So I broke down last night and purchased the latest map update for my Garmin StreetPilot c340. After downloading the 2gb file and running into a few setup issues, I finally got it installed on the GPS. This morning, I fired the unit up on my way to work, as I am wont to do …
Today at CES, Palm unveiled its new smartphone: the Pre, running webOS (formerly code-named Nova). The Pre has a 320×480 high-resolution touchscreen display, built-in 3G/GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth, a 3 mega-pixel camera, 8gb of user storage (the most on any Palm handheld ever), an accelerometer (for screen rotation), and the Treo’s familiar keyboard (it slides down from under …
I’m a long-time Palm user: I’ve owned four different Palm OS devices over the past 12 years from the original Pilot 1000 to my Treo 680. Palm is finally starting to do some advertising, and the latest round of Santa’s Gone Centro videos are pretty funny. I’m looking forward to CES next week as Palm …
And so it ends … We got up early and hit the road, driving through the morning fog in the northern Georgia hills. Driving through Georgia and Florida takes forever, but we finally made it home shortly before 6pm. Vacation is over! Final wrap-up: According to my Garmin StreetPilot c340, we covered about 3,000 miles, …
Another one of my new Christmas toys is the Garmin StreetPilot c340 GPS. Times have really changed since the days (i.e., 1999) when I would connect my Delorme Tripmate to the serial port on my laptop and drive around using Street Atlas. The c340 is the shape of a small tube television set and has …
Now this is cool. The TripMate from Delorme is an inexpensive GPS (global positioning system) device that uses the government’s network of GPS satellites to pinpoint your position on the globe. Paired with Delorme’s Street Atlas software in your laptop, you can plan a trip, attach the Tripmate to the serial port of your laptop, …