Ready to chunk my old PalmIIIxe !
Cables, com ports, docking ports, hot synching, what a pain, I had forgot how touchy my old palm actually was.
Is it much easier to use a wifi pocket pc and download pocket queries directly to it ? Can they be read directly ? Or do they have to be converted to cachemate readable ?
Re: Ready to chunk my old PalmIIIxe !
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Originally Posted by mountainborn
Is it much easier to use a wifi pocket pc and download pocket queries directly to it ? Can they be read directly ? Or do they have to be converted to cachemate readable ?
This is like the old Garmin/Magellan or Ford/Chevy arguments. Both will do the job, but...
I think the Palm out of the box is easier to learn than a PPC, but the PPC is more powerful once you get to know how to use it.
I've got an older Toshiba PPC (no wifi or bluetooth) that works great for caching. So for your first question, yes, you can D/L your PQ's using wifi to receive your email. Then the GPX can be read directly by GPXsonar or Cachemate. When syncing from the desktop, the GPX files can be loaded directly or just copied to the SD card.
The direction now seems to be a PPC with wifi and BT. This allows you to buy a Garmin Bluetooth X10 GPS and load Garmin maps (same as a NUVI) and use the GPS for caching and navigating w/o any wires or cables. Then Cachemate interfaces directly with the maps and GPS so you can toggle between the maps, cache page descriptions, and a compass for navigating to the cache. The newer smartphones that run Windows Mobile 6 will work the same as the PPC, and the phones with the GPS built-in won't need the X10 BT GPS.
RGS