Magellan GPS Companion for the Palm m500
- Sleek and lightweight design
- Combines GPS technology and Rand McNally Streetfinder navigation software
- Provides turn by turn guidance to your destination
- Graphical GPS displays your speed, heading, distance to destination, and more
- Compatible with Palm m500
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.
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Tags: Companion, m500, Magellan, Palm
I bought m505($. . . ), then I bought GPS from palm for $. . . , with $. . . rebate. I think $. . . is not a lot for a GPS. Little hard to figure out at first use, but read manual(RTFM) carefully. Yes, the software from McNally suck. I can get more accurate map from MapQuest without GPS support
Anyway, if you spent over $. . . for this GPS, then I might think twice, but for $. . . . I would say it’s worth what I paid it for. Software gives you two kinds of map. First one is for direction. Basically get addresses and follow direction. Second one is general area map. It covers pretty good amount of area. Not whole nation nor whole california, but a county or two. If you turn on GPS on the map, it will give your current location. Like those navigation system. I bought this instead of those over $. . . auto navigation system. I just bought 256MB SD for $. . . . Gotta try putting the software on RAM and map on SD.
Rating: 4 / 5
I wish someone had mentioned this is a PC-only device before I purchased it. Not only does the mapping software shipped with this require a Windows operating system, but Magellan does not support Macs. I’ve managed to get the thing loaded onto my palm, but now I can’t even get a satellite read: and there’s no way to consult the help file, since it’s provided on the Magellan site for download in a format not recognized by my Macintosh. (It involves a DLL, which is PC-only. ) Not to mention that the software updates are downloaded in a ZIP format that’s not Mac-friendly. Since the Palm m500 works with both PC and Mac, why doesn’t the m500 companion work with both? And why is this a fact you’ve got to take pains to discover?
Rating: 1 / 5
We used to this find the property line on a large wooded lot. It worked well, and got us within a few feet either side of the actual line, making it possible for us to mark and doze the fence line.
Hardware was quick and easy to use. However, as others said the software needs a little studying to understand. But once you understand it you can download coordinates to overlay onto a map on your computer.
All-in-all I’d recommend this item.
Rating: 4 / 5
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.
Rating: 3 / 5
With the right software, (Quo Vadis, Fugawi, GeoNiche) this item works great. Rand McNally software works fine for directions on a PC, but the maps are too large and clunky when downloaded to the palm. Built-in GPS tools are very limited in the software as well. Really like how versitile my Palm515 has become. For 80 bucks (plus other software) you can have a pretty good GPS. Don’t drop it though.
Rating: 4 / 5