Gizmodo had a list of five recommended Road Trip Gadgets. Most of them I recognize and agree with the recommendations (we should all be so lucky as to have a Dell Precision Mobile Workstation with internal EV-DO mini-card). But one of them I was unfamiliar with and found intriguing:
“Mio C710 Digiwalker – The Mio C710 Digiwalker is more than just a highly accurate GPS device with maps for all of North America inside and natural-sounding voice commands giving you turn-by-turn directions. It’s an excellent multimedia player, with a bright and sharp 3.5-inch display that can play MPEG4 and DivX movies for you, and also handles all the MP3s you can cram onto an SD flash disk. Plus, it works seamlessly with your Bluetooth phone, giving you a hell of a good-sounding speakerphone and showing you caller ID when the phone rings, too. It’s easy on the pocketbook as well, cheaper than most GPS units at $600.”
But with this in your kit, I don’t know why you’d still need a Garmin StreetPilot (item no. 1 on their list). I mean, how lost are you planning to get?