TomTomGO's are pretty incredible. I've owned the 300 & 700 models. A couple month's ago, a man who spoke little English asked for directions very frantically, showing me & my mechanic a piece of paper with two street names. I plugged in the intersection & hit "play demo" and it showed a movie of how to get there, turn by turn. He calmed down & smiled really big- on his way again.... Pretty cool feature. The 700 series also has Bluetooth handsfree & traffic updates & a bunch else, which I use daily. If you're looking for something basic, it might be overkill. Retails $700+ but can be found used around $400-550. They're coming out with new models, so folks're trading up.
www.TomTomGO.com
Good luck.
M

We shopped price on www.nextag.com and purchased through www.buydig.com I believe. With rebate the 700 was about $550.

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I still have it and it works pretty well but I want something that is all-in-one. I'll be bouncing around quite a bit, getting in and out of the car, in some of the less desireable areas so I want to be able to grab it and go.

I actually have two of these PDA BT GPS setups because I bought my then-GF a set and now that we are married, we don't need two of them. eBay here we come!

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Thanks Adam. That's sort of what I've been doing. I have an iPaq 5150, a BT GPS receiver and I've been using Routis. I plug the PDA into a 12V speaker cradle to amplify the nav wench's voice. It works well but it's a little clumsy.

You should program track maps into your 996. Customize it with braking zones and apexes. I know you don't need it but it would be funny.

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LOL.. nah.. i got more data acquisition on that thing then i can handle... plus i got all sorts of people on my radio telling me about traffic and what to do already... don't need another person yelling instructions to me.. LOL

Stand alone TomTom is the way to go. The software is excellent, but it is not cheap either.

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I have an HP 4705 with Tomtom 5, 29 different celeb voices, BT sirf3 receiver and use poiedit to download cameras etc. It is far superior than the bm one. The pda is a pda which I would have anyway and the whole kit is moveable form car to car to bike. I am an IAM's bike observer and have programmed in all the 'normal' routes that we use on public days so do not have to worry too much about looking at route instructions along with everything else. I use a ram mount on the handlebars and an otterbox waterproof box for the pda. put the gps rcv in the tank bag and use a bt earpiece (with remote receiver) to get instructions. The only problem is that the batteries in the pda only last a couple of hours and is not charged whilst in the otterbox. I will sort that out next, perhaps even with a solar panel?

John

Could we do a group buy on the 700 Tom Tom ?

I used my coworkers TomTom when I was in Boston and it was awesome.