After Andrew introduced me to a 2,800 KM long demonstration of his Navman satellite solution, which went pretty smooth, I had to get onto the wagon.
The demonstration was our trip from Kingston to Kokkedal to collect furniture over a bank holiday weekend. The only thing that went wrong was that I drove all the way there and back, including Copenhagen sightseing in flip flop sandals. This is another story though.
My solution is an installation of TomTom version 3 which enables for download of speed camera locations and all the point of interests (POIs) you can think off. I can find any cashpoint, petrolstation, Tesco, B&Q etc. in the UK.
TomTom doesn't deal with POIs very well and thus I have installed checkPOInt 3.2 on my Pocket PC. Via a client software on your home PC you can select TONS of interesting points. There are loads from the UK e.g. buslane cameras, Sainsbury, etc etc and for Denmark Bilka, Foetex, Brugsen, Netto etc are represented. Should you find errors, you can update their database here.
Every time I synchronise the Pocket PC (PPC) with the PC, it checks my selected interests for any updates and thus there should be NO danger for missing a shopping opportunity anymore.
As TomTom (although expensive enough) doesn't incorporate European maps with their UK version, I bought a discontinued version of the Navman software, which allows me to download European maps to my PPC every time we are going to Continental Europe. These maps are a couple of years out of date but works perfectly fine for our needs.
Regarding the GPS receiver, I waited a year or two before buying and thus benefited from the extensive research & development resources that are put into this field. By having 12 receivers, the unit called GlobalSat BT338, is capable of receiving from a pocket or a glove compartment, which the first versions weren't. (They almost had to "see" the sky to work).
As there is an extensive development going on, the products are continously enhanced and thus it is recommended to browse pocketgpsworld for latest reviews.
