The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 or The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld

by DeLorme

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• ASIN: 0899336795
• Average Customer Review: 1.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #225,851 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)

Product Description

*Newly Released Street Atlas USA 2006 for Handheld and or PC is Now Available!!* Choose from three different Packages! The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006, The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld, or the Blue Logger with both versions of Street Atlas 2006! With the Blue Logger GPS and Street Atlas USA 2006 you can create a GPS track while traveling on a route you've created. Street Atlas USA 2006 mapping software includes detailed and routable street maps of the entire U.S. This package combines the depth of map information and ease of use you need for great vacation planning, work traveling, or simplified map-making. With the Blue Logger and Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld you can now experience the added security of always having exactly the maps you need, conveniently accessible on your handheld computer. The included desktop/laptop software provides detailed maps of the entire U.S. conveniently on CD-ROM, which you use to create exactly the maps and routes you want to synchronize to your PDA.

Customer Reviews

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Street Atlas 2005 HH provides wrong route and hard to use, December 18, 2004

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A newbee with GPS (cincinnati, OH) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 or The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld (Electronics)

I bought the blue logger and both Street atlas 2005 and SA2005 HH for my Dell X50V. No problem with the Blue Logger GPS but my complaints are as follows:

1. Delorme did not include the Blue Logger Manager software on the HH. Now they want to sell it separately for additional $39. Very Weird marketing strategy indeed.

2. The software for the pocket PC is very difficult to use, not very intuitive. It seems the hand held software was developed as an afterthought from the software for the pc. It is poorly designed, and appeared was not fully tested by normal users prior to releasing to market.

3. It is very cumbersome and slow to determine a route. Even with a 620 MHz Axim, it is slow. Worse yet, the route is often wrong. FOr example, this afternoon I use SA2005 to determine a route to a friend's house. Had I followed that route, I would come to a dead end street and have to back track about 10 miles to get to another correct route to my destination. Luckily, I decided to use my paper map. Later, I tried Microsoft Mapping on the internet and it actually gave me the correct routing. Last week for another location, SA2005 found the wrong location for a given address which would take me about 4 miles off. Luckily, I knew where it was and ignored the routing from SA2005 HH.

4. Many other mapping softwares for HH will allow one to use it with 1 hand and often with the finger. But not with SA2005 HH. After 2 weeks of using it, I found myself going back to my old paper map. For example, if I had not calculated a route and just simply use the GPS and map to travel, the software only show the street I was on but no name given and no street name shown for upcoming cross streets. It does not help when you are lost.

5. SA2005 maps seems to be several years old and not very up to date. I guess that's why Delorme does not want to clearly advertise this issue.

I am seriously considering giving up SA2005 and consider this as my $50 learning mistake, and looking at Microsoft Street & Trip 2005 or later in 1Q 2005, IGuidance who is supposed to have the latest map.

I am not alone in this as several other users have also complained on delorme user forum. I wish I had read that forum before buying Delorme software. Well, Live and Learn.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Mine broke quickly! Software is terrible., May 23, 2005

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Penn Stater - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 or The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld (Electronics)

I agree with all the other feedback saying this product is faulty. The on/off button is terrible. It takes 5 tries to turn the unit off. After 5 months of using this, the unit would no longer "talk" with the satellites. I sent it back to DeLorme. It tested bad. Now I have waited 6 weeks for a replacement that is backordered. Customer service rep will not refund your purchase after 30 days! The software claims it will compute driving routes for you...but it will crash your PDA instead. I had to buy INav IGuidance software (which is outstanding) to get software that will actually compute road routes for me. I would not recommend this product to anyone. It has been a complete waste of money for me.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars On/Off, March 22, 2005

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R. Oliver - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 or The Blue Logger & Street Atlas USA 2006 Handheld (Electronics)

It is the year 2005. The 21st Century. We've put men on the moon. We've launched space probes to the edges of our solar system. We can even remotely drive little vehicles along the surfaces of other planets.

But we can't design a simply on/off button.

The on/off button for the Blue Logger is one of the most insanely stupid things I've ever encountered. Some mentally-challenged engineer somewhere decided that you have to hold the button 2-4 seconds to turn it on, and 2-4 seconds to turn it off.

It doesn't *sound* that difficult to do, but in practice it is infuriating, especially when you are trying to turn it on but end up turning it off. Right now the Blue Logger is sitting in front of me and I cannot turn it off. It simply will not turn off.

Oh, and I've had lots of problems connecting it to my Bluetooth adapter, and have yet to get Street Atlas USA 2005 to recognize it.