Thursday, March 17, 2005
PocketGPS Review TomTom Navigator 5
Posted by Jonathon Watkins in "SOFTWARE" @ 12:00 AM
"TomTom Navigator has gone through three incarnations over the past three years. TomTom then decided to move everything to a core navigation engine which unfortunately has delayed the PPC release. Since then we've seen the core navigation engine on the Palm OS, GO and SmartPhone's. Recently the Pocket PC has caught up with the release of the HP Navigation Kit and now TomTom are ready to release TomTom Navigator 5."
PocketGPS offer a good overview of the new version of TomTom; Navigator 5. Because of the change to the Core Navigation Engine, the review covers both TomTom Navigator 5 for Pocket PC and TomTom Navigator 5 for Palm OS. The new TomTom Bluetooth GPS Receiver that forms part of the package was not reviewed, because the hardware was not ready yet. All-in-all, Navigator 5 seems to be impressive and many outstanding niggles with the previous version have been addresses with this update. There's no word yet as to whether Navigator 5 will be offered for sale as a stand-alone product, or if you can only get it with the bundled GPS receiver and SD card.
PocketGPS offer a good overview of the new version of TomTom; Navigator 5. Because of the change to the Core Navigation Engine, the review covers both TomTom Navigator 5 for Pocket PC and TomTom Navigator 5 for Palm OS. The new TomTom Bluetooth GPS Receiver that forms part of the package was not reviewed, because the hardware was not ready yet. All-in-all, Navigator 5 seems to be impressive and many outstanding niggles with the previous version have been addresses with this update. There's no word yet as to whether Navigator 5 will be offered for sale as a stand-alone product, or if you can only get it with the bundled GPS receiver and SD card.
