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"Pocket Navigator’s latest 5.0 release can run on "Smartphones" -cellphones using the Windows Mobile operating system. The test unit worked nicely with a Bluetooth wireless GPS, its 1-gigabyte memory card offered ample raster-chart storage, and the keypad-driven interface was good enough for backup plotting. But what’s really impressive is how the Pocket Navigator easily fetches and overlays NOAA radar data."
- Ben Ellison, Sail Magazine
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"How I use Pocket Navigator for Search and Rescue." Read the entire article.
- Kevin M. Brewer, SAR Instructor
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"While the navigation package on my iPAQ doesn’t do anything that hasn’t been done before, it puts it all into one solution in a very small package that’s so much more convenient than the alternatives." Read the entire article.
- Doug Elmore
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"A comparison with the displays of handheld GPSs is simply no contest. The Pocket PC's display is in color, rather than monochrome, and resolution is 2-1/3 times that of, say, the Garmin eMap, one of the better displays among hand-held GPSs." Read the full Review.
- Practical Sailor
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"Maptech's Pocket Navigator lets you view your position in real time, on a topo map or chart! ...This nifty product takes GPS use [outdoors] to a new level.... This innovation by Maptech is impressive, but not surprising -- Maptech is often impressive." Read the full Review.
- Russ Chastain - Hunting/Shooting Editor, about.com
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"For navigating on water, the Maptech Pocket Navigator software exceeds the information available on most marine chart plotters. Position and routes can be displayed on digital NOAA charts as well as coastal topographic maps and aerial pictures."
- Powerboat Magazine
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"The raster charts that Pocket Navigator uses are much clearer than the somewhat primitive vector charts used by most chart plotters and handheld GPSs with charting capability." Read the full Review
- Practical Sailor
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"Maptech software is functional, easy to use, and extremely well thought out. A Pocket PC and a GPS receiver teamed up with Terrain Navigator provide the outdoor enthusiast with a new way stay on the path and track progress while trekking through the wilderness. I'm impressed and will continue to use this software for a long time."
- Pocket PC Magazine
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"Pocket Navigator...is at age one the granddaddy of PDA navigation, and its 3.0 version is still the one to beat."
- Sail Magazine
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"Maptech's Pocket Navigator software turns your Pocket PC into a richly detailed terrain map or nautical chart. Move to different places on the map with a touch of a stylus or hook up a global positioning system for real-time tracking on your journey."
- Sports Illustrated
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"A major benefit of using handhelds over standalone GPS receivers is the quality and detail of the maps on the handhelds. Features such as color, topography and water depth that don't show up on standard GPS receivers are found on the PDAs."
- Sailing
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"Maptech has released a gee-whiz program that turns a Pocket PC into a full-functioning chartplotter. If you don't want to take a full-sized laptop computer on board, or you're thinking about buying a portable GPS chartplotter, a Pocket PC with Maptech's Pocket Navigator program is cheaper, faster, more colorful and easier to use."
- Motor Boating
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"For the longest time, if you wanted to use a GPS plotter off the highway, you needed a computer in your rig. And if you had an open-top rig, you needed a daylight-readable display. Now, Maptech has a real-world solution that works: the Pocket Navigator."
- 4WD & Sport Utility
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"It's a slick package. Before a trip, I boot up the software's PC module and select the raster charts and topos I want, build routes if needed, and download everything to the handheld's memory card. Once I'm outdoors or have the iPAQ mounted to my boat or car windshield, the GPS acquires position, and the magic begins. Friends looking over my shoulder, particularly ones familiar with regular plotters and/or PC charting, are invariably astounded at how sharp the charts look, how fast they zoom using the control keys, and how smoothly they pan when dragged with a stylus pen or one's fingertip."
- Power & Motor Yacht
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