I was scouting for a Garmin GPS unit. It was freaking expensive in LYP than getting from Starlite, in Seremban. It was about RM700 difference. Darn! I have no time to travel to Seremban, and I settled myself with Mio GPS unit. Pretty OK and neat features, as good as the Garmin unit. I love the voice guidance, it even has voice guidance in Malay! It has an audio player, sync with my phone bluetooth. And yeah, of course even better than the PSP's GPS. By the way, below is the unit...



This post has been edited by c9: Feb 25 2007, 12:37 AM

How can one get to Starlite in Seremban? Any nearby landmarks?

Am interested in purchasing a Garmin GPS 10 since forummers commented that the price there is the cheapest so far.

You have to insist on Kenny to burn you the software, otherwise you leave yourself hanging with only the hardware and no software to decode the data and show it on the mapping app. It should come with nRoute, Garmin Mobile XT and MapSource. Then only can you view the detailed maps from MalSingMaps.

MalSingMaps maps are rich in information, but not as detailed as MapKing IMO. But for driving around in KL, with route presets, nothing beats nRoute + the latest MalSingMap installer maps. Im looking around to see if iMap is as good as MapKing.

Seriously cheaper, I enquire about the same product. That dude at 3rd floor LYP quoted me RM2.5K for it. Where I can get at Starlite for RM1.5K if not mistaken. I forgot the model, it was a low-end unit.

stringfellow: Oh really? They never said that to me when I called and e-mailed them. By the way, mine is using MapKing. The map and route is pretty outdated, some route are not the same in reality. LOL. I haven't updated the map yet by the way. Actually, I have no problems with the routes, I just need a detailed landmarks/buildings name.

Im still waiting for Stimix to reply to this thread, or maybe i should forward the Q to him at MalSingMaps forum:-

In Garmin Q/ MobileXT/ iMap/ MapKing PPC version, the views are selectable to 3D look with the view behind the arrow which represents the GPSr. So far, for the PC version, only MapKing allows this "3D" look, nRoute is 2D only with top-down view, while MapKing allows hybrids. I used Google Earth Plus as well, and it works beautifully, albeit having to cache in the map data to do the GPS tracking offline, otherwise it would eat up 3G/Wifi bandwidth. My question is, are there other PC-based options that gives me this "3D" look? The Nokia's Smart2Go maps on my N93i gives this "3D" look, and it's awesome. I just want the same thing on a bigger Vaio UX screen. Otherwise, im stuck with caching the map data in Google Earth Plus and doing it from there.

Hehe sorry just came bck from CNY holiday....a little blur rite now...Yes received ur PM ...reading on ur last few posting, seems like u hv found ur answers...i.e using nroute for the sony. I'm not an expert when comes to pairing GPSr wth notebook...just knowing the basic only.

On usefulness of GPS s/ware on diff regions, I would sugest the followings:

1) M'sia, SG, Thailand & indonesia - Garmin Que (Or Mapking)
2) China, Far East (Mapking)
3) Australia (Tom-tom)
4) EU (Tom-tom & Garmin- east EU)
5) South America -Garmin
6) US -...eh not so sure probably Tom-tom & Garmin...

More info if u search in Malsingmaps

Bros, just to ask, i checked out Amazon.com and had a look at the Zire 72 (Silver) that is sold there... There is this TomTom Navigator Bluetooth available that can be paired with the Z72s actually, but unfortunately the item can only be shipped within the USA...

How is this GPS device actually? It comes with both the software as well as a BT receiver ya?

Posting this from Frankfurt, went for a walk around ths fabulous Hesse city. Nokia's excellent FREE Smart2Go software works like a charm , with the map preloaded using the Maploader. Also tested using nRoute, but the maps i have are just general World Map, which didnt give much details, and non-routable either. Mapking is of course nonexistant here, although the pairing/GPS triangulations take ssuper-fast on the MapKing.

Am i mistaken to assume that iMap only caters to the Pocket PC crowd, and they dont have a PC version available?

It's 8pm here, gotta get some sleep, gonna go sightseeing + GPS tracking as well. Gonna check if they have a better soluution here in regarding so f GPS software for worldwide travellers. Dont get me wrong, i tip my hats in respect to the awesome work the guys at MalSingMaps with the Garmin maps, but im left in the cold when it comes to routable maps for European cities like Paris, Stockholm and Zurich. Australian cities arent my priority since the cities arent that big, but im desperately looking for good maps of Tokyo and Kansai. The forum offerings at MalSingMaps gave good insights, but are there any other options?

GPS really makes one go exploring!

Since u r in Holland rite now why not download the free map from this link (In Russian) & give it a try (I hv not tried myself :

Holland map

Other european countries are also covered. The link is from item 10 of the malsinmaps' wiki. Similar maps for Germany & most of EU countries are also posted in the link give above (All Garmin format)

iMap is only for M'sia market. it is another papago clone similar to Mapking & kingmap

This post has been edited by stimix: Feb 27 2007, 09:50 AM

Thanks Stimix, should have read the Wiki more thoroughy. The reason why i dont post in the forum there in MalsingMaps is because the pros and vets are vicious towards newbies at the slightest hint of not being thorough with reading the Wiki. Scares the newbies away.....Plus my case is a bit unique , since i dont see lots of other user using thier laptops, or WinXP as their GPS platforum, most either go the Pocket PC way or a standaone GPS unit.

Frankfurt is in the Hesse district of Germany, not Holland, by the way.

Hehe I tot u refer to Amsterdam.... ...anyway the link given also include Germany...so enjoy ur Garmin Que there....

Sometime, the pro over in malsinmaps a little hostile towards newbies bcos the same question keeps repeating for numerous times although been explained in another recent time or the newbie asking a too basic question where all that are answered in the wiki. I think there should a big notice on the cover page asking newbies to go straight to the WIKI instead....

Garmin Que? That's for PPC only isnt it? Im using MapSource with nRoute for my Vaio UX. I swore off PPC a long while back, when i find that PPCs are not a good compromise for standard PCs. That's when i went the ultramobile PC way.

It's 8:11am here, gonna grab some breakfast, and explore Frankfurt. There's a store called Saturn here that sells tons of electronic stuff, and i hope GPS devices are one of them.

Hehe...sorry again...forgotten that u'r using ultramobile notebook & not PPC...yeah Nroute +mapsource...since u oledi know how to operate using nroute...(frankly, I hv not tested this option b4)...more reading Here

This post has been edited by stimix: Feb 27 2007, 03:54 PM

Do share with us on what you can find in Saturn.

Does anyone know whether the Dopod S300 WM5 smartphone is capable of running either Mapking or Garmin Que with a BT GPSr?

Googled and noted that it is running on WM5...so should not be a problem. Not so sure whether this is a touch screen model....it might be hard to control w/out stylus....

stimix, u're bang on target. I forgot the importance of the touchscreen controls/stylus. This phone doesn't have that feature as it's just a smartphone, not a WM5 PPC. So even if it could run Mapking or Garmin Q, it'd be next to useless.

I'm looking for a new phone, and I thought it would be nice to have some kind of basic navigation system in a small form factor.........don't want to carry a big PDA phone in my shirt pocket.

I guess then I should be asking what's the smallest WM5/6 PPC phone in the market?

Actually those GPS geeks are looking for biiger PDA screen rather than smaller one as the sammler the screen, the harder u can see....So if possible for car navigation a 7' screen is the best or a tablet PC.

For reasonable size PDA..go for those wth 240X320 screen size which is a standard nowadays such as Glofiish, Asus, Dopod810 & etc...

This post has been edited by stimix: Mar 8 2007, 08:14 AM

I'm still hunting for a ~8" SVGA LCD Monitor (touchscreen if possible) for in-car sat navigation to hook up to my notebook. Let me know if you come across one.

Thanks, stimix, will be checking out the PDA phones you mentioned, but they all seem a bit bigger than what I'm trying to get. The Dopod S300 would have been ideal but.......

Maybe I'm being impractical.

Kemen / casey , the same guy who's doing the bulk on holux gps on our bulk section is selling a 8.4" touch screen lcd on lelong. Maybe you can ask him.

This post has been edited by easirider: Mar 8 2007, 08:26 PM