Did you know that you can have GPS for your Palm Treo?
I didn’t know it until about a year after getting my Treo and I felt like a total idiot. I have always wanted a GPS and had no idea that a phone could even begin to fill the need that I didn’t know was there, haha.
I figured it out when I was in Austin visiting a buddy of mine down in that unbearably hot city, we invited this roadie guy from a pretty famous band who also happens to be one of my childhood friends. Anyway, while we are there we notice he has this little thingy attached to his keychain that kept blinking, and me being the gadget freak I am I just had to know. He explained that it was his GPS, and of course I am like, “HUH?”…haha
Anyway, what it boils down to is this, when you have a phone such as the Palm Treo 700p, which is what I have, you can get this little box that connects to your phone via the bluetooth connection, and what this box does is connect to the GPS satellites. To make it all work together you have to have the little SD card that Tomtom supplies, and when it all syncs up and starts working you see this:
Now, this is where it all gets good…I was surely expecting some sort of monthly fee to use this marvelous device and connect to all these satellites that orbit the earth providing me with directions, but NO! The basic service is totally free, 100% no money needed!
So, let’s break this down. You will end up paying about $100 all together for the whole setup, meaning the SD card and the GPS bluetooth thingy, and that is ALL you will ever pay, EVER….haha. Well, not really, if you want to take advantage of the “traffic” feature I think you will end up paying like $5 a month or something silly, but I never used that and never saw a need for it really, most of my driving is here in Atlanta and I know all the back roads very well. Plus, we tomtom being such great software you can tell it to reroute instantly when you hit a traffic jam.
Anyway, enough rambling on and on and on, here is what the total set up will look like, I personally don’t have the little arm thing that holds the Treo, I am fine with it on my lap for the most part:
There are a few places you can get the whole shebang together, but I have found ebay to be the best out of them all. Like I said, I got it all for $100 total cost with shipping, but here are a few places I have found it
Tomtom Palm Treo combo on Ebay
But if you are someone that has to have everything brand new, then here is:
Tomtom Navigator 6 for Palm On Amazon.com | Palm GPS Navigator On Amazon.com