Last week I bought -- and then returned -- a GPS from Canadian Tire. (Details here.)
For the same money, I bought a Palm TX from FutureShop. It was "on sale" because it was bundled with the keyboard (a CDN$99 value). I also got a 133x 2GB SD memory card for the TX, on sale for CDN$60.
I already have two GPS receivers, and so I'm thinking I should be able to connect either one to the TX, and then add mapping software that runs on the Palm (which seems to be limited to TomTom's expensive set of CDs for Canada and USA).
The one GPS I have is made by Garmin, the other by DeLorme. I've emailed both companies to see if they have serial-Palm TX adapters. Will they bother answering?
The alternative is to take advantage of the TX's Bluetooth capabilities. (My son and I tested it by writing an SMS message on the TX, Bluetoothing it to my son's cell phone, which then text-msg'ed it on to my daughter's cell phone.)
Right now, it seems to me that I have two solutions:
Sol'n 1: Get a serial-to-Bluetooth adapter. But those are expensive! They are priced in the range of US$80 - $160. Plus they need their own source of power, so another set of batteries is needed.
Sol'n 2: Get a Bluetooth GPS receiver, which is roughly the same price, is as little as CDN$128. But this seems a waste, considering I already have two GPS receivers and the serial cables for both.
There is a third solution. Somewhere I have a serial-Palm adapter cable, which I've been hunting down but not yet found. It connects the DeLorme GPS to my Palm III (I think) or maybe my Palm 1000 -- I still have both units n working order.
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