Handspring Visor

[willyd]

Today is my first day interneting about GPS stuff and am finding a great deal of Greek (so to speak). I don't know what SD, or 3x or Bluetooth or most of the other stuff I've read about here mean. I'm wondering if perhaps it might be simpler to offer my info and see what comes of it.

I live in Los Angeles, California, have a non-color (read 'older'), Handspring Visor with some sort of socket or connection in the back, and wonder if there's any value in trying to add a GPS device and some sort of mapping software to this thing. I use a USB based cradle to sync with Outlook 2000.
I've started driving the LA area for work, and although the company has issued me an IBM Thinkpad with MS Streest and Trips (also a Sanyo 4900 Sprint phone), I'd rather have a handheld GPS thingy that I can carry around. If it will work with the PDA AND the laptop so much the better, but the laptop isn't critical.

My thinking is if the PDA is too old, or not financially sound to add anything to, I'd probably go with a handheld GPS with linking cables and stuff.

My apologies for rattling on. Any opinions are welcome. Thanks,

[Dave]

SD=Secure Digital, it's a type of storage card, MMC is the first incarnation (same size) but doesn't offer DRM (Digital Rights Management) support (although DRM really isn't used). CF=Compact Flash, another storage medium (larger than SD/MMC).

3x is usually the speed of a card, or a speed of a CD drive.

Bluetooth is a wireless data connection, so you don't need wired solutions/systems, you can have a wireless system between say PDA and GPS.

Handspring, hmmm, to be honest it depends what sort of system you're looking to achieve, but I think the Handspring will hinder you more than any other PDA. I would say a new Tungsten T2 or T3 (as you're used to the Palm OS) might be a much better way to go, it will allow support for full colour street maps and street navigation.

The other alternative is a handheld GPS like a Garmin Geko, eTrex or maybe a Magellan Meridian or SporTrak. If you want to use it for street navigation then a PDA based system will be the cheaper solution and give you a much better setup, but if you just want to go out for walks and find your way back to the car or to a place you've found in say a nature reserve or park/forest, track then a handheld GPS would be better.

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