I have Controlvisions setup (AnywhereMap), all bluetooth.
It's a PDA (Ipaq running PocketPC for Windows),
a WAAS GPS
and a satphone - for downloading weather and email (now includes lightning).

3 units, no wires, unless you want to charge their internal batteries
with your cigarette lighter. The satphone isn't small, but the gps is
about the size of a mouse.

I have a friend that has the Ique, which is Garmins PDA, it runs on the
Palm OS. If the possibility of getting weather downloads are or might
be important to you, it's not available on any of the Garmin stand alone
units, and I'm not sure if it is on the Ique.

Read up on AnywhereMap at their forum (forum.controlvision.com), it's
not for everybody. Like PC's and Windows, you're working with a mini
pc with all the warts Windows has, setting up COM ports correctly, setting
up bluetooth, etc. But the weather downloads take about 30 seconds, and
the database updates are every 28 days and take no time at all. They update
the software often also. They recently shrunk the terrain blocks that were
16nm x 16nm down to 1nm x 1nm.

No, I don't work for them, just been a pretty satisfied customer for a
couple
years now.

Chris




"picopirate" wrote in message
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With the rate at which GPS technology changes, I was wondering if its
better
to go with a receiver interfaced with a laptop or palm so that the
software/maps can be updated more easily. Is that a misconception? What
solution provides the most functionality?