Windows Phone Thoughts: Garmin to Pocket PC Owners: Sorry About the Palm Thing - Here's Something For You

Apparently not satisfied to stay in Palm-land, Garmin has expanded their line of PDA solutions to include a Compact Flash GPS unit for the Pocket PC. The unit has a hinge that allows the antenna portion of the card to swivel up and down (just like the Haicom line of receivers), but this card has something no other card does - 64mb of built-in memory.

Brighthand reports that "the module will include the Que software application with points of interest, electronic mapping, automatic route generation, configurable road/area avoidance, and voice-guided directions. Que is also able to navigate to addresses stored in the Pocket PC Contacts application. Mapping details include highways, major streets, lakes, coastal waters, and borders for North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Rim. The module also features 64MB of memory, enabling it to store detailed map data from the US and Canada MapSource CD included with the package. Additional MapSource CDs for US fishing lakes, offshore navigation, and others are available for a separate purchase."

While this is pretty nifty, I'd like to see this in a bluetooth format. Compact Flash seems to be fading away, but bluetooth is becoming more common. My guess is that it won't be long before we see one of the current BT GPS manufacturers come out with their own units with built-in storage.

That covers the hardware side of the package. Although I've used several different PPC GPS mapping applications (Routis, Mapopolis), I've never used a Garmin unit. Has anyone here used both? How do the maps compare?