wshelley46060 Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 Are there any handheld gps receivers that have bluetooth? I'm looking for a full featured handheld that also has bluetooth. Quote Link to comment
+Criminal Posted March 3, 2004 Share Posted March 3, 2004 I saw one of these in the BX yesterday, about $250 I think. Contact: Melody Chalaban Public Relations Manager (310) 604-2347 melodych@belkin.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Use your PDA or Laptop as a Wireless Navigation System The Bluetooth ™ GPS Receiver from Belkin includes navigation software for a more complete package (Compton, CA) – December 4, 2003 – Travelers in unfamiliar areas can now find their way easily with the Bluetooth GPS Receiver from Belkin. Designed to connect quickly to your PDA or laptop, the Belkin Receiver displays your position in real time. It shows your progress as you travel, illustrating your current location in relation to your destination. The Receiver will begin shipping in North America on January 15, 2004. Bluetooth GPS Receiver (F8T051) The Bluetooth GPS Receiver from Belkin offers advanced features, unique among competing GPS receivers—at the more affordable price. Belkin includes navigation software for which other GPS device manufacturers require a separate purchase. Designed to indicate your speed, direction of travel, elevation, latitude, and longitude within 10 meters, the Belkin Receiver software covers any city in the US and Canada. It quickly identifies your current position as well as a destination or point of interest. Routes can be calculated and viewed immediately, and automated voice prompts instruct when and where to turn. The Receiver also features a high-sensitivity mode, which allows it to function in previously inaccessible environments, such as severe urban canyons, parking garages, through dense foliage, multilevel freeways and, in many cases, indoors. Another differing benefit of the Belkin Receiver is its support of both Pocket PC and Windows ® devices. Special Features of the Belkin Software • Lets you choose destinations by address, intersection, point of interest, or contacts • Offers dynamic reroute and detour options • Provides 4 types of map views • Alerts user to speed level • Records your trip for future playback Benefits • Includes a CLA charger (that is compatible with Dell ® Axim ™ and Compaq ® iPAQ ™ PDAs), USB charger, and DC charger • Uses removable, rechargeable lithium-polymer battery to provide up to 10 hours of continuous operation • Tracks position using data from 12 satellites, with an accuracy of up to 10m Belkin Corporation, the global leader in connectivity solutions, offers a range of innovations for the computer, electronics, and mobile consumer. With a diverse and far-reaching product mix consisting of home and enterprise networking, KVM (keyboard/video/mouse) and peripheral sharing, power protection and cabling, as well as USB and FireWire ® devices, Belkin extends its reach also to Bluetooth , cellular, PDA, iPod ™ , and other solutions for mobile computing. Belkin products are available through www.belkin.com as well as through a network of major distributors, resellers, and superstores. Bluetooth is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and is used by Belkin Corporation under license. ### Quote Link to comment
+leatherman Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 This is the only stand alone GPSr that I have seen with bluetooth. You can get it for the Palm too. Quote Link to comment
+TresOkies Posted March 4, 2004 Share Posted March 4, 2004 A buddy bought the EMTAC bluetooth unit with the/Mapopolis bundle in December. He has been very happy with it so far. He uses it with the Tungsten T. His comments... -------- We decided to go for the Palm-based one from EMTAC (http://www.transplantcomputing.com/btgpspalm.html). The price and the non-obtrusiveness were the main factors. It has voice prompts so you don't need to look at the unit much. Notes: * It gets great reception. Even with it in the console rather than on the dashboard we see 7-8 satellites. We were getting 4 with it sitting on the dining room table in my house. It starts up really quickly too. * The Bluetooth link rocks. It's really nice to have no connection to the palm. We even slipped it into our pocket and walked from our car to our destination just by following the map on our Palm. * The voice prompts are nice. You get a British voice saying "in 300 yards, turn right". "Now, turn right". Quite nice. Can't hear it over the radio too well however. * The routes it chose were decent. I still need to tweak the settings because it seemed to like Lamar over Mopac and Braker over 183 for some reason. [ed. This was in Austin, TX] * The memory usage isn't bad. We got a 128 meg SD card to hold the maps. We're still playing with how to get the best RAM usage. It needs about 4 megs free memory on your PALM in order to work since it loads the current map into RAM. * The UI for the software that comes with it is decent but certainly not as good as the Magellan unit. Lots of little dials and switches. I don't expect these things to catch on with non-techies for a couple of years because they still are too hard to use. Some annoyances: You can't scroll around the map when the GPS is active because it constantly auto-positions you (this seems like a common map software "feature"), it reconnects over bluetooth when you start up the app but not when you come out of sleep, it has a pretty cool ability to auto-load maps and do routing over noncontiguous maps but it needs a better UI to set it all up, browsing for attractions is nice but it's not obvious how to do it until you play with it a bit. * One big problem: No Starbucks in the list of attractions/restaurants. What were they thinking? Quote Link to comment
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