I want to have GPS Navigation, running Tom Tom Navigator
My question is which is the best configuration to buy?

Dell Axim X5 400Mhz
256 Mb Secure Digital Memory
Or
Dell Axim X5 300Mhz
128 Mb Compact Flash
Saving £87.00

Will I find that Tom Tom will run slow and take ages to calculate a journey because of clock speed or the memory to slow in the case of SD or CF Memory and will the size of the memory restrict its usage?

I only want to use it for Sat Nav and probably not use it out of this country.

Any views or answers please.

I would go for the 400MHz. Both Axims use the XScale PXA250 which tends to be slower overall than the StrongARM SA1110 206MHz that it replaced.

The PXA255 improves the performance situation, but it isn't offered in an Axim just yet so go for as much MHz as you can afford.

Class_A:
I know that speed is everything with computers but, does Tom Tom Navigator need it.
And is the speed more dependent on memory type, or clock speed, and would this show in the applications usage.

I wouldn't worry about MM or SD question, probably no difference in use.

What I would say, having used Tomtom, is get whatever processor you want because unless you are EXTREMELY impatient, you'll have gone about 1/2 mile before it calculates it's route & even then, it'll re-route you if you've gone in the wrong direction ;)

Satellite fix can take longer sometimes...

I run tom tom navigator 2 on my Ipaq with the 206Mhz Processor and a 128Mb SD card. The only time it is slow is when you calculate a major distance ( eg. 300+ Miles ) using the shortest route option. When I say slow it maybe takes 2 minutes but this is a feature you rarely use and when calculating Long distances via the quickest route ( normal setting ) it takes less than a minute and for journeys of say a couple of hundred miles it would only take about 15-20 seconds. Recalculation when you take a wrong turn takes but a few seconds.

Puff The Magic Wagon!:
Swaussie:
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer my question, you have saved me £87.00 plus the VAT.

I love Scoobynet!

NP m8


I'll send you a bill ;)

So how much would it cost to buy the full kit from scratch? I know the Axim is like £200 notes depending which one you go for but then how much is the rest of the stuff you need. Like the idea of sat nav for the car and maybe attaching to the bike somehow :D

TTN2 - £116

Satellite receiver - £80 (might come with power cord for Axim, if not need to add £15 but you need to power both the receiver & the Axim)

128mb MM card - £30 (?)

Add delivery to all that probably.

If you want a bracket (car specific) add another £35


& there you go :D


Not a cheap option by any means. Prehaps the cheapest way is to find an XDA 32 or 64 with a new contract. 32s should almost be FOC & 64s will come down 'cos of XDAII being out next month. Then its just the SatNav bits...

Cheers Puff :)

Going to have to wait then as thats what I thought, a little expensive for me at the moment with everything else I got to pay out for.

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From Dell
Belkin USB Charger £10.58
Axim X5 300Mhz + 128 CF Memory
£233.83

cable that links the DELL AXIM X5 to the Road Angel. RA-X5-T at £24.99 inc VAT + £3.75

£233.83 + 28.74 = £262.57 Total Price inc Vat and delivery

Plus a Holder about £20.00 I would expect
Any Ideas on how to fix it in a New age Impreza?

Anyone?

Pictures would be nice

Yeah so with the Dell and then the gps receiver and software then its about 400-500 notes :eek:

I'll carrry on using my road map for a while :D

**************:I know its more than a paper map but not a bad price, and just 1p less than your lowest guess price

http://www.holux-uk.com/Products/PDA210/PDA-210.htm

Dell Axim x5 Mainstream
GM-210 SiRF II GPS
Cigarette adapter
Tomtom Navigator 2
UK maps included

Only £399.99 inc VAT

Nice one :cool: I'll bookmark that address to keep an eye on the price, I'd get it now if my solicitor hadn't just sent me the bill for my divorce - OUCH! :o

By the way I know this is a stupid question but what is a Road Angel? Speed trap device?

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It’s a GPS speed camera device with a laser detector, I was going to bleed of its gps data down a cable to a PDA.

Price and cost is relative to you financial circumstance, sorry to hear of you turn of fortune, things can only get better as long as you don’t get lost on the way ;)

Anybody know how to fit an Axim PDA into a New age

got any pictures?

LOL I better not get lost, its taken me two and a half years to get this far and I'm nearly home and dry! Perhaps I should have got GPS at the beginning and I'd got there months ago :D

**************: This could be a good product

G.P.S. - Marriage Guidance

Guaranteed, one wrong turn and you are out!

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Anybody know how to fit an Axim PDA into a New age

got any pictures?

The PocketGPS site has some good pointers on homebrew mounts.

I have TTN 2 with a HP jornada 568 128mb card I would have to say it only takes about 30 seconds if that to calulate and recalculate it's rute and it's slowed down because it has GPS assist running in the back ground for the Speed camera datebase

If you can go for the full TTN 2 kit as it has the better GPS heads on the market , I know it costs a bit more but hey I wish I paid out a bit more instead of be a tight git;) as the GPS head that i got with my kit is not as good as some of the others


Huxley

class_A: Thanks, but i have seen that
Realy wanted to buy one that someone has fitted to a New age

Watch out for this one, I've seen this and it's very slow:

http://www.tomtom.com/support/ce/support/navigator2.php

The application has become extremely slow
We have received feedback that TomTom Navigator becomes extremely slow on certain Ipaq devices when reading map data from the SD (Secure Digital) memory card. This problem occurs on Ipaq 3950 devices running ROM version 1.11 and on Ipaq 3970 devices running ROM 2.10. In fact, all software that accesses large amounts of information on the SD card seems to become slow on devices running these ROM versions. The only suggestion we can currently offer is to downgrade back to a lower ROM version.

Kevin Greeley: Nothing like backward compatibility ;)

Huxley: I will keep that in mind, don’t know how well the Road Angel will behave as the GPS head.

Thanks for all the info guys

Ajax

Brodit

They do a vehicle specific piece of kit & should include the bug-eye. I've got one for my classic :D

If its good enough for you....................... :)

Thanks for the pointer