How much did you pay for your GPS Mouse?

[Guest Pondrew]

Now that I've got Mapopolis running I'm trying to decide which GPS mouse to buy for use with my E200 and wanted to check how much you all have been paying for your equipment and what your thoughts are?

I'm thinking of going for the Fortuna Bluetooth Clip-On GPS mouse but would be interested in the serial/XDA connector solutions others have come up with.

Just noticed this on Ebay but put off by the postage and packing charges (still, the price is good at the mo... just £36 with 20hours to go).

[Guest mcwarre]

gcheung on eBay always seems to offer good deals until you see his p&p; the minimum he normally charges is £7.50 which is vf steep for say an SD card!

[Guest Pondrew]

Yeah, and given I don't recognise the GPS mouse I don't think I'll be going for it.

[Guest PT-1]

How about this one http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...MEBWA%3AIT&rd=1 ?

I just tested my SPVE100 with a wired GPS Solution(Not the one mentioned above!!) and was really pleased. Just in the City(London) it lost it's Signal.

Cheers

PT-1

[Guest Pondrew]

Well, seems great value. Might be worth putting up with the serial connection if it saves about £100...

Your GPS was having trouble in central London? Is that a common problem with them? Assumed it was more resiliant then that...

[Guest Bro]

I paid £155 quid for mine.. Fortuna Bt clip on. No probs so far.. bought it on strength of the "you can remove and replace the battery when it gets fried" claim. It's really small, I reckon you could fit 18 of 'em in the box that you get it in, This is an advantage if you don't want to diplay £155's worth of flashing l.e.d's on your dashboard, Mine clips snugly onto the roof pillar of my white van and can't be seen from outside.

[Guest glynton]

GPS in general has trouble in big cities I find.. i have a Garmin Etrex Legend and Whilst walking around Oslo on holiday, it found it difficult to keep a lock on. But i knew this before i bought it, and i mainly use it for rural trekking. Considered buying a bluetooth GPS module but found it pointless if it needs a clear view of the sky (from the point of view of weatherproofness). My Etrex legend is great and i'm gonna wait for the Motorola MPX to come out so i can use the software i got with it (Memory Map) to transfer 3D maps and aerial photos to it and connect it to the Etrex Legend and get real time Topological Mapping.

[Guest Pondrew]

Cheers for the input people. I actually got my first Bluetooth USB dongle today (got the MSI Btoes PC2PC one) so that'll be occupying my attention for a while. Still haven't managed to get Activesync to work although the phone seems to connect to the PC.

I noticed that one of the Fortuna Clipon GPS went for less then a £100 on Ebay today so will probably shell out for that (assuming it turns out all clips can be bought so cheap).

[Guest yaya]

Will the Fortuna Bluetooth Clip-On work on a device with the OLD ROM? (no update applied)

[Guest Bro]

No, the update fixes the bt serial port, thus enabling a bt device to work with e200

[Guest yaya]

Thanks Bro you've been very helpful

I decided not to go with the update but surly want to use Mapopolis so... should I buy a serial connected GPS receiver?

Yaya

[Guest Bro]

Aye , that sounds like the best solution.. then you can use it both before and after updating rom. :D

[Guest pizdyetz77]

what the hell's a GPS Mouse?

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[Guest Will]

it's a mouse that can tell you it's position in a series of squeaks :D

Seriously.

It's a small unit that looks like a pc mouse, as it's a box with a wire (tail) that usually has a usb or ppc/phone connector attached. it can only be used with a pc/phone/pda. and combined with mapopolis on the smartphone can tell you where you are!

[Guest Pondrew]

:)