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Maybe Sein can help a bit? I read you have a nokia now, you had a Treo before, right?

Yup, I had 2 Treos and now a Nokia. Used them all quite a lot. Used Tomtom 5 and 6 on the Palm and Tomtom 6 on the Nokia.

I'll try and point out the differences from a Navigation point of view.
  • The extra screen size of the Palm is definitely useful in the car.
  • The Tomtom 6 display was a little smoother on my Treo 650 than on my Nokia. On a complex junction, the Nokia has a hard time refreshing the screen fast enough. The Palm was slightly better. Tomtom 5 on Palm was smooth as butter.
  • Absolutely the best thing about navigation on Nokia is the audio path will be sent through a Bluetooth audio device if you have one paired at the same time. This way I get navigation instructions coming through my car kit, and if I had a earpiece thing I would get it through there.
  • Because the Nokia has multi-tasking, I can take a call while navigating and the audio is mixed nicely, its pretty cool. The Treo would have real issues if someone called while I had the navigation running.
  • Can't really say for the E60, but my E61 has outstanding battery life. Used it on a 100 mile cycling challenge, and it took it in its stride with over 10 hours navigation use including breaks and driving to and from the start line. This is with the keylock on and the screen on standby with Tomtom in the background. That definitely would not have worked on the Palm.
  • I find it handy to have it on the phone rather than on a seperate device like a PDA. A friend can text me a new address, and I can find out how long it takes to get there in no time. Its good for planning, even without the GPS around. Also you can put peoples addresses in the phonebook and navigate to them without inputting it into Tomtom. This works great on Palm but is extremely slow on the Nokia.
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Only the nummeric keypad, how do you select an adress without a touchscreen?

Aah, the surprising thing is that its actually just as fast as the touchscreen! As you can imagine you can use the direction pad to move around, but the best way is to tap the number that corresponds with the menu item. Each option has a key assigned to it that you can press directly. Its easy when you see it.
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