any bt GPS will work - i got mine from ebay for $160 and it came with an free antenna

here'a a great link for info

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/showthread.p...light=bluetooth

i bought the same system as sireousrex


also walkabt has an excellent site to help set up your pda to play mp3s and nav

 

Ok....now I am MASSIVELY confused.



I take it this is NOT the actual antenna, but rather a blue tooth transmitter....I have to buy an antenna as well???

Next.....the Dell I wanted (624mhz)...has blue tooth....so with a blue tooth antenna, and a 512 mb card....will this be a good system???

I looked at other PDAs....

Palm Tugsten, Clie, HP, but the dell *seems* the best....CNET also rated it editors choice.

Again, appreciate all the help!

 

yes that's a GPS receiver and you could still use a an extra antenna that plugs into the gps receiver (very small) - then from the GPS receiver the signal is sent via blue tooth to your PDA (ie no wires from gps unit to pda

just make sure what ever pda you get you are running windows 2003 or better

then you'll need some mapping software

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bass
yes that's

 

nope you don't need anything else to make the system work- the benift to having an extrenal antenna is that you'll get a stronger signal feed to the gps unit

check your pm

 

also if your head unit has an aux - you can run a wire from your PDA and feed the sound though your head unit

 

Pm responded to......

I will plug it into my alpine hu.

So you are saying that the bluetooth antennas are NOT enough for signal stregth?

I refuse to put an antenna on the body of my car (I put my XM antenna on the inside of the trunk lid)...so the only way I am willing to go is an in-car setup.

If I point the antenna INSIDE the car, looking straight out of the windshield, will I have issues with GPS sat. reception???
Thanks for your help buddy......

P.S....

I know computers, I know car audio....and yet this confuses the hell out of me....there just is SO much stuff available that I had no idea.....its mindboggling.

Also.....why is everyone saying Mapopolis?? Just curious....
The other software(s)....*seem* to offer more, and have a better GUI (looks....graphics user interface) such as 3D, birdseye...etc.......

Examples include...
*Destinator
*Tom Tom Navigator
*Routis
and more!

 

Internal antenna will work. My CF GPS card has an external antenna plug, but I don't use it, just another wire. The X30 624Mhz has both blue tooth and wi-fi, you are fine with that one if you go with a blue tooth GPS unit.

X5 is Dell's other model. Scroll down in the site you were looking at on Dell and it's there. It's last year's model. I have the X5 Advanced (400Mhz, 64MB RAM) - it has CF and SD slots - slightly larger unit - less money.

Mapopolis works well and it is FAST...Tom Tom has major bugs - posted on other sites, Routis has issues. Mapopolis is almost consistently rated number 1 on Pocket PC sites. Also, you mention they offer more, such as bird's eye view. That's a resource hog on a Pocket PC, making it slower to reroute. Plus, are you going to look at the screen or listen to the directions when needed? I look at the screen only when I go into curves to gauge them.

From what I have seen, those who rate the software use Mapopolis.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by walkabt
Internal antenna will work.

 

It is easy to use, easy to program and adjust, fast, has more features (except for the view) and hasn't crashed on me.

Try something different and let me know. I tried a couple and this one worked the best, has the ABSOLUTE best customer support - same day or next day responses to emails and the programmers will make updates quickly. With other programs, if you want something new you wait for a year and you pay for the upgrade. An example is that I wanted the route log and the ability to download it to my PC in a format I could pull into some other software. one month later, I get an email saying try out the latest version. It is easy to program the routes and route through points. If you do club drives you don't want their A-B choices, because they always skip the curvy roads. Mapopolis let's you program route through points easily.

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