Cheap Sat Nav / PDA NEW PRICE ! (26/8/06)

andrew502

The PDA has gone from Pixmania's website and on Expansis's website its up to £185. Can't find anywhere else its cheap on google either. Just my luck its gone the day I go to buy it! Should have got it last night.

timbellina

Has anyone received one of these this time? And if so, how "French" is it?

Merci bien, amigos y amigas

yebaws

deanos wrote:

Very easy, just make sure you backup your data as you will loose it all, and make sure its powered by the mains and follow the instructions given.

I think it also fixes the battery issue as ive not charged mine for 2 weeks and its still on 31% battery when i just checked it now, before it only lasted about 3 days in standby.

It also updates windows as a battery icon is now on the windows screen before you had to go through aload of menus to see it.


If you look at the 2 firmwares yebaws has listed 1 if for Jan and 1 is for May i used the newest version

http://download.fujitsu-siemens.com/Download/ShowDescription.asp?SoftwareGUID=9B3F5929-0104-4EAB-8C6B-A0115E5A018E&ClassID=F4F1B28F-5725-44CF-AEF4-02327978FF7B

I started the upgrade but then it seemed to suggest that I would loose all my apps (not just data, which can be backed up). Is this the case? I have tom tom installed and spent ages upgrading / customising / tinkering with it so I really don't want to have to go through re-installing it. I actually installed TT on my memory card, but it still seems to place some files on the PDA HD so I'm worried that I'd still have to re-install. Any ideas?

Battery icon on the desktop would be a big improvement. I couldn't believe there wasn't one there originally. No way to get one without the upgrade I suppose?

borgs

yebaws wrote:

I started the upgrade but then it seemed to suggest that I would loose all my apps (not just data, which can be backed up). Is this the case? I have tom tom installed and spent ages upgrading / customising / tinkering with it so I really don't want to have to go through re-installing it. I actually installed TT on my memory card, but it still seems to place some files on the PDA HD so I'm worried that I'd still have to re-install. Any ideas?

Battery icon on the desktop would be a big improvement. I couldn't believe there wasn't one there originally. No way to get one without the upgrade I suppose?

You may be able to get a third party one. I have a third party free app for my Qtek S110 but that runs Windows 2003SE. It would probably work fine on a WM5 device except it would look a bit odd as the WM5 look is different to 2003SE. There may be other free third party apps out there by now.

The one I have is called kbattery but, as I say, it may or may not work very well on WM5.

deanos

When i installed TomTom again all my settings were there i guess it saved on the card.

The hassle of tinkering with TT agian will be outweighed by having a much more stable PDA with alot better battery life

yebaws

borgs wrote:

You may be able to get a third party one. I have a third party free app for my Qtek S110 but that runs Windows 2003SE. It would probably work fine on a WM5 device except it would look a bit odd as the WM5 look is different to 2003SE. There may be other free third party apps out there by now.

The one I have is called kbattery but, as I say, it may or may not work very well on WM5.

Thanks, I'll have a search for one. Do you know of any good sites with WM5 PDA freeware?

borgs

yebaws wrote:

Thanks, I'll have a search for one. Do you know of any good sites with WM5 PDA freeware?

If you do a google search with: freeware pocketpc in the search field that brings up the ones I usually use.

But, WM5 is quite recent and you will find that the vast majority of pocketPC apps have been written for 2003 and 2003SE.

deanos

Anybods having trouble with TT5 and the new firmware i keep loosing satelite signal

deanos

If anybods is having probs with the sat signal since the update ive found a fix.

Martini

The Fujitsu Loox N500 PDA Pocket PC Sat Nav with Navigon 5 is available for £179 here:

http://stores.channeladvisor.com/ipodstore/Items/Item.aspx?sck=5665098&itemid=3915981