Guest vegasbaby Posted March 14, 2005 Report Posted March 14, 2005 Have had my MDA compact for two weeks now and I'm wanting to try gps on it. From what I've read (and I know very little about gps) there are three choices for the receiver: USB, bluetooth and sd card. I don't want to add wear and tear to the sd slot, it's bad enough that I need to swap it for the wireless card, and the bluetooth option seems to be too battery intensive for long journeys. USB seems ideal, as a lot of the receivers will power and charge your pda at the same time. My only problem is that any mention of gps with the Imate Jam I can find, uses bluetooth. Are usb receivers compatible? Or is the miniusb port on the jam just passive for charging and syncing?
Guest thereaperman Posted March 15, 2005 Report Posted March 15, 2005 from what I know you can not use the usb for a gps unit as it does not support it, the only way to use gps is with bluetooth, but if its in your cay you can charge your unit with a lead any way so it should not drain the battery that much?
Guest fallwood Posted March 15, 2005 Report Posted March 15, 2005 I use the tomtom bluetooth gps receiver with mine (previously used with c500) and it works perfectly, i just plug the mda car charger in for long journeys and my gps receiver is hard wired into the cars supply so it never runs flat. As far as i know most bluetoogh gps receivers work with the mda, have a look on ebay u can pick one up for about 70 quid.
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