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Is there any GPS software which run on windows mobile phone? Is it complicated to use it on the phone?

Many many gps apps in wm, garmim, tomtom, navigon....and still other cheaper but not so much famous gps on internet. You can google them and load some free version to try.

Bit of a worry when people start talking to themselves

I like Garmin Mobile XT. OnCourse Navigator 8 is also quite popular.

GPS for smartphones is a fairly new area for most of the well-known PND companies.

A lot of cellphone manufacturers are building GPS capability directly into the phones, such as Nokia. That means that the application must be much better than the software that comes pre-installed, in order to warrant an additonal expenditure by the user. Most of the older companies aren´t devoting a lot of energy to producing high quality smartphone GPS applications because of that cost.

NDrive is a smaller company that also makes software for Windows Mobile smartphones. It is quite good and easy to use. Their website is not so good but their software certainly is.

Well if they can't design or produce a good and effective web site then you can can only judge what their software is like!

DeLorme Street Atlas has run on Palm OS and PocketPC (now Windows Mobile) since their 2004 edition. That was a separate piece of software from the PC package. The current version of Street Atlas includes the mobile software. You copy maps, waypoints, and routes from the PC onto your mobile device, and whatever GPS you can connect to the device can be utilized by the software, whether it's cabled, Bluetooth, or internal receiver. Street Atlas is about 60 bucks, I think, maybe not even that. You have to have a PC running the package in order to get map data onto the handheld.

For free you can install Google Maps Mobile, and as long as you have a cellular data connection, or wi-fi Internet access, you can get Google maps, along with satellite imagery, and again, it uses whatever GPS you can connect to your device.

Thank you for your advice. I heard about Google maps before. So maybe I will try Google maps and see the result.

Thank you for the useful info. I need this!

true! ) but they have good reviews on their software... maybe they are investing all their money in research and development and the website is done inhouse )))

So website done inhouse? Where did you say the sofwtare was being done? The Outhouse?

Nevermind... it was just a joke.