Toshiba PDA with bluetooth GPS Receiver

Submitted: Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 16:51

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Member - Mal J (NSW)

HI All
I have a toshiba pda that I'm hoping to link to a bluetooth gps receiver. Is this a good move and if it works what type of blue tooth receiver would do the job properly and would it sit on the dash under the windscreen.
Can I have your thoughts.

Regards Mal

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Reply By: Bonz (Vic) - Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 17:58

Thursday, Jul 12, 2007 at 17:58

Sure would, any type of BT GPS would do the trick, there is one for sale in the EO shop, say hello to Michael, who is Jackie Mk 2 and yes it should sit there happily

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Reply By: smort - Friday, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:55

Friday, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:55

Hi Mal

I have a hp with a bluetooth 32 channel gps - got it off ebay - works fine on my pda with tom tom in the city ozi maps a bit small on the pda (maybe I am getting old) and ozi on the laptop in the boondocks - where ever you get your gps suggest you get one with an external antenna - cable length should be 5 metres not less - cant plumb it through firewall otherwise.

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Reply By: grantr - Friday, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:00

Friday, Jul 13, 2007 at 10:00

I have a toshiba e800 pda with bluetooth but found that Tosiba use their own bluetooth system and you can find it wont work with certain software because it requires 3 com ports to communicate with the gps unit. The best solution is to get a cf gps with a sd card reader built in so that you don't loose the 2 card capacity.I'm using a Haicom unit and I'm very happy with it, It also has an external aerial connection which is very handy.

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