the hardware unit is a very nice product, when it works. the time that it takes to sync with satellites varies from seconds to minutes while outdoors. the gps unit seems to cause random weirdness on the handspring when the battery is running below 50% capacity. the included software should not even be installed. look for "mapopolis" and down load the county that you need and go. a fee is charged, but quite reasonable given other alternatives are [disappointing] and overpriced. there are door to door address directions with the platinum edition. i'd say the magellan is still a good value given the alternatives. so, it's still strongly recommendable with a few caveats.