Wordwizard Clubhouse - cool beans

start there. i dont know where i picked it up but ive been saying it for decades...

Hi Chris here again.....

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.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,

Chris.

Ok, potential retard question coming

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.

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.

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?

I think it has something to do with the chipset.

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

...care to share this track software???

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