After connecting my HTC Artemis to TomTom Home utility today, I got a message annoucing the availability of Connect2Internet database update. As the information message says (see above), the Connect2Internet database is supposed to include connection details for different mobile phones and mobile phone operators. The size of the update is 400 KB and the files named Connect2Internet.db and Connect2Internet.so were installed to Storage Card.

Recentely I tested two GPS utilities for WindowsMobile PDA‘s. The first of them is called VisualGPSce and works very well on HTC Artemis. VisualGPSce is GPS software that displays GPS data in both text and graphical form. Moreover, the data can be exported into a file. You can find more information here.

The second utility I was testing on HTC Artemis is called GPSAuto. Installation runs OK but while trying to access the GPS, the utility freezes and PDA has to be restarted. It is a pity as I would welcome some advanced speed-watching software. Anyway, the product pages are here.

After a few weeks of using TomTom Navigator 6, I was able to rearrange the application and settings menu. I believe that handling of the application is now much more comfortable than it was with the default settings. For customizing the TomTom menu, I used a program called TomTom Menu Designer. If you are interested you can download my TomTom.mnu file here; TomTom Menu Designer is available here. When you finish your own TomTom.mnu, you have to copy the file into the root directory of your PDA into the TomTom/SdkRegistry folder. If you want to get back the default TomTom menu, you just delete the TomTom.mnu file or the folders.

One of the companies that TomTom uses for their navigation maps is TeleAtlas. Recently I have been searching the TeleAtlas website and found some interesting information there. What hit my eyes at the very beginning was a product datasheet with detailed European maps descriptions. Here are some of the details for CZE maps (i.e. Czech Republic, Product Release MultiNet 2007.01):

PocketPC Thoughts published a very nice review of TomTom Navigator 6 – i.e. the navigation software that is included in the Extended_ROM of HTC Artemis. If you are interested, it is available here. Actually, you should not miss it …