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 - Works Great, Awkward InterfaceFor anyone who has used Microsoft Streets & Trips for years, as I have, and loved it, Delorme products have a learning curve. I have tried their products over the years for the laptop but have always gone back to S&T, especially now with voice commands and nice screen improvements. The Delorme product for the handheld is a step above S&T for the handheld in that you do get voice directions and can route a trip right on the Ipaq. Both products work great with bluetooth GPS. Getting the map to the Ipaq is a very different process than with S&T and it is not intuitive at all. It takes time and practice, but once mastered, it works great. As to streets missing or wrong, that is the case with all maping software. They all have missing info and errors. I would give this product five stars, since you get the desktop version along with the handheld version in the one inexpensive package, but the awkward interface that Delorme switched to about five years ago allows me to only give the product four stars. Rating:  - Affordable Mapping Software for PDA's with GPSI used this for my recent trip to Atlanta and it guided me through the best route I've ever driven. Just in case it may not be that effective, I also brought print-outs with the corresponding directions but I never needed it. The setting was a little confusing in the beginning as I don't usually read the manual. The voice direction was handy and it would recalculate the route when I missed a turning point. Snazzy, isn't it? The only complaint is the voice direction for turning only uses 'less than one mile' instead of Mapopolis' nice feet-based detailed distance notifications. Well, after all, Mapopolis costs around $100, while Street Atlas Handheld is only less than $50. Hmmm, they lowered the price... damn! In all, I'm pretty satisfied for its performance. I used Dell Axim X4 400 MHz running on PPC2002. Rating:  - I caution potential purchasersI'm afraid that I have no confidence in this software. My entire subdivision is absent from map (we have occupied this home for 6 years) as is our nearby community hospital (which was there well before our subdivision). How could I ever trust this software to find my way around an unfamiliar area. I am very disappointed and the seller would not accept a return even for store credit.
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