If you're looking for a Palm PDA with a phone, the Treo 650 is a great device (I have one!).
It can do all the same sorts of things as the equivalent Windows devices, but I personally prefer the Palm experience - more user friendly and intuitive.
Regarding GPS, you've got two options there:
1) Get a GPS which has car navigation features, plus the standard bushwalking and mapping features, or
2) Get a more basic GPS and use software on your PDA for the navigation side.
If you've already got a whiz-bang PDA, and don't mind fiddling with this sort of thing, I would tend to look at the PDA navigation software.
If you want your car navigation to 'just work' and be available for other users of your car (who don't have the same PDA), then I would look into a dedicated GPS navigation unit for the car. Johnny Appleseed have got several of the new Garmin units which are pretty cheap and do a good job.
Regards,
Darren Bruning.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Tyndall [mailto:ftyndall@ozemail.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, 24 August 2006 9:38 AM
> To: vicdairy-l@unimelb.edu.au
> Subject: Palm Pilots/pda's
>
> Alistair and all,
> I have used a PDA for about four years. A major point for
> me: I am prepared to carry around only one thing. So it has
> to be a phone as well.
>
> I have had two types, first an O2, currently an Imate. Both
> have been totally reliable, and I can't really fault
> anything. Although the screen size and characters seem to be
> getting smaller and smaller as time goes by!!
> The main use of a PDA is "diary", "to do list", and
> "contacts", (and "phone"). The Imate also runs all windows
> programs, incl excel so will do any farm thing. It's also a
> camera, MP3 player, dictaphone (the latter is more useful
> than you might think at first) , and has bluetooth. It can
> hook onto the Internet, get email, etc, but I rarely use that
> because it costs a lot and is very slow. I wish it was also
> a radio. I use a number of normal dairyfarm spreadsheets
> (rations, grazing, ferts, etc) on it. They simply convert
> from my computer to it. All programs sync automatically with
> my computer when I hook them together. It's is a bit bulky, I
> am thinking of buying the smaller version now available
> (about $1,100). Does anyone want a 18 month old Imate/phone
> for $250 (cost $1,200 new)?
> I have got bits and pieces of useful software for it off the
> net. Like a chinese phrasebook and a program that keeps all
> your pin numbers handy but safely encrypted ( that's another
> thing with age: I get to the ATM, and I've suddenly got
> confused or forgotten my pin number. Well, I reckon I've got
> at least fifty pins or passwords.)
>
> I apparently could attach a GPS to it but never have.
> Alastair, and all, I would be very interested in a discussion
> on GPS. Can you get a handheld GPS, to measure paddocks and
> not get lost when walking around, say, Sydney, or the bush,
> that also works as a car navigator????
>
> Regards
> Frank Tyndall
>
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