hello,

I would like to biuy the keychain gps unit VERSION 2 from chris. what is his screen name or his pm name fpor the forum. his email of course would be the best way to contact him. please send me any helpful info you may have for me so I could send over payment to him. thank you

her info is at the top of the thread post #10 but ill drop her email here:

chris@freedominput.com

above is chris' email address. she should contact you soon with the link to paypal.

be sure and let her know you are a member of this site so that she will know where you got this info from. you should be a member of the site in order to get the good deal..

its not shipping yet but will be soon.

Man I wish I'd known that 2 months after the release of their first keychain GPS unit, there would be a new model that's twice as good for the same price!

In terms of technical specification there is not a great deal of difference between the first version and the second one. The biggest difference is just in the looks and that the first one uses SiRF StarIII and the GPS 2000 uses MTK.

In practical terms you might in "some" areas find that one works slightly better then the other but it is still only going to be a matter of a few seconds off a cold start.

We are still selling the original keychain GPS as well, overall it is no better or worse then the newer one and this just gives people a bigger choice in the style and chipset that they want.

For comparison:
Keychain GPS 2000
Keychain GPS (Original)

the 51 vs. 20 satellites is the thing that caught my attention. I thought might improve on the initial time it takes to find a signal. Sometimes, when travelling, I've sat in my rental car upwards of 10 minutes waiting for a signal.

Paul,

What version of firmware is in the new MTK chipset keychain GPS?

I haven't forgot about this by the way. I don't have this on the spec sheets I have but I'm finding out for you.

Thanks Paul.

For anyone that is interested in discussing the NEW Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 with the MTK GPS chip, please see the following thread:

http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/ppc-6...ps-2000-a.html

Hey, I just got the freedom key chain GPS (didn't know about the 2000 until now), and I'm having trouble getting it to work on my sprint Mogul ppc 6800. It seems to pair up ok, but when I try to use it in Google Maps, it says that it can't find the GPS unit. I tried to set up the COM ports, but I haven't had any luck. I'm new to using a GPS device and messing with the COM ports. If anyone could help me out with this, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

After pairing the device, create a COM port for it by clicking on the "COM ports" tab in the 6800's Bluetooth Settings and then clicking "new outgoing port" and pick the COM port number you want to assign it to (I chose COM4). Then go into the google map settings and tell it to look for the GPS on COM4. That's it. You don't need to change anything in the Windows Mobile "External GPS" program. In case you did change those settings, the "GPS Program Port" should be set to "(None)" and the same for the GPS Hardware Port. You should also have a checkmark next to "Manage GPS automatically".

BTW, I moved your post from the FKG 2000 thread to this one since the thread you posted in is for the 2000 and this one is for the original FKG.