SDIO GPS Receiver or Bluetooth GPS Receiver for iPAQ H4150

jschrauwen · Occasional Visitor Joined: Aug 11, 2009 Posts: 2

I posted this in the new members section but think it may get a better response here.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:16 am Post subject:

Have a search for the qstarz or iBlue units these are decent bluetooth receivers with incredible battery life, you get over 30 hours use from a single charge of the battery. Another one is the Holux 240 a nice small bluetooth receiver.
I wouldn't be too keen on getting an SDIO unit as there have been probelms getting these to work with some PDA devices in the past and if it doesn't work when you get it you won't get new driver software for the PDA very easily if at all.

Any Bluetooth GPS receiver will work with the TomTom application as long as it outputs data in the NMEA format (which they all do), even that Amod bargain bucket priced unit will work with the hardware/ software you own - Mike

robertn · Frequent Visitor Joined: Feb 06, 2005 Posts: 564

As Mike said, stay away from SDIO recievers. I worked for a company that used various GPS devices and we always had trouble with PDA's emmitting too much EMF noise preventing the GPS reciever getting a signal, and that was after getting the driver problem solved. When they worked, it was great. When the didn't, well, it was like having a teeth extracted, slowly, one by one......

This was a few years ago, and PDAs are better and GPS recievers are significantly advanced compared to then, but the SDIO GPS's are, AFAIK, old technology.

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