Jumbo Village Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Hi fellow cachers, I am thinking of selling my Legend and combining my GPS with my phone. I'm after a PDA phone with bluetooth (for the GPS bit!), that has decent software for road-mapping (with sounds "TURN LEFT", "TURN RIGHT" etc), and that can still put me in the right spot for my caches! Am I asking too much, or does someone have that very solution? Not too worried about price (within reason) as it's an all-in-one solution so I appreciate that it might cost a bit more... But hopefully a saving with a decent phone contract! Thanks Richard Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 (edited) I use an xda2 for my phone and geocaching and bought new on ebay for £279 but had to unlock it and found the unlock code on the net. Put tom tom on it and mem map and works well with the garmin etrex vista. You can buy the connecting cables from mem map also but will cost about £40 but may get on ebay cheaper. But you still have to use seperate gps,not sure about pda/gps/phone,not seen any of these yet,but there was an article i saw a while ago that there was someone in the uae developing one. Edited February 22, 2005 by davy boy Quote Link to comment
Jumbo Village Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 (edited) Sounds promising. When you say you had to unlock it, does that mean you're on Pay-as-you-go? That would suit me just fine! Also, you say you're still connected to the E-Trex, is the XDA bluetooth? Edited February 22, 2005 by Jumbo Village Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Yes still connected to the etrex via cable but the xda is bluetooth just have not got around to it yet and it uses more battery power. When i bought it,it was supposed to be unlocked so found the unlock program on a xda phone forum and hey presto it worked!As for the contract i use orange and have also 3mb of download on my contract per month which i use in the field sometimes if i need to check a cache. There is also an xda2s out now with extra features from o2. Quote Link to comment
+Globetrotter.uk Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 I have been offered XDA1 is this any good for caching? what can I do with xda1? apart from phone the girlfriend Quote Link to comment
Jumbo Village Posted February 22, 2005 Author Share Posted February 22, 2005 Only just looked into it myself, but it looks as though you're OK for bluetooth, so a bluetooth GPS receiver would do the job (for Geocaching). You'll need the software for the roads though obviously! I see that you can pick up a XDA IIs for £190 with contract... Very tempting! Quote Link to comment
davester Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 Go for an iMate Jam. About £320 from http://mobilejoker.de/index2.html The site is in German but I understand that they do cash on delivery via UPS. Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 I used to use an xda1 till i broke the lcd and was not worth repairing!!! So if anyone wants any spares!!!! Quote Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted February 22, 2005 Share Posted February 22, 2005 The way these things are going, the whole lot would consist of. Phone, PDA, (for maps) camera, bluetooth GPS. But what about battery life? My ipaq 3870 has about 2-3 hours. Quote Link to comment
kiteflyer Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I use an XDA 2 as well. It is wired to my Legend in the field and a Halcom in the car. Tom tom and fugawi installed. Just sent of for a Wifi card to do some of the wire-less caches. It has bluetooth for handsfree and data transfers. In my very bias opinion it can't be beaten! Gary Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Just bought an XDA IIs (with slide out keyboard) for £179.99 on contract with O2. Still getting used to it at the moment before I invest in a Bluetooth GPS unit but I can say the XDA IIs (also Orange M2000 not out yet and the iMate2000) is a great unit. Quote Link to comment
Jumbo Village Posted February 23, 2005 Author Share Posted February 23, 2005 Sounds like this is what I'll be getting then. I've seen some e-bay XDA IIs 's for about £250, which is tempting, because I have Pay-as-you-go, and I really don't want to change my number again! Ho-hum. All this gadget talk, and I still have to convince the wife! Quote Link to comment
+The Hokesters Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I use an XDA 2 as well.[snip] It has bluetooth for handsfree and data transfers. Have you managed to get handsfree dialling working with a bluetooth headset? I am getting nowhere with technical support at the moment and the Fonix voicedialling software that comes with the phone doesn't support wireless headsets Quote Link to comment
carpet123 Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Do gps pda's perform as well as and have as good reception as standard GPSr handsets? carpet123 Quote Link to comment
+John Stead Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I have not yet tried a PDA with GPS built in but did use a Jornada 928 with phone built in. I found it too inconvenient to use as a phone and reverted to separate phone and PDA (Ipaq 2210) both with bluetooth. Now I use the bluetooth with a Fortuna Clip-on GPSr which has two separate receivers, one high sensitivity and one low battery consumption. I find the latter is more responsive than my Garmin 60cs. I can with this run Memory Map, TomTom or GPSDash which has recently been upgraded and which I look forward to using in the field as it is beginning to look rather good. Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 The pda/gps have a good signal in the car as long as you have not got an athermic windscreen as i have on my 307,this is why i use a garmin which sits nicely on the quater light window. Quote Link to comment
+davy boy Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Have a look at these also,are supposed to be good if you have two card slots,one for sd and one for cf cards to put the maps on!! http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...ssPageName=WDVW Quote Link to comment
kiteflyer Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 I have a cheap hands free ear-piece that will not do voice dialing so I have no idea about how to make that work sorry. Quote Link to comment
davester Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 Sounds like this is what I'll be getting then. I've seen some e-bay XDA IIs 's for about £250, which is tempting, because I have Pay-as-you-go, and I really don't want to change my number again! Ho-hum. All this gadget talk, and I still have to convince the wife! Going back to what I said before about the iMate Jam. This is actually branded the MDA compact in the UK and is a small version of the XDAII. It's about the same size as a Sony Ericsson T610. You can actually get it free on contract from http://www.ukphoneshop.com/860_T-Mobile_Pa...%20Compact.html The cheapest would work out at £240. Bargain. Get it unlocked (unless you use T-Mobile PAYG) and chuck your PAYG sim card in instead. You could still use the free minutes of course. Quote Link to comment
+McDeHack Posted February 23, 2005 Share Posted February 23, 2005 (edited) What I said on an early post that sounded as a wish list, Is real. A pda with Tomtom Nav, Phone, camera, Slots for cards. Bluetooth or cable attached GPS. Its a XA 02 ? well thats what my pal said that has one. ( I have seen it) I shall now go and search to find out more. This could be a 'must have' Got it the wrong way round. It is a 02 XDA2 Edited February 23, 2005 by McDehack Quote Link to comment
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