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Which hand held pc thingy ?
I'm seriously thinking of getting one .Would like GPS & be able to run the following :- V Planner ,Proplanner & would prefer microsoft autoroute for the mapping .
Any ideas which one to go for ? dont want to spend a fortune
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If it's a phone based PC thingy, then a few people have a version of the HTC Tytn (Hermes). It comes under different names depending on which provider has re branded it.

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It will run the software and GPS stuff you are thinking of and depending on which tariff and which provider you use, it may well work out within your chosen budget.
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Good bit of kit, got mine as a contract upgrade for less than fifty pounds (in Orange SPV M3100 guise). I run ALK Copilot as my nav. software that works very well.

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I've just got a HP 5710 Ipaq. GPS + win mobile . All seems to work OK. Cost £220 i think.
Has Tom Tom 6 pre-installed which I've found to be quite good.
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I've got a T-Mobile MDA and it's really rather good.
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Not really interested in the phone part of it ,just the software that I like
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Well I got the phone bit cos I didn't want to be carrying around a phone, tomtom, PDA and GPS. It's all in one handy box.
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The HP iPaq always used to be a good (bit fairly expensive) piece of kit. Not sure what they're like now though?
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Not really interested in the phone part of it ,just the software that I like
Go to eBay and buy a cheap PDA PC phone, one that is superseded and you can get it cheap. That way you can still have the bits you want, but don't need to worry about the phone bit. I have an old HP thingy that I run software on like this, it just didn't put a SIM into it. You can get Windows driven PDA/PC/phones pretty cheap if you don't mind second hand.

I do have a Vodafone V1605 on it's way to me ATM as I got fed up trying to remember to bring my HP PDA Phone with me and my mobile is always attached.
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Consider going down the PalmOS road instead - you get more bang for your buck.
The tungstens are pretty nice units. I use a Sony Clie NX70V and love it but I don't think you can buy them new. Loads on ebay though.
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