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jrisch Occasional Visitor
Joined: Oct 27, 2005 Posts: 38
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 12:51 pm Post subject: What phone to buy for GPS? |
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I shall be changing my mobile phone soon. I'm currently on Vodafone and would prefer to stay with them. I'm considering the Nokia 6680 and a bluetooth GPS receiver. I'm currently using TTN5 on a PPC so would expect to use TomTom Mobile on the phone. I'd appreciate suggestions for what the receiver should be. In addition, this will be often used on a motorbike, hence I would be using a bluetooth headset. Can this or any other phone have two bluetooth connections, one to the headset and one to the GPS receiver?
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peterc10 Frequent Visitor
Joined: Aug 21, 2005 Posts: 1761 Location: Kent, England
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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Don't know if it possible with a smart mobile like the Nokia.
It is certainly possible with a PPC 2003 based phone system - I have my Ipaq 6340 talking to both car kit and sat nev receiver at the same time. However I am told it is not possible with Palm based PDA and Phone systems - they can only have one BT connection open at a time. |
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alix776 Pocket GPS Moderator
Joined: 03/05/2003 14:45:49 Posts: 3999 Location: leyland lancs ENGLAND
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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most series 60 or series 80 nokias will take tomtom mobile 5 but i not sure about the audio going through the headset _________________ currently using aponia truck navigation on windows phone. Good bye IOS don't let the door hit you on the way out .
Oh the joys of being a courier.
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Adek Regular Visitor
Joined: Dec 01, 2005 Posts: 70 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I am not sure how correct this is but I remember reading that one of the limitations to bluetooth was that it only works with one device at a time. Hence why WiFi has many advantages.
The conclusion is that the techies were working on a new bluetooth technology to enable several pieces of kit to talk to one another at the same time, but I would guess this is not available at the moment.
You may need to consider a combination of connections, bluetooth, wifi, cable to match multiple connectivity. _________________ .......
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jrisch Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the input. I guess that's what I suspected, that either the bluetooth talks to the headset or the GPS but not both. It looks like I'll have to use a wired headset then. I do have a 2.5 mm jack to bluetooth adapter so a phone that had a conventional headphone socket could work but the Nokias have this "pop-port" now
Any suggestions for alternative series 60/80 phones and bt GPS units?
Regards, John |
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kartracer Frequent Visitor
Joined: 26/03/2003 20:15:33 Posts: 502 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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Adek wrote: | I am not sure how correct this is but I remember reading that one of the limitations to bluetooth was that it only works with one device at a time. | This is not a limitation of bluetooth technology, but is probably a limitation of many devices that implement it. I have sucessfully used a Pocket PC (iPaq 5550) with a Bluetooth GPS receiver (TomTom II) and a handsfree kit for PPC audio output both at the same time. I have also had success using a Nokia N70 instead of the iPaq, but have not got yet around to trying the latter combination with TT Mobile 5, although it did work with Route 66 Mobile 7. _________________ Kam |
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Denis Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 21, 2005 Posts: 40 Location: GRANTHAM, LINCS UK
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Hi jrisch, have just read this thread, and I am in the process of setting up a system using bluetooth for use on a motorbike, and you can have more than two devices linked together using bluetooth. Take a look at this site www.bluetooth.com/Bluetooth/Learn/Works/
It states "During typical operation, a physical radio channel is shared by a group of devices that are synchronized to a common clock and frequency hopping pattern. One device provides the synchronization reference and is known as the master. All other devices are known as slaves. A group of devices synchronized in this fashion form a piconet"
So there you go |
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kartracer Frequent Visitor
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Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2006 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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kartracer wrote: | , but have not got yet around to trying the latter combination with TT Mobile 5, | After writing this I got curious, so I just tried TTM5 on the N70 with TT II Receiver and a Motorola H500 handsfree headset and the combination works fine. _________________ Kam |
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Adek Regular Visitor
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Posted: Mon Jan 09, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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Looks like I'm a bit out of date with bluetooth then.
So if I understand right, with the old bluetooth you had a pair of devices but with the newer bluetooth technology (BT1.2?) you can have several devices connected to a 'master' all active at the same time. Fro what I see that is up to 7 devices in total ?
OK that looks far more useful then, however, I'm sure all the bluetooth stuff i have (old motorola phone, headset, PC USB adapter) are all old school.
Does anyone know if you can use a newer device as the master and older ones as a slave, I would guess not but could be interesting. _________________ .......
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