Product Description: Add the powerful navigation capability of GPS to your Palm m500 with the Magellan GPS Companion. Sleek, lightweight and affordable, the GPS Companion offers the advantages of GPS technology and a new level of confidence, safety and dependability to your business and recreational travels. Whether your are in the urban canyons of the city or deep in the country, attach the lightweight GPS Companion to your Palm m500 series and you'll always know where you are and where you're going to within a few meters.The GPS Companion comes complete with advanced navigation software. Download and navigate with detailed, street-level mapping of the entire continental United States. Rand McNally's award winning StreetFinder Deluxe travel navigation software includes over one million points of interest to easily guide you to gas stations, hotels, restaurants, ATMs, airports, tourism locales, businesses and more. Easily pinpoint your location on the map and let your GPS Companion guide your travels, turn-by-turn. Edit and create your own maps to plot your journey, then HotSync to your handheld and let the adventure begin. Nav Companion software allows you to mark waypoints and save positions and directions for making return trips quickly, safely and easily.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Palm User
The StreetFinder software tends to have a problem when you have a large SD card attached (512MB - Even without map on it!) When you select the changing map option, the StreetFinder goes into la, la land (I only waited 5 min & soft reset). But if you pop out the SD card it will function normal again.
I'll try a 128MB card with 60x write speed. Probably not going to make much difference. Anyone knows a work around on this?
Rating: - first impressions
I compare my experience with the one of my co-worker with a Pharos PK012 Pocket GPS Navigator Kit for iPAQ.
The Pharos seems to be faster with the position update. The Pharos cannot work with batteries and comes with a cigarette lighter adapter. If you want to use your GPS outdoors or on a motorcycle the Magellan for Palm will have a little advantage. Otherwise the Pharos has an advantage.
I agree with many about the software from Rand McNally. I just don't like it. Even comparing it with the "no brand name" Ostia software, included with the Pharos, the Rand McNally immediately ... Read More
Rating: - Really just a toy
The GPS device is cool, but the Rand McNally Streetfinder software is junk, really worthless. In the Northeast corridor where you would expect the data to be a little more precise, the software often says you are "off course" even when the position icon shows you exactly on course. And the plotted course route is often not the best route, sometimes it is dowright wacky. Should I mention that I am still waiting (six months later) for my mail-in rebate?
Rating: - This thing is great, It even works on my M130
This thing rules! It took me an hour to get all the stuff installed and working, but it iz awesome. I don't know wut the other people were talking about when they say that the Mapping Software is bad, i think it rules! After some minor shaving, i got it so that my m130 works with it, how crazy is that? Espacially with the rebate, this thing rules!
Rating: - Magellan Companion for Palm m500
This is a great product that works very well with the Palm m500. The Rand McNally Street finder is very useful as well. However, I have encoutered problems connecting the unit the my Palm m500. It worked well for about 2 weeks, but now the two products do not snap together well and it is now virtually useless.
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