Customer Reviews

Earthmate GPS BT-20 2008 [Old Version]

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I have had no issues with this product what so ever. I bought the product to use on my laptop with its software and it works flawlessly over usb cable or bluetooth connecting to my Kensington bluetooth adapter. Another reason I wanted a bluetooth gps is too use with my Motorola Q and it connects to it and works flawlessly with Google maps and Microsoft live search.

This is a very useful tool is cheaper and more in deepth then any all-in-one unit.

Bought this when I was mapping and looking for homes in 2007-2008. The GPS was helpful and low cost compared to prices of a standalone unit back then (especially if you already had a PDA). It did its job. Nowdays, just get a Garmin, Magellen, TomTom, .etc.

Pain in the you know what if your PDA software was not user friendly in pairing blue tooth devices (receiver with software). Earthmate GPS unit worked well, but the PDA kept losing its signal blue tooth signal (I blame the PDA). Battery in Earthmate GPS only worked for an hour or two when unplugged from its 12V source.

awesome product! the phone # feature is top notch. for the $, compared to other gps products, you cannot find a better product!

The Delorme GPS unit and the software were exactly as advertised. The software is intuitive and detailed. Installation to the desktop and an older Palm Pilot Tungsten "T" was easy and directions were good. Setting up the Blue Tooth interface to the Palm was so easy it surprised me.

I have taught myself how to use complicated software before and think it is safe to say that this software is not for everyone. Paper based directions would be nice, but they are not included. I called tech support 3 times and waited an hour on hold. The first tech support person told me to "just use help" at the top to figure it out. My response- if I dont know the details of what the software does, how do I know what to look up so I know how to use it? His response, "good question". A few hours later, I am starting to get used to the software. They should really have a quick overview with basics to get you started. Good luck!

I purchased this software specifically for the PDA. Unfortunately, it is very clumsy piece of software and I was getting errors when computing routes. If you are expecting to have the entire US on a SD card and have it on the PDA when traveling you can forget it. You have to export section of the US from the PC software. If you export an area to large then you will get errors from the PC. I was able to export the state of florida and parts georgia but beyond that I could not. Rerouting is not automatic. The voice prompts are not audible and only say a few things. Don't even think about trying to perform a route when driving since icons are close together and requires a lot of effort. The PC version of the software appears to be pretty robust though. I have been reading that iGuidance is better and it more closey resembles the navigation systems that are sold for vehicles. I just figured instead of paying $160+ for a navigation system that only does one thing I would buy this and save about $70+ and get the same thing with my PDA. I was wrong.

This product will not let you search for street names/addresses on a pda ex. palm. Only waypoint, gas stations, etc can be found in a search. Very disappointing product.

I got a refund and going for another product.

I wanted a bluetooth GPS receiver and mapping and I bought this one. I have a new Toshiba P205-S6277. I bought a Kensington BT usb adapter for it. I only got the bluetooth mode to work 1 or 2 times out of 10. After many calls to Delorme, they had me try many things, but none seemed to help. After all this, they determined that it must be my equipment. They said I should get a Belkin bt adapter. It still didn't work. To be honest, I don't know how much is due to Vista.
It works great with the cable to the usb. I like the mapping software, but I bought it for wireless. I was able to return it as it seems to be a hardware problem.
I bought a Garmin Mobile 10. It's a little higher but the bluetooth never fails. It connects everytime. (It had better because it's bluetooth only - no usb cable connection).
I didn't try with WinXP or other. If I had XP and the BT worked, I'd probably give it a thumbs up with 5 stars.
ps. I like the user reviews on Amazon. They help me. I hope some one can use this.

read some of the review about the blue tooth, but wanted to try with my handheld anyways. Purchase this and wound up getting version 2007 plus of street atlas... for some reason (I guess the box) I was expecting 2008. Like most reviewers, I've got a previous version on my pc along with the LT version of the gps device. I've got a more up to date, yet still outdated version of the streets, and a poor excuse for a handheld gps... can't go outside of downloaded maps....

IT sucks.. not lemons, but maybe lemonheads, but i expected that.

This tool is very difficult and awkward to use, look elsewhere. I took this on vacation and ended up using paper maps and an angry spouse. I consider myself a bit of a "techy" and could not make this work right. Here are the reasons I do not recommend this product:
1. Not user friendly - the home screen tab nomenclature has "Xdata" "Find" "Phone" etc. When you click on these, the fields to enter info do not work right. It's not at all clear what to do.
2. When moving the map around on the screen, you have to move the cursor to the perimeter to have the "hand" pop up. If riding in a car, it is difficult to keep the hand engaged to move the map, too sensitive. Also, when the map finally moves it leaves a blank pattern in its wake until the sytem catches up.
3. The Palm OS use is a joke. It takes way too much time to determine a route. The GPS cursor drifts and you really cannot tell where you are. If you go off track, the system will not reconfigure your route automatically. The Palm screen is too dim to use in day light.

Bottom Line: Spend the money and buy a TomTom portable GPS.