Dark Side

[jhutchcr]

Well guys and gals, I couldn’t resist.... I am jumping ship from the iQue 3600 to a Dell PPC and Garmin BT. Just ordered the Dell X50v today... will order the GPS 10 in a few days. It will take Dell a few days to produce.

I hope this thing will be screaming fast. I’ve heard early reports that it is faster than the Ique..... Comments:

Hope I made the right choice... Oh well, all the fun is figuring out these new gadgets!!!
:D

[Bokkie]

Originally posted by jhutchcr
Well guys and gals, I couldn’t resist.... I am jumping ship from the iQue 3600 to a Dell PPC and Garmin BT. Just ordered the Dell X50v today... will order the GPS 10 in a few days. It will take Dell a few days to produce.

I hope this thing will be screaming fast. I’ve heard early reports that it is faster than the Ique..... Comments:

Hope I made the right choice... Oh well, all the fun is figuring out these new gadgets!!!
:D

Speed may not be the all-important factor at this point in time. Right now, the rich catalogue of iQue applications gives it the edge over the PPC but there is no doubt the GPS 10/PPC makes a very tempting combo. I'm waiting to get a GPS 10 in the UK but I need some feedback from the early adopters. There are a lot of common aspects between the two devices and given the quality of Garmin's apps you can't really go wrong.

The biggest complaint I have and supported by other users as well, is that only the M5 can associate contacts with map locations and route to them, something taken for granted on the iQue. The Dell is a fast PPC and equates to the HX4700 on performace. The adjustment from Palm to PPC will take some getting used to, but as far as hardware is concerned, you can link up to more on the PPC than the iQue. Right now, I think both devices are 50/50. It'll be good to get another forum member, as there are, let me see, 90, no, 50, no 30, no 10, no, 3 others users we know of.

Methinks the iQue users are getting worried!:D

[reinbeau]

Bokkie, dear, I don't care what GPS you use, just don't be a stranger because you've moved completely over to the Dark Side! ;)

[kefer]

Originally posted by jhutchcr
Well guys and gals, I couldn’t resist.... I am jumping ship from the iQue 3600 to a Dell PPC and Garmin BT. Just ordered the Dell X50v today... will order the GPS 10 in a few days. It will take Dell a few days to produce.

I hope this thing will be screaming fast. I’ve heard early reports that it is faster than the Ique..... Comments:

Hope I made the right choice... Oh well, all the fun is figuring out these new gadgets!!!
:D

You have impeccable taste in pda's and gps's, if I do say so myself. By the way, you are going to need a Seidio 2500 mount, so you may as well go ahead and order that too. I just got mine this afternoon, and am very impressed with the quality.

Also, Dell doesn't manufacture the Axim, (I believe they are made for Dell in Taiwan), so unless they are out of stock, it will probably ship immediately. Mine even came from a warehouse near my home, so instead of "one week build time" and 5 days shipping, I got it in 2 days!

[kefer]

Originally posted by reinbeau
Bokkie, dear, I don't care what GPS you use, just don't be a stranger because you've moved completely over to the Dark Side! ;)

I'm not sure what this "Dark Side" you speak of is...the VGA screen on my new Axim is far "brighter" than my "old" ique :D

[jhutchcr]

I'm excited, another toy to play with!!!

My wife thinks I'm nuts, but to me it much more than just another GPS device; it’s the experience of unraveling the mysteries of something new......Kind of like your first date!!
;)

[JGB]

Originally posted by Bokkie


The biggest complaint I have and supported by other users as well, is that only the M5 can associate contacts with map locations and route to them, something taken for granted on the iQue.


Bokkie - who said the GPS 10 w/Que can't route to a contact?

I just did it.

1. Select a Contact entry - If it has full address info then you are halfway there. ( If you don't have address data in the contact entry then you are out of luck. You get "No Address Found" - you're done.)

2. From Tools Menu select "Locate in Garmin Que"

3. This takes you to the Find Address screen. It will port over your address and fill in appropriate fields. I would imagine you may have to do a little modifying like you do with the IQue to get house number or street into the proper fields. But I think PPC/Que does a better job of interpreting address data into the proper fields than the Palm powered IQue does.

4. Select "Route to It" at the bottom of the screen.

Yadda, yadda, yadda as per IQue

You can also save the address as a Waypoint if you choose.

JB

[0gopogo]

The Axim x50v might well be another nail in the Palm platform's coffin. Having read other PPC fora during recent weeks it would appear that a number of Palm users are defecting to x50v. Well, I'm one of them. All that hardware and functionality for 425$ compared to 399 for a T5... it is hard to pass up. I had been toying with the idea of tasting PPC. When positive reviews of the GPS 10 appeared e.g. by OWG (thanks man) I ordered the x50v.

I hope I won't regret it... Anyway, the x50v arrives tomorrow. When I placed the order Dell gave me an estimated shipping date of March 1st. So it'll be here much faster than anticipated. Not quite as fast as kefer's, but still, no complaints from me :)

[0gopogo]

Be careful Ann. You don't know the power of the Dark Side (http://www.gotwavs.com/cgi-bin/mp3s.cgi?Star_Wars=darkside.mp3). :D

Originally posted by reinbeau
Bokkie, dear, I don't care what GPS you use, just don't be a stranger because you've moved completely over to the Dark Side! ;)

[OWG]

Originally posted by JGB
Bokkie - who said the GPS 10 w/Que can't route to a contact?

I just did it.

1. Select a Contact entry - If it has full address info then you are halfway there. ( If you don't have address data in the contact entry then you are out of luck. You get "No Address Found" - you're done.)

2. From Tools Menu select "Locate in Garmin Que"

3. This takes you to the Find Address screen. It will port over your address and fill in appropriate fields. I would imagine you may have to do a little modifying like you do with the IQue to get house number or street into the proper fields. But I think PPC/Que does a better job of interpreting address data into the proper fields than the Palm powered IQue does.

4. Select "Route to It" at the bottom of the screen.

Yadda, yadda, yadda as per IQue

You can also save the address as a Waypoint if you choose.

JB

One of the problems with this method is that you have to have address data. With the iQue and the M5 you don't. Another is that there are several extra steps required to go through than the iQue or M5 to route to a contact. In those devices you simply highlight the contact and select route to contact.

For me though, those aren't even the most compelling reasons, as I am comfortable with the way it works now. Why I would like to see the location stamp in the contact is as an easy way to back up my waypoints. Either that or a waypoint conduit with Activesync. I keep all my Geocaches as waypoints in the PPC. If I ever Hard reset they are gone. I have found where the waypoint file is stored (unfortunately in RAM, even though I installed on File Store), but it will require some kind of a cluge to always back it up to the PC. Besides a conduit would allow me to maintain them from Mapsource.

[JGB]

Originally posted by OWG
One of the problems with this method is that you have to have address data. With the iQue and the M5 you don't.


Rattus - I don't understand what you mean by "with the IQue you don't"... need to have address data.

I am very curious as to how you go about routing to a "contact" on an IQue? I find it to be a pain in the ass most of the time after selecting the Location button. Even though I have a house number and street entered in the proper field in the IQue Address database it almost always manages to separate the number from the street and then will not search until I enter a "street".

Is there another way?

JB


OK - you must mean AFTER you get the Location waypoint set up it may be a couple clicks easier to get the route.
But you have to concede doing the initial Location setup ain't all that great of a process.

[OWG]

Right, but I usually did that from inside the house when I was bored. I like less steps when I am driving down the highway :p . Again, though, that was less important to me than the waypoint transfer thing.

[Bokkie]

Originally posted by reinbeau
Bokkie, dear, I don't care what GPS you use, just don't be a stranger because you've moved completely over to the Dark Side! ;)

Thanks Ann. I do lurk over there and it's hard not to fire a post just for old times sake!:D

[Bokkie]

Originally posted by JGB
Rattus - I don't understand what you mean by "with the IQue you don't"... need to have address data.

I am very curious as to how you go about routing to a "contact" on an IQue? I find it to be a pain in the ass most of the time after selecting the Location button. Even though I have a house number and street entered in the proper field in the IQue Address database it almost always manages to separate the number from the street and then will not search until I enter a "street".

Is there another way?

JB


OK - you must mean AFTER you get the Location waypoint set up it may be a couple clicks easier to get the route.
But you have to concede doing the initial Location setup ain't all that great of a process.

JGB, continuing on from what Rattus mentioned you can have an iQue location anywhere. It does not need to exist in the database and it can literally be a point in the middle of the ocean. The GPS 10/cfQue let you do that, but the location is not connected to the contact. That's why it creates a waypoint. If you want to move the location you have to delete the waypoint and create another otherwise you'll have two pointing to different locations. With the iQue you can move the location and the contact record gets updated. The GPS 10/cfQue can't do that. On Garmin's website they actually 'boast' about their pending patent that links the location and contact together.