Well, I haven't used a GPS in quite a while even thought I have like 5 of them now I think. I gave up on trying to do it with my Treo 600 because the lack of multitasking makes it a real drag. I like to have the GPS and navigation going while I'm doing other stuff.

From a software perspective, I've used Pharos Ostia, Mapopolis, and TomTom. Peronally, I like Mapopolis the best. Its routing is very fast, and I believe the map data is better than what Pharos uses. There are two major suppliers of map data, and I've found the one used by Mapopolis and TomTom to be better for my purposes than the one used by Pharos. For what its worth, I think that Mapquest uses what Pharos uses. Pharos and Mapopolis are actually very simliar in there interface. Pharos has a better route generation tool. Mapopolis has better points of interest. Mapopolis has a zillion map options which are very confusing. TomTom is very sophisticated, but I don't really care for the interface. To me, it's too confusing to try and figure out. I want to be able to jump in the car, start the GPS, identify where I'm going, and then have it direct me.

I bought the Pharos Bluetooth GPS package because it was only $199 when you bought a Bluetooth PDA at CompUSA this week. It's regular $349.

I now need to make up a proper audio cable to let me connect the h6135 to my car stereo. What I used to do with the XDA was pretty cool. I played MP3s while the navigation was guiding me. If a phone call came in, it worked through the car stereo. I find the speaker volume on th h6135 too low to use in a car very well. I can barely hear most things. Piping into the car stereo should do the trick.

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