Magellan GPS Companion – The Power of GPS on Your Palm

The Magellan GPS Companion gives you the ability to turn your Palm m500 into a lightweight handheld GPS unit. This hardware add-on offers the advantages of the latest GPS technology that keeps you abreast of where you are and where you want to go with its advanced navigation technology.

This little unit is a 12 channel receiver that houses a Helix antenna with WAAS (Wide Area Augmentation System) capability that gives you enhanced position accuracy. It weighs only 4 ounces and snaps quickly and easily into the back of the palm. Two triple-A batteries give this GPS unit around 12 hours of working life.

The companion GPS receiver comes with Magellan’s NAV companion software that runs on the Palm. This will show you the satellite signal strength as it keeps track of your position on latitude, longitude, and elevation. This software will also keep track of how fast you are traveling as well as your heading, how far you have traveled, and how long it will take to reach your next waypoint based on rate of advance.

You will also find Rand McNally’s StreetFinder Deluxe software included with the GPS Companion. This award winning travel navigation software includes over one million points of interest that will guide you to hotels, restaurants, gas stations, airports, businesses, ATMS, and more.

The Companion will keep track of where you are and guide you turn-by-turn to your destination. You can create and modify maps on your home computer or laptop, then hotsync to your palm and you are on your way. The Companion software gives you the ability to save your positions and waypoints along the way leaving you a bread crumb trail to follow if you need to backtrack.

The Magellan GPS Companion is a great way to add the power of a GPS system to your palm. Small, lightweight, and full of features you’ll be confident that it will guide you no matter where you want to go.