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kareinaThose of you who know me well know that I hate shopping. The parts I hate the very most about it is the not knowing where to look for something, and the need to look more than one place if you want to purchase something major (unless you want to wind up with something that wasn't the best option available given your budget).
I'm not yet ready to go plunk down money, but I did see a gadget yesterday which is appealing, and I think that I'd like to have something like it. One of the students on the geology excursion yesterday had a GPS which also had GoogleEarth, so it would show a satellite image of its current location. Such a thing could be *very* handy when travelling some place new! Apparently the gadget did other useful things like make phone calls, access e-mail and keep track of appointments etc.
Do any of you who like shopping and the sorts of research that purchases of that sort should entail have any information on the topic? I do use a simple mobile phone, but I've never had anything remotely resembling a PDA. If I wanted to save up money for a GPS that has Google Earth, how much would such a thing cost? Where would I find it? What features make one good and another bad? Do any of you have one? What sort? Do you like it? Would you recommend it to someone else, or is there another sort you wish you had instead? Where did you get it? Is there anything else on the subject I should or shouldn't know about?
I did do a quick Google search, and quickly gave up on my quest to find information--it is simply not presented in a way that communicates clearly to the shopping impaired...
I'm not yet ready to go plunk down money, but I did see a gadget yesterday which is appealing, and I think that I'd like to have something like it. One of the students on the geology excursion yesterday had a GPS which also had GoogleEarth, so it would show a satellite image of its current location. Such a thing could be *very* handy when travelling some place new! Apparently the gadget did other useful things like make phone calls, access e-mail and keep track of appointments etc.
Do any of you who like shopping and the sorts of research that purchases of that sort should entail have any information on the topic? I do use a simple mobile phone, but I've never had anything remotely resembling a PDA. If I wanted to save up money for a GPS that has Google Earth, how much would such a thing cost? Where would I find it? What features make one good and another bad? Do any of you have one? What sort? Do you like it? Would you recommend it to someone else, or is there another sort you wish you had instead? Where did you get it? Is there anything else on the subject I should or shouldn't know about?
I did do a quick Google search, and quickly gave up on my quest to find information--it is simply not presented in a way that communicates clearly to the shopping impaired...