S60 Phones and Bluetooth GPS

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Thu Feb 08, 2007 12:30 am

Just wondering if anyone here has a S60 (or similar) phone and uses it in conjuction with a bluetooth GPS receiver?

If so, how do you find it? Does the screen update quickly/smoothly enough, or is it slow, jerky and shit?

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:20 am

Woohooo!!!! GPS on my phone. YAY.

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:46 pm

From what i've heard the phone GPS systems aren't that shit hot and you're actually far better off with a genuine GPS, you're welcome to enlighten us all with your experinces of course Jase

nahima · Post by **nahima** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:24 pm

I use my old i-mate (after upgrading) as my GPS - works fine

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:41 am

mick_dundee wrote:From what i've heard the phone GPS systems aren't that shit hot and you're actually far better off with a genuine GPS, you're welcome to enlighten us all with your experinces of course Jase

Well, I was convinced to buy a GPS receiver for my phone by a mate, who has a new Nokia N73 with a GPS receiver and TomTom software.

If you couldn't see the number keys at the bottom of the handset, you wouldn't know that it wasn't a proper GPS unit. Works a treat and has all the functions of a standalone GPS unit.

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:04 am

What phone you got Jase? Realise it's an S60 but Nokia, Motorola etc??

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:28 am

mick_dundee wrote:From what i've heard the phone GPS systems aren't that shit hot and you're actually far better off with a genuine GPS, you're welcome to enlighten us all with your experinces of course Jase

The reason why people say that is because the screen on "stand alone" GPS systems are much bigger.......... but these days if you have a Dopod or blackberry the screens are fairly big anyway... In the end, how "good" a gps is comes down to how good the software and the maps are....

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:00 am

I have a Nokia 3230, it's getting a bit long in the tooth but still does the job. I'll be getting a Nokia N73 next month.

The bluetooth receiver cost me 90 bucks delivered from Taiwan. I can put the receiver in the glove box and it still connects to the sattelites without a problem.

I put the phone on the dash (a bit of velcro on the back of the phone, a bit on the dash to one side) and I can see the screen and the directions with no problems. Besides it has voice instructions aswell.

I plan on getting a clear case that I will velcro to the tank of the work bike. That way, if I need to navigate somewhere, I can easily see where I need to go.

If you go off the pre-determined route, the phone recalculates a new route faster than my mates Garmin system.

All up, I'm ultra-impressed. $90 for a GPS system!!

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:04 am

So the maps and software all came with the receiver then?

aardvark · Post by **aardvark** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:44 pm

mick_dundee wrote:So the maps and software all came with the receiver then?

Not quite.

mick_dundee · Post by **mick_dundee** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:46 pm

So you ahem aquired sftware from the internet then?