
• Up to 10 hours of battery life, doesn't drain Palm
• Quadrifilar antenna for better reception
• Bundled with street-mapping and outdoor recreation software
• Compatible with Palm V/Vx

List Price?: $149.99
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Amazon.com Review
There are two solid reasons to buy a GPS: navigating unfamiliar areas by knowing one's exact position on the planet, and the sheer coolness factor of having such a device. The Magellan GPS Companion meets both the geek chic and practical utility tests by working with an existing Palm handheld. The price is low enough that a frequent traveler shouldn't think twice about substituting this device for bulky, conspicuous maps--although you might miss the charm of meeting strangers in unfamiliar empty neighborhoods.

The GPS Companion snaps right into the Palm V or Vx's serial connector, and uses its own batteries to avoid running down the Palm handheld's power. The unit ships with two software packages, one for wayfinding and navigation and another for attaching position to street maps. The unit uses the standard GPS interface, so any Palm application that can use a GPS has access to this device's telemetry.

You'll find yourself turning to the GPS Companion time and again. The accompanying CD-ROM includes detailed maps of the entire United States and territories and protectorates like Samoa. Maps range from a few kilobytes to several hundred kilobytes depending on the scale of detail (cities get more detail), so even if you have several megabytes free on your Palm, you'll have to pick and choose which maps to download.

The CD-ROM has organized each map into a set of folders by state or territory, and then by county. You can also use search features in the Mac or Windows operating system to find city names, but the CD-ROM uses truncated MS-DOS style naming, rendering Poughkeepsie residents potentially out of luck unless they search on "poughkee."

Downloading maps is as easy as adding the data file to the installer list in the Palm OS desktop application. The Map Companion application lets you choose to view maps even if you're not in the geographic area of the map. You can also use it to delete any installed map.

The most useful combination of options in Map Companion is turning on GPS Scrolling and GPS Position from the Navigate menu. The menu doesn't change based on whether the features are on or off--we had to rely on tiny text in the lower right that reads "GPS POS + SCAL" to show when both were enabled.

It could sometimes be hard to get a fix on our position when we were near buildings or inside. In our testing, we had to be in a clear area for the fix to take; after that, the unit performed well in a car over city streets. The up/down scroll button on the Palm can be used to dynamically scale up or down. The maps automatically add detail with street names and landmarks as you zoom in closer.

We consistently found about a four-second lag while traveling at 30 mph. And you don't want to use this device when behind the wheel. The

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