ebay 7 inch gps

Submitted: Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 21:29

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hi all any one got one of these

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250529183305&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

if so how does it perform? thanks

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Reply By: MartyB - Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:01

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:01

I have one and am happy with it. I have two SD cards, one has the standard navagator software and the second card has Oziexplorer loaded. They are good value for the price especially with the ability to run Oziexplorer.. Only real complaint is the screen is hard to read if the sun shines on it. I am considering tinting my car windows to help cut down the glare on the screen.
One thing though, I am on my second one, I dropped the first one and smashed the screen, it is s bit fragile because it is such a big screen, so be careful not to drop it.
Have a look at this link to see how to run Ozi on it.link

from Marty.

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Follow Up By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:29

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:29

I had the same problem with my PDA.
Cut a bit of black plastic about 30mm wide and mounted it around the PDA screen on three sides. A lot easier to see the screen.

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Follow Up By: signman - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:35

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:35

Had the same prob with our Mio..made up a 'visor'by cutting up a ice-cream container and a bit of duct tape. Works fine...and looks OK.

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Reply By: Crackles - Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:43

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 22:43

The down side to that particular model is it only comes with a 2GB card up to a maximum of 4GB. That may not be enough to fit all your maps on if you install Oziexplorer. There has been deals of an 8GB card to a max of 32 for the same money. Mine which is very similar has a poor quality holder, the Bluetooth phone is a little hard to hear & there can be some slight feedback through the stereo when using the MP3, otherwise the map resolution is pretty good & IGO navigator excellent :-)
Cheers Craig..........

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Follow Up By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:04

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:04

I run my GPS PDA off a 2gb SD card with Oziexplorer.
I have eastern Oz (excluding WA & Tas) on one SD card, and one SD for the rest.
Run the full 1:250k maps (1:5m, 1:1m, 1:250k) and full Hema maps off 2gb SD for eastern Oz.

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Reply By: KennyBWilson - Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 23:36

Thursday, Nov 12, 2009 at 23:36

They are a good unit, I set one up for a friend of mine a few weeks back , he loves it mine is the older type and max 2Gb SD card on it

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Follow Up By: Spitster - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 22:59

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 22:59

Hi Kenny,
Sorry about the late response, but I was searching on here for some answers and come up with this Thread. I am in the process of setting one of these up and have downloaded Oziexplorer CE etc and have running and opening maps, which I have included in the map file. However, when it opens the map up, a message appears " ECWDII could not be found or loaded". It then freezes. I have looked at the Ozi Site for answers, but to no avail. Any clues??

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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:48

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:48

I am looking at these too.

Most seem to run Win CE 5.0, which I run on my PDA GPS.

It seems you can get a similar model with win CE 5 enabled, and not locked out.
Have you had a look at those/

example - ebay model with win ce 5

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Follow Up By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:51

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:51

Re SD cards.

I think Win CE 5 only supports up to 2/4gb.
Win CE6 supports larger SD cards.
What I have found researching my PDA with Win CE5.
My PDA is an earlier version, 2gb limit, later CE5 supports 4gb.

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Reply By: Member - Brad S (SA) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:42

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 10:42

I have an earlier model and it runs well. It is my reversing camera, GPS, FM MP# player and bluetooth phone all at once, easy as...to set up.

Look on eBay for a sunshade/hood...usually about $10 to $15.

An acquaintance has a similiar GPS to that adversed an asked the vendor if it took the SDHC cards...it does and he runs a 32gig card. Standard SD cards only go to 4gig. SDHC cards go out to 32gig, even the micro cards are out to 32gig now. So if ti runs SDHC it should be able to access as big a card as you can get.

Good luck!

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Reply By: Member - Tony V (NSW) - Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:30

Friday, Nov 13, 2009 at 12:30

If you want to make a saving on cheap GPS's 4.3 - 5.0 and 7" its worth a look at
gealextreme

They take Paypal which gives you security if there is a dispute.

Free delivery.

I have brough some Cree LED torches from them, reverisng camera and a few other things.

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