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To celebrate reaching 2 million hits, Brando is giving away one Sony PEG-N700C and more than 50 other items. The only condition is you have to sign up in Chinese.
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RE: This is not give away. This is cheap labour
Why don't they just create a survey instead?
Palming away.....
GPS is $60
RE: GPS is $60
RE: GPS is $60
RE: GPS with HandEra
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RE: GPS is $60
Just a shame about the courier cost to Australia. Still works out cheaper than a dedicated unit here.
John.
Looks good, but...
RE: Looks good, but...
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RE: Looks good, but...
1) The Palm III version is based on a Rockwell chip-set, and apparently has some functionality missing, some mention was made of clocks.
2) The Palm V version is based on a Magellan chip, so any reviews of that version are not valid.
3) The software has drawbacks, like huge, out-of-date US-only maps, no lat/long or compass read-out, and apparently no manual way-pointing. If you're off the map, the software is useless.
4) The good news is the unit is NMEA ccompliant, which means you can switch to almost any other software you like, at extra cost, of course. One package I looked at was at www.gpspilot.com. You could get a basic lat/long and compass program for US$20, or a full mapping program for $50, which could convert almost any digital map to be usable. Given teh number of free maping sites on the net, this could be a good. They even claim you can scan in a paper map and it will work.
5) Initial lock-on time is long, 5-15 minutes, but decent software that allows you to enter a rough guess at your position brings the time down to 2-3 minutes.
6) Battery drain on the Palm appears to be bad. One reviem of the V version quoted 2 hours life. People were very annoyed that the V didn't charge off the car charger.
However, no-where have I found hard technical data, such as how many channels does it use, are they simultaneous, which protocol it uses (affects the accuracy, 100m vs 26m), etc.
John.
So, conclusion, as a fun toy, adding on the software for a non-USian like, and comparing the price to a dedicated unit, it could well be worth it.
RE: Looks good, but...
GPS - Way cool!
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This is not give away. This is cheap labour
I was told by a Chinese friend that as a condition to enter into the draw, one must have submit Chinese description of at least 10 palm software. It is not difficult to imagine all these 'free work" becomes content of the commmercial site, and yet it is called "Give Away". Isn't it ironic ?
Besides, what is the point of annoucing this "Chinese only" event into an English Palm Portal ? Should we all feel jealous ?