By: Yenie Darian

If you have PDA without GPS support, now, you never need to be lost again. Whatever you are doing and wherever you are, Tom Tom’s Bluetooth device is designed for people who already own a PDA that supports Bluetooth. This external GPS receiver gives your PDA GPS functionality, which will let you know where you are going and how best to get there exactly, when combined with Tom Tom’s Navigator software and maps.

External GPS Receiver

Wherever you might happen to go, the receiver utilizes Bluetooth technology to eliminate the need for connecting cables, and a high-performance GPS antenna to ensure the best possible reception.

TomTom Bluetooth GPS Receiver as External GPS Receiver has small size and light weight, this handy receiver can fit easily in a purse, pocket, or anywhere else off the beaten track.

The GPS antenna on this unit will stay connected to make sure you find your way whether you are driving down the road or walking down the street, and because of its Bluetooth connectivity.

This external GPS receiver is compatible with most popular brands and models of PDAs, including; O2, Palm Treo, Nokia, Acer, Imate, Dell, HP, Orange, T-Mobile, Qtek and Eten.

Unfortunately, this external GPS receiver is expensive for an older tech receiver. And once you have powered this on it works well enough. When it loses Bluetooth connection to whatever it is talking to it shuts off. When the client comes back this unit has to be manually powered on again.

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By Yenie S. Darian

There are many GPS navigation brands out there which each brand has unique feature and characteristics that are not found in other brands. Today I try to write the strengths and weakness of TomTom GPS Navigation as one of the most popular GPS Navigation devices available.

Strengths

• Easy to use: TomTom GPS Navigation is simple to use interface that most users experience with their feature
  

  TomTom GPS Navigation

  easy-to-see commands and straight-forward.

• Good Guidance: TomTom GPS Navigation allows good guidance with text-to-speech directions that any beginners could operate effortlessness. They can learning quickly and can use it for everyday navigating.
• Traffic information: The feature traffic information receivers on the advance type of TomTom GPS Navigation, allows information of upcoming traffic jams and heavy traffic up ahead.
• Quick signal-locking GPS receivers: TomTom GPS Navigation also features quick signal-locking GPS receivers that are complemented with a fast 400 MHz built-in processor that competent performing with smooth refresh rate and quick command response.
• Driver Tools: Some of more advanced TomTom features driver tools that let you know if you are over the speed limit, and also Lane Guidance tool, an in-depth look to lane switches in busy and complicated interchange.
• “Help Me!” feature: shows local emergency facilities and phone numbers, plus the current location of your unit in cases of emergency.
• A buddy tracker: For notifies the user where their buddies are, several TomTom products even features a buddy tracker that notifies the user where on the map their buddies are.

Weakness

• Design of all TomTom GPS Navigation is very similar style and colors, with the same user interface.
• For some vehicles, the mounting kits that usually come with TomTom GPS Navigation devices is difficult to reach which it makes the users difficult operate the touchscreen.
• The integrated Bluetooth hands-free technology is still too new and many users have complained of difficulty of hearing with low volume mic pick-up by the user calling.

Finally, TomTom GPS Navigation is great for users who need to have an easy, a simple device and straightforward navigation system with plenty of driver tools.

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By Alex Bradbury

With its state of the art innovative and technologically advanced satellite navigation products, Tom Tom is currently the world’s largest navigation systems solution provider. Their products are designed with an emphasis on quality, innovation, ease of use, safety and, of course, real value for your hard-earned money.

Tomtom One XL

Popular among consumers, the TomTom One XL Sat Nav enables customers to use and navigate right out of the box being very versatile and highly functional. It is equipped with the trademark Map Share technology, which enables the Tom Tom Sat Nav products to not only share information, but also update and upgrade accurate map coordinates.

The Tom Tom Map Share technology is currently one of the most innovative and most valuable tools of the Tom Tom Sat Nav products, where users can easily and instantly improve their own maps and share daily updates via ‘TomTom HOME’ a free software application. TomTom also boasts the world’s largest satellite navigation community with over 10 million users where users can exchange map updates and improvements with each other or as a network.

The TomTom One XL Sat Nav not only ensures safe navigation, but also guarantees to add fun by taking out the stress of everyday driving and trip planning. Making it more exciting is the award-winning easy plug-and-go navigation software, with an enhanced 4.3 inch wide high-quality touch screen that makes navigating more easy and manageable than ever before.

The XL Sat Nav comes with a pre-installed database of speed camera locations in the United Kingdom, which is fully integrated in the navigation software.

Great navigation by finding your location quicker than ever before with Tom Tom’s free trademark Quick GPS fix software.

Faster route calculation and re-routing during roadblocks or detours.

An extensive choice of routes, not limited to the shortest and quickest, as well as avoiding toll roads and congestion charge areas.

It also provides for easy access to traffic information via a subscription to “TomTom Traffic”, allowing motorists to navigate the roads with ease and avoid traffic hotspots.

Lastly, it recognizes more than 30 different languages and in 55 different voice variations, depending on how you would like to have it work for you.

So, be on the go with the TomTom One XL Sat Nav, it will make your road experience a much more pleasurable and enjoyable one.

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