Laptop GPS add-ons

[jmd471]

@S10Blazed Si

Does your laptop have bluetooth? I have a small GPS unit that uses Bluetooth for my phone. Its a GPSlim 236 (I think, going off the top of my head) It was like $75 or so around Christmas time and has proved invaluable on a few long drives I’ve taken with it. I’m terrible with directions and this thing makes it easy. I don’t know how well a laptop would work as a navigation unit unless you mounted it to the dash, but it would be great for telling you where you are and where to go. You also would need the navigation software for the laptop - which is usually the expensive part, but that can be pirated as long as you don’t require the lastest maps. I use iGuidance on my phone and the maps are like a year old.

Which phone do you have? I have a GPSslim as well as well as iguidance, but I didn’t get it to work on my treo700w. I ended up getting a Garmin Streetpilot for around $200 and love it, but to have it on my cellphone could certainly come in handy sometimes.