Baked Beans, Pork Pie and a Pocket PC Please?

[Jonathon Watkins]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.nechbi.com/archives/pocket_pc/000115.html' target='_blank'>http://www.nechbi.com/archives/pock..._pc/000115.html</a><br /><br /></div>If you want a Pocket PC bundled with GPS, where do you go? If you're in the UK, then the answer may be your local supermarket. Nechbi.com report: "If you fancy a Pocket PC with GPS then the place to go to is LIDL. The cheap German supermarket chain is offering a 400MHz Typhoon PPC with Windows Mobile 2003, 64Mb RAM, 32 ROM and Maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card! Only £349 from 8th April 2003. Get it before it goes!" So there!<br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/lidlppc.jpg" /><br /><i><span>Exit Stage Left at Lidl</span></i><br /><br />You can see the full specs at <a href="http://www.lidl.co.uk/gb/index.nsf/pages/c.o.oow.20040408.p.Satellite_Navigation_System_with_Pocket_PC">Lidl's website</a>. This thing includes maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card. Pretty good going really! Bear in mind that this is only available from stores in London, the South East and the South West of England and South Wales. I wonder if Lidl will ever get round to helping technically lacking &amp; lost Scottish, Welsh speakers, Northern Irish and Northerners. :wink: <br /><br />We previously posted that <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=26041&amp;">Evesham</a> and <a href="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=25881&amp;">Halfords</a> are also selling similar units, but with integrated GPS across the UK – for slightly more mulla, naturally. Who would have thought it?

[jizmo]

I can see the shopping lists already; "250g of ham, milk, a pda, flour .."

We also have had the Lidl invasion here in Finland - it'd be neat if they'd start importing that cheap german electronics, too.

Maybe they could start selling these by the pound?

/jizmo

[Delta737]

Nothing new. The aldi here in the Netherlands had pocket pcs with GPS a couple of times. The lidl also sells the pocket pcs here

[darrylb]

So do they deliver internationally? :lol:

[manywhere]

We also have had the Lidl invasion here in Finland - it'd be neat if they'd start importing that cheap german electronics, too.

Maybe they could start selling these by the pound?
Lidl has already had an interesting AMD 64-bit computer and now this?
They are sure beating the Citymarket with some heavyduty computing! :lol: Fujitsu-Siemens PCs from the last millennuim are a piece of junk that shouldn't even be sold anymore-- still, Kesko are selling it for a way higher price than they should. :?

Also (a bit OT), second class fruits sold by "normal" Finnish stores are nothing compared to the fruits sold by Lidl. Lidl has better quality fruits for a way better price... 8O
In short, Finnish stores have a lot to learn from Lidl -- and maybe Lidl has something to learn from them too (consumer service, at least). :mrgreen:

[jizmo]

Also (a bit OT), second class fruits sold by "normal" Finnish stores are nothing compared to the fruits sold by Lidl. Lidl has better quality fruits for a way better price... 8O

A "bit" off-topic, eh? :D

My only rant is that when I try to buy the fair-trade bananas, only to find out that most of the time they look like someone has been jumping on them.

Maybe it's a some sort of industrial sabotage? :worried:

/jizmo

[jlp]

Sorry lads, but to me this thing does NOT have GPS.

First this is a rebadged ASUS MyPal 620 which has no buil-in GPS, then the Lidl page does not even mention GPS anywhere on the page.

It's Necbi who mentions it, but it looks like they wrongly equate maps with GPS 8O.

[Jonathon Watkins]

It's Necbi who mentions it, but it looks like they wrongly equate maps with GPS 8O.

Well, the Lidl website says this:

Satellite Navigation System with Pocket PC

....

The complete system
- For navigation, route planning, mobile data management and processing,
for playing MP3 and Windows Media 9™ files
- NEW! Including map
- Pre-installed Software
- Maps for the whole of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 256MB Compact-Flash-Card


They don't mention GPS, but what else is a Satellite Navigation System?

Unless Lidl's website is wrong?

[darrylb]

Unless they mean that the Satellite Navigation system is on a card....? :?

[Duncan]

Satellite Navigation System with Pocket PC

The clue is in the 'with' I'm afraid. This Pocket PC does not have built-in GPS but comes bundled wth GPS.

[ctitanic]

Well, that´s my doubt too. Where is the GPS there, I think that any GPS need an antenna and I don´t see any in that PDA.

[Jonathon Watkins]

Thanks guys - updated the post to reflect this.

[David Johnston]

Thanks guys - updated the post to reflect this.

Not according to the first paragraph you didn't :)

If you want a Pocket PC bundled with GPS, where do you go? ...

[Jonathon Watkins]

Thanks guys - updated the post to reflect this.

Not according to the first paragraph you didn't :)

If you want a Pocket PC bundled with GPS, where do you go? ...

The original post read "If you want a Pocket PC with integrated GPS, where do you go? ", so actually, I did. :)

Bundled seems to be a good description of what they are offering - what what I have seen. If anyone has any more details then please let me know and Ill clarify the post. I'm just going on what I can tell from the two sources.

[David Johnston]

I wonder what their support is like...

The original post read "If you want a Pocket PC with integrated GPS, where do you go? ", so actually, I did. :)

Oh poo, my mistake (I seem to say that a lot recently...!)

[jlp]

Indeed, since they seem pretty meticulous in their listing and since they don't mention any GPS electronics (mouse-sized for example) and because the PPC does not integrates GPS electronics as well, so either they forgot to list it or think that the mapping software is enough :roll:.

Only somebody from the area who could go check (or call) could really make sure!!

[xyberfish]

correct me if I am wrong but that PDA looks identical to Asus Mypal 620