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Eddie S

2006-10-24, 3:33 pm

Hi all!

I am looking for recommendations on GPS/Navigation software for a pocket pc.
Specfically, I have a PPC-6700 that I use with my Sprint cell service.
Before I had this smart phone, I had a Garmin iQue M5 which I absolutely
LOVED the GPS software on... it used MapSource.

MUST-HAVES for me on this software are:
-voice-command turns
-automatic routing
-prefer to have multiple-waypoint routing
-prefer to have it sync with my outlook contacts and calendar so that I can
route directly to them


thanks for your help!
-Eddie



Joel Kolstad

2006-10-26, 10:33 am

"Eddie S" <ejspi@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:BBt%g.17251$vJ2.4267@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...
> I am looking for recommendations on GPS/Navigation software for a pocket pc.
> Specfically, I have a PPC-6700 that I use with my Sprint cell service.
> Before I had this smart phone, I had a Garmin iQue M5 which I absolutely
> LOVED the GPS software on... it used MapSource.
>
> MUST-HAVES for me on this software are:
> -voice-command turns
> -automatic routing
> -prefer to have multiple-waypoint routing
> -prefer to have it sync with my outlook contacts and calendar so that I can
> route directly to them


I have Mapopolis since -- when I was looking for something similar back in
January -- it was one of the few programs that had been ported to work on
Windows Mobile 5 (that your PPC-6700 is running); since then I believe several
of their competitors have as well.

Mapopolis will do the first three items; I don't believe it does the last.

---Joel Kolstad


Der.Merovingian

2006-11-11, 10:33 pm

On 2006-10-24 15:13:37 -0400, "Eddie S" <ejspi@sbcglobal.net> said:

> Hi all!
>
> I am looking for recommendations on GPS/Navigation software for a pocket pc.
> Specfically, I have a PPC-6700 that I use with my Sprint cell service.
> Before I had this smart phone, I had a Garmin iQue M5 which I absolutely
> LOVED the GPS software on... it used MapSource.
>
> MUST-HAVES for me on this software are:
> -voice-command turns
> -automatic routing
> -prefer to have multiple-waypoint routing
> -prefer to have it sync with my outlook contacts and calendar so that I can
> route directly to them
>
>
> thanks for your help!
> -Eddie


TomTom Navigator is very good. http://www.tomtom.com

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