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

sparkymarky

This is amazing news.
I just bought this pda and gor it today.
Expansys tried to sell me a new sdio wifi card for £60, but I remembered an old one that also had 256 mb memory built in (made by Sandisk). I just bought one second hand of ebay. I didn't even have to install any drivers. I just plugeed it in and I had instant WiFi access. For £30 off EBay instead of a new one that wouldn't have the 256MB card. And yes you can save to the card and use the card memory at the same time as surfing the web and chatting on msn.

This is truly amazing and nowhere else on the web is it mentioned that the Fujitsu Siemens N500 works with the SanDisk SDWSDB-256 256MB+Wi-Fi SD Card.

This is the only SDIO WiFI card with storage included, and let's face you will need extra storage available to you if u r gonna be surfing the web on this pda by WiFi.

I hope this saves alot of people alot of fuss trying to find a card that allows this excellent pda to become Wi-Fi enabled for only £30.

I have just installed the N520 version of Skype Pocket PC onto the N500 to send text messages via WiFi and it works, but the calls aren't impossible to hear, even when I installed it on the sd wifi card instead of internal memory. I am waiting for X-Ten to release their Voip version of X-lite that will allow voip calls. I got SJPhone to work, but I cannot hear the other peerson as the hardware locks the software when using the speakerphone.

The Navigon CD comes only with a license for the Map of the UK not Europe or North America.



Sparky marky

TheRegular

tandeh wrote:

can you use tom tom software on these systems?? is it pocket pc compatible

You cannot but it comes with its own software. According to my manager its better than TomToms software for that price range. It is not yet PDA compatible I think, I will check for you one monday.

Jefft_2

TheRegular wrote:

You cannot but it comes with its own software. According to my manager its better than TomToms software for that price range. It is not yet PDA compatible I think, I will check for you one monday.

Yes you can use TomTom on this. It is working fine on mine. Your manager an expert is he?

Jeff

b1g1an

Jefft wrote:

Yes you can use TomTom on this. It is working fine on mine. Your manager an expert is he?

Jeff

Jeff, he's talking about that TomTomGo wannabe that he's trying to push.

yebaws

sparkymarky wrote:

This is amazing news.
I just bought this pda and gor it today.
Expansys tried to sell me a new sdio wifi card for £60, but I remembered an old one that also had 256 mb memory built in (made by Sandisk). I just bought one second hand of ebay. I didn't even have to install any drivers. I just plugeed it in and I had instant WiFi access. For £30 off EBay instead of a new one that wouldn't have the 256MB card. And yes you can save to the card and use the card memory at the same time as surfing the web and chatting on msn.

This is truly amazing and nowhere else on the web is it mentioned that the Fujitsu Siemens N500 works with the SanDisk SDWSDB-256 256MB+Wi-Fi SD Card.

This is the only SDIO WiFI card with storage included, and let's face you will need extra storage available to you if u r gonna be surfing the web on this pda by WiFi.

I hope this saves alot of people alot of fuss trying to find a card that allows this excellent pda to become Wi-Fi enabled for only £30.

I have just installed the N520 version of Skype Pocket PC onto the N500 to send text messages via WiFi and it works, but the calls aren't impossible to hear, even when I installed it on the sd wifi card instead of internal memory. I am waiting for X-Ten to release their Voip version of X-lite that will allow voip calls. I got SJPhone to work, but I cannot hear the other peerson as the hardware locks the software when using the speakerphone.

The Navigon CD comes only with a license for the Map of the UK not Europe or North America.



Sparky marky

What exactly do you mean by "wi-fi"I'd like to get one for my n500, but will it connect with my 802.11g wireless modem / router?

Thanks

yebaws

Anybody know where I can buy a TMC receiver for my N500?

yebaws

http://s84957758.oneandoneshop.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=1544b13982510c8/shopdata/Handheld/Handheld/Pocket+LOOX/product_overview.shopscript

:mad: I paid £150 something for mine (not bad still I suppose)

get it quick!

deanos

Delivery is £9.95 on the Siemens site

Have updated first post with that info

sparkymarky

yebaws wrote:

http://s84957758.oneandoneshop.co.uk/sess/utn;jsessionid=1544b13982510c8/shopdata/Handheld/Handheld/Pocket+LOOX/product_overview.shopscript

:mad: I paid £150 something for mine (not bad still I suppose)

get it quick!

Wow now that is a good price and it appears to be exactly the same model as the one I got from Expansys. I tried the satnav out with headphones plugged into the dpa on my mountain bike with the pda in my pocket. Very cool and worked even when I decided to take a short cut, it realised what I was doing, and kept giving me the right directions for the short cut!!!

sparkymarky

yebaws wrote:

What exactly do you mean by "wi-fi"I'd like to get one for my n500, but will it connect with my 802.11g wireless modem / router?

Thanks

WiFi - wireless connection to the internet/LAN. Yes mine works with my belkin 802.11G wireless adsl router. It uses quite a bit of battery but it works fine. I can surf the web anywhere in the house now.