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Old 08-26-05, 09:14 AM   #1 (permalink)
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What d'ya reckon my mate should buy?
Hiya,
A friend of mine asked me for some advice about what device he should buy, he wants something that'll play tunes, provide sat nav for when he's on his mountainbike (he does a lot of riding off into the wilderness!) and he's decided he wants one with a phone built in - have a read of our recent correspondence as he puts it best himself:
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See if you can better this:

http://h20195.www2.hp.com/search/pdf...ad821e27e3.pdf

its got GPS, SMS, MMS, will take any mobile sim, and has expandable memory as well as wireless networking, will accept VPN (not that I can figure it out) and is generally pretty funky

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What no WIFI?
Also processor is a bit slow, mine's 433mhz and is only just fast enough. 128MB also a bit stingy. Built in GPS is nice though - but only costs about £40 to add to a normal PDA. Not sure if i'd get on with the button keyboard or not, I admit typing an email on my PDA is an pain. Have a look at eBay item 5799538163 - its a finished auction for the same one as mine, which ended at £132 - about a third of it's UK retail.

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Ok, my criteria is something like ; cycling along, lookin gat the map listening to music. When the phone rings I want it to automatically cut out, and let me have the call, then the auto cut-back-in. this cannot be achieved if the phone is separate to the pda thing. I care not for the keyboard, but I think that one does have wifi? (wan – as in wireless area network)


I don't know what to suggest he gets - I thought this might be a good place to look for suggestions. So, whadday'all reckon?
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Old 08-26-05, 10:40 AM   #2 (permalink)
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I think that the HP is a good choice. Especially if you want integrated GPS. If you are willing to go with a Bluetooth GPS device to pair with a phone then you may want to give the Imate Jam a look.
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Old 08-26-05, 12:24 PM   #3 (permalink)
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I've got the MDA compact which is the Imate Jam with different branding. It will do wifi but you need to add an SD wifi card (Ebuyer has a very cheap one at the moment £16!)
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i would still say that the HP is the best deal ..... even though the processor is slow u can also check out the ETEN G500 here
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