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While I do not own a Sky Scout (but I would like to), I do own an Argo Navis...my two cents...
I do not think you are comparing apples to apples in asking your question.
The AN is a high level, top shelf set of digital setting circles and when properly set up on a telescope mount is a great tool in finding deep sky and other objects of interest. It is outstandingly accurate (when aligned properly) and I highly recommend it.
The Sky Scout on the other hand is not a digital setting circle...it is a neat tool to help people become more familiar with the sky. It does not have the accuracy to enable it to be used to find deep sky objects. As I understand it the number of items it can find is rather limited. It is meant to be used "hand held" as metal in a scope can through off its GPS system. There is a nifty forum over on Cloudy Nights about it...
Don't get me wrong, I am very interested in the Sky Scout as a teaching tool and think it might be heaps of fun to use and will no doubt get new people interested in Astronomy (a good thing)...but, it is not really meant to be a competitor to the AN or other digital setting circles.
Cheers!
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