DeLorme Earthmate Street Atlas USA 2008 + Holux M1000 32 Channel MTK Bluetooth GPS Receiver (M-1000)(32CH, WAAS)(Free Vent Mount) | 
 enlarge | Brand: DeLorme
Category: CE
Buy New: $89.95
Rating:  2 reviews
UPC: 859597001385
EAN: 0859597001385
ASIN: B000RNLD56
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Voice Commands and Spoken Directions | | • | Laptops, Pocket PC, Windows Mobile 5.0, and Palm OS Support | | • | Up-to-Date Maps & Travel Information | | • | Route Planning |
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Product Description
DeLorme Earthmate Street Atlas USA 2008 is ideal for Laptops, Desktops, PDAs, iPods, and GPS More powerful than online mapping. Comprehensive tools for traveling using the latest gadgets. Support for Windows Vista, Pocket PCs, Windows Mobile 5.0, iPods, and Palm OS included Up-to-Date Maps & Travel Information Comprehensive street and POI updates for the U.S and Canada, now with Mexico highways. Powerful travel planning tools, MapShare, and many new data types The GPS Leader Innovative GPS features: voice commands, spoken directions, automatic back-on-track re-routing with off-route distance settings, mobile map colors, and much more Authentic DeLorme Maps Not licensed from 3rd party companies, the updated maps and 4 million places of interest are produced by experienced mapmakers here at DeLorme
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| Customer Reviews:
 Fantastic for the price! March 6, 2008
This is an excellent bundle at a great price. I've used the Holux GPS with a Bluetooth USB dongle and kismet on my linux laptop adding the free GoogleEarth download so I was able to "WAR drive" for Wi-Fi hot spots and see the results on a 3D map. I've also set up Streets 2008 on my XP Pro laptop with built-in Bluetooth, which also worked perfectly.
Compared to the several to many hundred dollars one has to pay for a Garmin or Tom Tom - this is tremendous bang for the buck!
 Disappointed July 25, 2007
I purchased this product to use with my Samsung I730 phone. It has the Windows Mobile 5.2 operating system. The Holux M1000 works very well. It was fairly ease to use with my phone and with a lap top via bluetooth. The DeLorme software was disappointing though. Downloading the routes to the phone isn't easy. The map and route information is limited by the size of your phone's internal memory. DeLorme has a work around for manually loading map data on to the Storeage card but not routes. Routes must be small enough to fit on the internal memory. On my I730 that means we are limited to very short trips or must be creative in the way that you handle routes (i.e. just loading the portion of your trip near its destination and turning the tracking on when we get close) The software also has a habit of crashing the phone requiring a reboot. IMHO it is not quite ready for "prime time" on a Windows Mobile device.
We decided to use the DeLorme package with a laptop to avoid the hassle. Seems to work fine with the laptop. However, since I purchased this package to use with my I730, I have to say that I am disappointed. DeLorme tech support has told me that there are no plans to update the Pocket PC software to enable transferring routes in such a way that they can be saved to the Storeage card. If they do, I will probably be satisfied.
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