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Excellent receiver, poor software
I purchased this receiver quite a while ago. The receiver itself works great, syncing to my pda phone via bluetooth with no problems. The software itself however never really worked. It was always creating problems. I actually used mapopolis and tomtom software with it and things were great.
Best thing about the device is you can use batteries with it.

Great product with minor problems
This was my first GPS receiver, I was amazed by the accuracy this thing can provide. The reason I bought this is that I'm a long time Palm PDA user and have several Palms. I was using T3 with this unit and this combo is "flawless".
1. The installation is straight forward, it's not simple but I can't say too complex. And with a 256mb SD card, I can load enough maps.
2. There's no actual installation required. The only thing is the suction holder for the Palm T3. I actually left the receiver on the dash board without any mounting and it works great, as long as I don't accelerate harshly.
3. The interface is very friendly, although sometime scary. You can choose two different types of voice prompts. Without looking at the screen, you will be alert of direction change or merge. It's quite scary if you drive along quietly.
4. The most important fact to me, it's cheap. I already got the Palm, so by spending the least possible money, I can get good enough result. This thing actually saved me several times from totally lost in the wild.

Of course this GPS isn't perfect.
1. The complaint is mainly on the Palm T3 for me about the power. The palm can't hold for even 2 hours. The good thing is the palm could be powered by any USB port, so virtually no money you can get a 12v to USB converter and power the palm. But that's only for use in a car, if you take the combo out to the wild, you have to turn the palm off to save power.
2. The GPS takes quite a long time from cold to lock. When you have to turn the palm off to save power, it became very annoying because every time it's from cold to start.
3. The software is kinda hard when you try to input an address.

Overall, I love this thing, I always keep it in the camera bag so when I set out for any trip, I know I won't lost.

Great hardware, but get TomTom for the software
I bought this back when I had a Palm T3 and it was my first GPS driving aid. As such, it wasn't half bad, though the software was a bit of a pain when entering addresses and sometimes it would pick some rather odd routes for me to follow. On a number of occations I would have to just ignore the damn thing as it tried to route me over some odd bridge that led me on a circuitous route back home.
Since I purchased this, I have switched from Palm to PPC, and have been able to avail myself of the TomTom Navigator 5 software, and all I can say is, WOW!
The software is much more intuitive than Navman's software and plots routes perfectly as far as I can tell. It also provides much ore information, like exit numbers and stuff like that that Navman was always bad at. I use it with the Navman bluetooth antenna, which I still think is great. It goes for a long time on 3 AAA batteries, which are easy to replace on the road.
Quite simply, I love the Navman bluetooth antenna, but I hate the software, and coupled with the fact that they're not supporting palms anymore, I think it really isn't the package to get.
But I love the antenna, and will continue to use it quite happily. Its one annoyance is its blinking blue button which can be annoying if you keep it on your front dash at night. Other than that, I love the thing.
If I could get this antenna with TomTom's software, I'd be a happy man.
(P.S. TomTom's software isn't the end-all-be-all... its TomTom Plus Traffic feature is kind of a joke, but it is better than nothing, which is what Navman provides in the way of traffic info. Garmin is supposed to be better in this respect.)

Get the TomTom instead.
For me, installation wasn't as hard as the other reviewers made it out to be. The GPS unit actually works well, it pairs well with my Tungsten T3 using Bluetooth, and the map displays are all gorgeous.

But I am really beginning to hate a few things: 1) finding addresses goes through a really inefficient, awkward menus; 2) there's no way to automatically pull up addresses in your Palm address book; 3) it doesn't automatically restart the GPS connection if you turn the Palm off and back on, and are back in SmartST; 4) it crashes my Palm occasionally, requiring a *hard* restart (thank goodness I have a backup card); 5) the unit holding the Palm tends to unclip from the window suction unit when the road gets bumpy, and it falls off while I'm driving. Oh, did I also mention that my Tungsten T3 slider collapses on a whim, and it runs out of battery after less than a 2 hour trip? (But that's just a problem with a loose slider on the T3 and short battery life; it's not a fault of the NavMan product.)

That being said, for its core functionality -- navigation -- it really excels. The directions and maps are visually wonderful (I say this for both the 2D, 3D , and just plain text directions it offers); the voice navigation is right-on; and if you take the time to save your addressess as "favorites" before you start off on your drive, it can be a pleasure to use. The Bluetooth GPS unit, if it has a view of open sky, also gets a satellite fix relatively quickly -- as quick as, say, the built-in GPS devices I've seen in some autos.

I bought the receiver/software unit on Amazon for about $160 back when it was on sale. The price has gone up since, and if I were in the market again, I'd take a closer look at TomTom solutions for Palm, or even Mapopolis (though Mapopolis's interface, I hear, isn't quite nearly as nice as that of TomTom or NavMan/SmartST).

Hardware is fantastic. Software doesn't work with T5 though.
I ordered this knowing that it wasn't listed as compatible with my Tungsten T5. I tried many times to get the software to work but it didn't. I ended up installing Mapopolis software and have been using it for over 6 months.

The Navman works perfectly with Mapopolis on my T5. The receiver is very small and sits on my car dashboard. It is small enough that you could put it in a coat pocket or purse if walking around. Battery life is great - I haven't timed it but I'm sure it is around the 15hrs of active use that other people have found. If you are just an occasional user like I am, this translates into months of use before the battery dies.

My only complaint is that they never bothered to update their software to make it compatible with the T5.