Being a labrat for this study I can describe exactly how the program works. Theres three pieces, your pocket pc, your modem, and your gps receiver.
To get it to work you must turn on the products in this order,
-Turn on GPS
-Put Modem in Pocket Pc
-Turn on pocket pc
-Connect to the network
-Start the nav program
If you don't do this rain dance in front of your palm pc it will not work. It is very picky about how it wants to work, and is NOT open to interpretation. Furthermore this program is obviously in beta testing there are a lot of issues that occur, such as randomly losing all the data on the flash card that holds the programs for the study, or not being able to connect to the network. Personally one thing I've learned about this program is how unstable Windows CE really is.
Now to the day to day operations of the program
It has voice directions that tells you where to go to avoid traffic, although since its going though small speakers its not very loud, and if people listen to music the way I do you'll never hear it. Also since its using mapquest type directions sometimes it gives you directions that make no sense, like to get to my house to the highway it gives me a dozen turns, when I know that i can get to the highway in one turn and 10 minutes faster.
I have seen it work however, on my way to school it will direct me around the huge wall of traffic that occurs everyday at one stoplight.
Overall I'm not a huge fan of any technology that uses gps to know exactly where you are. I'm partaking since it is a fun study and its free. Once the study's over I'll most likely never use it again and put my unit up on ebay. But for people on a long trip or for people who live in an area that has traffic problems (Albany NY DOES NOT have traffic problems despite what the article said) I could see this being useful.
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With the advent of so many video game movies
Mario
Street Fighter
Mortal Combat
Doom!?!
When are we going to see a pac man movie?
For the easiest buffer overflow ever, just fireup good ol' Windows 95. That'll give you more buffer overflows than you could shake a stick at.
Being a labrat for this study I can describe exactly how the program works. Theres three pieces, your pocket pc, your modem, and your gps receiver. To get it to work you must turn on the products in this order, -Turn on GPS -Put Modem in Pocket Pc -Turn on pocket pc -Connect to the network -Start the nav program If you don't do this rain dance in front of your palm pc it will not work. It is very picky about how it wants to work, and is NOT open to interpretation. Furthermore this program is obviously in beta testing there are a lot of issues that occur, such as randomly losing all the data on the flash card that holds the programs for the study, or not being able to connect to the network. Personally one thing I've learned about this program is how unstable Windows CE really is. Now to the day to day operations of the program It has voice directions that tells you where to go to avoid traffic, although since its going though small speakers its not very loud, and if people listen to music the way I do you'll never hear it. Also since its using mapquest type directions sometimes it gives you directions that make no sense, like to get to my house to the highway it gives me a dozen turns, when I know that i can get to the highway in one turn and 10 minutes faster. I have seen it work however, on my way to school it will direct me around the huge wall of traffic that occurs everyday at one stoplight. Overall I'm not a huge fan of any technology that uses gps to know exactly where you are. I'm partaking since it is a fun study and its free. Once the study's over I'll most likely never use it again and put my unit up on ebay. But for people on a long trip or for people who live in an area that has traffic problems (Albany NY DOES NOT have traffic problems despite what the article said) I could see this being useful.