Help - I'm new and know nothing

Alanmo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 04, 2005 Posts: 18

I have just found this site and it seems excellent in the quality of advice and friendliness.

My requirements are a device I can transfer between wife's car , mine has dedicated satnav fitted) and motorhome for navigation.

A device I can also use when hill-walking, etc with Memory Map or similar.

I have been considering the MIO 168 with a version TomTom.

A number of questions arise:

Overall, will this do the jobs?
Is there a better solution?
Is the memory enough or will I need extra cards and if so which?
What can I expect from the battery life when on the hills?
Is there a way of weatherproofing the Mio?
What are the pros and cons of this system?
Anything else I should read which is non-technical?
Where should I purchase?

Hope you can help before I spend or get completely confused with info I don't fully follow.

best wishes

Alan

keencyclist · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 28, 2005 Posts: 30

You can easily swap the Mio between vehicles, just put the suction cradle in the car along with car charger and away you go. On a walk Battery life would only be about 1.5 hours maybe a bit longer. You could put the mio in a clear bag to keep it clear from water the GPS would still work. Memory is only limited to how big a card you put in. One advantage of the Mio is that it is also a powerful Pocket Pc, listen to mp3's watch movies, word processing, play games the list is endless. Hope this helps a bit.

Alanmo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 04, 2005 Posts: 18

Thanks keencyclist.

I sent you a message about the one you are selling btw.

Anyone got experienced of using Memory-Map on one, please?

Alan

easyrider · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2005 4:07 pm Post subject: Mio 168

Hi I recently bought the Mio 168 and I think its great It is allso A powerfull pocket PC but all I wanted it for was mainly getting from place to place without useing a paper map. I bought mine off Freeview off the telly. any way have a look at this site it gives you information about the product.

All the best easyrider

http://www.alk.com/support/copilotlive_pocketpc5/faqs.asp

mikealder · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 8:36 am Post subject:

I use the Memory Map with my units (note they are not the MIO you are looking at but the principles remain the same). With the maps loaded onto the PC you can either export the entire map region to the PDA which will consume a huge amount of card space, alternativley you can export "Visable Area" - this is the option I use as it saves time and card space, also get an SD card reader (if you havn't already got one), its much faster transfering a map using that than the "via Active Sync" - way too slow if its a big map portion.
You can also plan a walk on the PC and export that to the PDA as well as the map.
For the SD card get the largest one you can afford min 512, prefferably a 1GB. In use I only switch on the PDA every now and then just to get a position fix otherwise you will flatten the battery on long walk, most of the time these days the paths are well defined, and therefore easy to follow but the GPS is handy at times. Mike

Alanmo · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 04, 2005 Posts: 18

Many thanks for advice - much appreciated.

Alan

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