In terms of how long your delivery will take to reach you - Marty is spot on.
In terms of when am I shipping - when I email you the paypal button, I indicate in that email the likely ship date.
We are inundated with orders from you all and orders are continuing to flood in. I am allocating stock on a first come first served basis. At the moment, I have just received this week's stock and I am currently shipping out all last week's orders. Those that ordered from Sunday night onwards are having their orders allocated out of next week's incoming stock.
So we know this thing can be clipped to your keyring. Can you just turn it on while the keys are in the ignition and expect to get a signal? I always put my gps up on the dash.
Very tempted to get one of these and ebay my telenav unit.
Oh and for the person who asked about telenav - yes, it does do turn by turn directions. When you plan a route, it pulls it from their website. If you go off course, it reconnects and recalculates. Only drawback is if you don't have a phone signal and you go way off course.......
Dang... I knew it was a retard question when I asked it. I'm gonna post what I found in case anyone else is curious...
Perfect for adding to a key ring, always there when you need it. Charge it up in your car or at home. No need to take it off the key ring in the car, and when walking it can stay with your keys in your pocket, briefcase, handbag, rucksack or anywhere else you want and still maintain an accurate lock with the GPS satellites. Ideal for connecting wirelessly to your notebook, PDA or Mobile Phone by state of the art Bluetooth technology.
yes, it does do turn by turn directions. When you plan a route, it pulls it from their website. If you go off course, it reconnects and recalculates. Only drawback is if you don't have a phone signal and you go way off course.......
This would make telenav completely unusable in my case. I am often on the road on my way to a customer meeting & doing conference calls at the same time. I can't make a choice between GPS & phone in these situations.
Dang... I knew it was a retard question when I asked it. I'm gonna post what I found in case anyone else is curious...
Perfect for adding to a key ring, always there when you need it. Charge it up in your car or at home. No need to take it off the key ring in the car, and when walking it can stay with your keys in your pocket, briefcase, handbag, rucksack or anywhere else you want and still maintain an accurate lock with the GPS satellites. Ideal for connecting wirelessly to your notebook, PDA or Mobile Phone by state of the art Bluetooth technology.
That's not really a retard question, cuz I had it to well anyway I don't understand why my tomtom won't work unless it's mounted on the dash, yet this will work in your pocket. Has something changed in the technology in the past few years that would enable this?
well anyway I don't understand why my tomtom won't work unless it's mounted on the dash, yet this will work in your pocket. Has something changed in the technology in the past few years that would enable this?
Yep The Mini GPS has a very sensitive GPS chipset which is not effected by small objects such as pockets, briefcases, cars, etc being in its line of sight with the satellites. The other bonus to this is that it can pick up very weak satellite signals that other GPS units might not which gives a much more accurate position.
To quote someone from the BB forum:
"Received mine earlier this week. Started using it (read playing with my new toy) immediately. Very accurate and quick response rate. Has now replaced my Garmin portable in my car for travel. The claims that it works in your pocket or in your briefcase are also true. Using it with Google Maps, mainly because I am a creature of habit and it is free! "
Even though I work with them this is still my new favorite toy I have been playing with some tracking software recently which records journey information (speed, distance traveled, route, etc) which could be quite handy and its pretty fun to mess about with as well
The one I'm testing at the moment is called BBtracker (not surprisingly a BlackBerry application). Open source and in early stages of development at the moment so its not perfect but is a nice little App for anyone with a BlackBerry. bbTracker - Trac
There are a lot of other freeware gps track logging apps for PPC's as well but haven't had chance to try to many yet.
I never thought about it much before but there are more uses for GPS units on a PDA. I'm hoping I get chance to try this one out over the weekend (don't think I could get Chris to agree to give me the day off tomorrow for "testing" purposes ). Pocket mCaddy GPS **BETA** 0.41b Windows Mobile Pocket PC
I would like to find some free GPS navigation software for Symbian 9 S60 devices though (Nokia N73 specifically) so if anyone has any suggestions let me know. Doesn't need to be anything fancy but if it can tell me where I am and give me a rough idea of how to get to where I want to go it will be fine
Last edited by Paul Bowles : 08-09-2007 at 12:16 PM.
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yeah i have clarion units in my cars and they give you speed, distance to location, time to location, time to arrive at present speed, tells you the speed limits on the roads, traffic cams, traffic alerts.... GPS does indeed have more than just directions... thanks for the ppc heads up... im going to smoke them over...
cool beans... i am spoiled and would rather have the GPS talk to me rather than me look on screen... this will be my first time using GPS on phones (i have GPS in the cars) so it will be a fun experiment...
Please let us know how the experiment goes.
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I think it calls their servers when creating a route and Downloads the required maps in one shot. I've both made and received calls while navigating just fine. Also, I've received SMS and Exchange pushmail while navigating. I'm very pleased with Telenav right now. Only (minor) drawback is that off-route re-routing takes a few seconds longer than having maps loaded since it's another data hit to their servers. OTOH, Telenav is smart enough to keep navigating via the programmed route and "predictive" logic so if you emerge from a tunnel, for instance, the program has a pretty good idea where you are.
cool beans... i am spoiled and would rather have the GPS talk to me rather than me look on screen... this will be my first time using GPS on phones (i have GPS in the cars) so it will be a fun experiment...
How are you going to HEAR it without having your radio off? Or wired through the aux. jack, in which case, no radio either.
who said the radio needs to be off? you mean the phones radio and not car radio correct? i am not following your question. im ASSuming the audio comes thru the speakerphone but even if it didn't i can use the headset jack and play it thru the cars system. no worries mate...
who said the radio needs to be off? you mean the phones radio and not car radio correct? i am not following your question. im ASSuming the audio comes thru the speakerphone but even if it didn't i can use the headset jack and play it thru the cars system. no worries mate...
I'm talking about the car radio. Since the volume on the speaker phone is relatively low compared to a music or talk radio station at a comfortable listening level, how would you hear it? And if piping it through the car radio set to aux., you can't listen to AM or FM. Or am I missing something?
ahh grasshoppa, im pickin' up what your layin' down...
i will pipe the audio thru the system. ill also try to just use the speakerphone and play music on the cars system as well. again this is all experiment for me as i have never used GPS with the phone b4. i also stated earlier that i already have navigation in the cars anyway so this will not be a primary solution for me.
if speakerphone vol is too low while the radio is playing and/or just road noise, then ill opt to not using voice prompts and just consider using google maps/other freebies that will suffice. clearly many people use telenav/others for the voice prompts so there is some degree of success out there in the real world, but i dont plan to depend on this setup anyway... :p
well anyway I don't understand why my tomtom won't work unless it's mounted on the dash, yet this will work in your pocket. Has something changed in the technology in the past few years that would enable this?
The Mini GPS has a very sensitive GPS chipset which is not effected by small objects such as pockets, briefcases, cars, etc being in its line of sight with the satellites. The other bonus to this is that it can pick up very weak satellite signals that other GPS units might not which gives a much more accurate position.
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