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Comparison of 6 PDAs and GPS

May 19, 2006 gps navigation, phones, reviews, wrist watch

The track we have chosen consists also of road in the countryside: the first requisite of having a vehicle capable of travelling in those roads is satisfied by the car above. For our tests we have used 6 different PDAs, ready for a very tough competition. Here they are, strictly in alphabetic order:

Fujitsu Siemens C550, the “multimedia PDA” , coupled with the GPS receiver Globalsat BT-338; N520, the entry level of FSC convergent devices; N560, currently the top of the Japanese-German vendor; HP hw6515, the first PDA-phone with AGPS; MIO A201, the budget model of the series; MIO A701, the PDA phone including a SiRFinstantFix system.

These devices are not the only electronic companions of our tests. We also have some newcomers, but we are not going to publish the results for them, due to obvious reasons. An example is the T830 by Fujitsu Siemens, still in a preliminary phase, that is expected to be available on the market by next July/September. The firmware it implements is at a too early stage to ensure an active participation to the tests and to guarantee reliable results. Side by side to this UMTS PDA phone we have included other devices: JasJar, the “king” (review); Globalsat GH-601, the wrist receiver; SD-502, the Secure Digital with a GPS antenna inside; some Nokia smartphones, and a long list of Bluetooth GPS receivers of old and new generation.

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