Best Bluetooth GPS device for C500?

[Guest derek_plant]

as the title suggests really, what bluetooth GPS device do ppl suggest for my C500 for TomTom please?

I lost my Tom Tom adapter you see.

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

The TomTom GPS (new unit) is hard to beat and they have been falling in price on ebay etc.

How much do you want to spend?

[Guest derek_plant]

The TomTom GPS (new unit) is hard to beat and they have been falling in price on ebay etc.

How much do you want to spend?

£40-50 really, how much should I be paying for one of the TomTom ones?

[Guest Jon_010]

Well i just bought a cheap bluetooth receiver off eBay, not a tomtom unit and it works a treat. No problems at all!

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Ebay have them for about £70 so it's abit out of your price range.

[Guest derek_plant]

Well i just bought a cheap bluetooth receiver off eBay, not a tomtom unit and it works a treat. No problems at all!

Which model was it Jon? any chance of a link at all please?

Cheers.

[Guest Jon_010]

Its called the BT77, just do a search for it and you'll find it easily. Either ebay just search for BT77 or google it. It's around £30 off ebay.

It looks like this:

It's only a 16 channel receiver but its never found me to be in a wrong place, I've had it for nearly a year now.

[Guest dave711]

Its called the BT77, just do a search for it and you'll find it easily. Either ebay just search for BT77 or google it. It's around £30 off ebay.

It looks like this:

It's only a 16 channel receiver but its never found me to be in a wrong place, I've had it for nearly a year now.

hopw does this work with a c550? do i need to install any other software on the phone?

what about maps?

[Guest Jon_010]

You pair the bluetooth gps to the phone, load up your favorite sat nav software (tomtom, destinator etc) and on you go.

As for software yes you'll need as above; tomtom,destinator etc any of which can be found doing a search on the internet. The maps usually come supplied with the software for your location.

[Guest dave711]

You pair the bluetooth gps to the phone, load up your favorite sat nav software (tomtom, destinator etc) and on you go.

As for software yes you'll need as above; tomtom,destinator etc any of which can be found doing a search on the internet. The maps usually come supplied with the software for your location.

sorry but not had this phone for long, how much is this software?

[Guest Jon_010]

Varies, just over £100 for the software and gps receiver. If you go on the link below it has the prices for the different options:

Tomtom

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

If you use TomTom (if you can find the 5.2 for sale now) you get the GPS unit as part of the package.

The cheaper GPS units are not as good and you do get what you pay for as the saying goes.

Just make sure you get a SIRF III chipset in the GPS.

[Guest Jon_010]

yeah true, you do get what you pay for I'll agree with you on that one! depends what your needs are. I only use it on the occasional long distance trip i do once in a blue moon so i went for the cheap and cheerful option.