need a GPS reciever

dapex · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi, just got a Nokia E50 and tomtom 6 mobile, now I need a decent bluetooth GPS reciever. I have been told ot get a SIRFIII by a friend but looking on ebay there seems to be a new range of 42 ch TTFF recievers such as this one

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any thoughts on whats best to get, this will live in my car and so as long as it has a car charger and ideally a USB charger then i will b ehappy

cheers

Darren · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:27 pm Post subject:

I've no idea who makes that GPS but the 42 Channel stuff is just marketing BS. They do not say what GPS Chipset it uses so I would avoid it.

Good models are GlobalSat, Holux, ZyCast, Leadtek to name a few. The key factor is SiRFStarIII Chipset. There are other good ones appearing such as MTK and GlobalLocate but SirFStarIII is still the best known and works well.
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dapex · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 03, 2005 Posts: 5

Cheers for the reply, any idea what a RFMD chipset is??

Darren · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

RFMD are a major cellphone chipset supplier but they also have some minor GPS involvement. www.rfmd.com

General opinion is they are not great with low sensitivity, issues with performance in pedestrian mode etc.
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