Best Value GPS Receiver - this one for $39.99?

[Guest aatari]

I'm looking for a good value (and well working) GPS receiver for my Vario. A friend of mine lent me his GPS receiver...cant remember the brand but it was the worlds smallest receiver...worked wll but it was let down by its battery life (not to mention the price).

I've found this for $42.50 inc postage.

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/8590.htm

Looks small and apparently uses nokia batteries meaning a spare would be cheap and easy to find.

Has anyone used this one before... yes i tried searching but the boards keep telling me to wait 20 secs due to flood control... my apologies if this has been discussed before... if it has, perhaps someone could send me the link.

Cheers.

aatari

[Guest TomaHawk]

ah your doller signs confused me. for $ 40 it looked chepest

but

there was a thread about one for

[Guest aatari]

yeah sorry dude.. i meant pounds. Damn american keyboard...

[Guest aatari]

oh well.. this looks good enough for me... the bt-77... people swear by them supposedly.

Cheapest place I could find was here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TOMTOM-BLUETOOTH-GPS...1QQcmdZViewItem

100% feedback on 2000 items aint bad.

Will post my experience with the device if anyone is interested.

- aatari

[Guest ultimate_fish]

I've got one of the cheapo mobilefun GPS receivers and it's worked fine for me. Not that many channels, but I've driven around rural parts of North Yorkshire and city centres without losing the signal.

[Guest aatari]

Well i gotta say.. for 40 quid it is excellent... it works great.... i highly recommend this el-cheapo (but quality) product.

[Guest TomaHawk]

what software you using with it?

hows the battery think i might get one.

[Guest ultimate_fish]

I'm using it with Tomtom navigator on my Vario with no trouble. The battery life seems fine, the unit also comes with a car charger and uses one of the Nokia batteries, so you could even have a fully charged spare battery on hand.