Bluetooth for Go Classic

dadio · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 5

There are a lot of TomTom Go Classic owners, surely some enterprising manufacturer could develop a tomtom go cradle adaptor that would effectively convert the classic into a bluetooth device.

HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

Mmm so are you saying TTG is 'old' technology? Bummer if this is the case seeing as I just bought one.

So is there a threat that TTG will not be supported some time in the near future or are TT dedicated to supporting all models?

dadio · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 5

The TomTom Go 300, 500 and 700 will be replacing the classic from some timew in the summer. With the v5 upgrade the major difference will be the bluetooth capability. If the classic can have this then it will not be an obsolete platform, if not, the lack of bluetooth could leave us all behind in the techy stakes

alix776 · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject:

the platform will still be supported the only difference between the current go and the new range is that the 300 onwards are bluetooth capable the software is the same
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HOG · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 15, 2005 Posts: 114

Pheww

Thnx for making me happy again Smile

dadio · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 17, 2005 Posts: 5

What I was suggesting was that if someone would come up with a bluetooth add on we could then have all the facilities available on the later models

alix776 · Posted: Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:02 pm Post subject:

as far as i know or remember the usb socket is only slave usb so wouldnt be capable of bluetooth
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gingernut777 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:01 am Post subject:

Oldboy · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 7:42 am Post subject:

Tim Buxton · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:39 am Post subject:

The Compare page suggests that the Bluetooth Carkit isn't included with the 300, which isn't the same as the unit itself not being Bluetooth enabled. I think that further clarification from Tomtom is in order, though.
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gingernut777 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:40 am Post subject:

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:12 am Post subject:

The Go 300 is a bluetooth device.

The feature that is missing is the Handsfree phone. It is still able to access traffic and the rest of the plus services using the BT connection.
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gingernut777 · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:41 am Post subject:

MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:53 am Post subject:

You can pair it with a mobile phone. As I said above. What is missing is the headset/handsfree profile, and associated hardware.

It uses a seperate modem profile to access the Plus services.
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MikeB · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:21 am Post subject:

The best comparison whaich shows these features is at http://www.tomtom.com/lib/compare.pdf

This clearly shows all the new GOs are BT enabled, but only the 500 and 700 have handsfree phone functions.

Now the real point of this topic was can the current GO have a trd party addon to enable it for bluetooth. I think that it "may" be physically impossible without internal modifications depending on the connectors exposed on the mount.

Assuming that you do have the correct connecters though and can get the data into the GO you would still need to:

1) Design and build a new connector with the BT Module in it.
2) Modify the internal software of the GO to accept the modem/internet data via the external connector.
3) Find someone with sufficient capital for the hardware development
4) Access to the core software kernel and development tools to modify the BT section of the GO software.

So taking all of these into consideration it is unlikely that even if possible this will get off the ground.
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