SatNav with Vario II

[Guest drew_viii]

Hi, i have a very curious question bout my new mda vario II from t mobile, currently i just bought a new tomtom software cd only... but thing here is i didnt know i need some gps receiver in order for this thing to work... are there any options rather than a bluetooth gps receiver? like micro sd reciever or something? why did i ask this stupid question, well, tmobile also offer a vario II with CO pilot system, same as tomtom satnav i guess... and does this mean when i buy the one with CO pilot does it have like built in GPS receiver? or it comes with a seperate ones? thank you!

[Guest Confucious]

You need a BT receiver - AFAIK there is no alternative. CoPilot comes with a BT receiver (as does TomTom if you buy the fill package.

A decent receiver can be bought off eBay for about £30 so long as it's SiRF III you'll be OK

HTH

[Guest Marzbar]

You need a BT receiver - AFAIK there is no alternative. CoPilot comes with a BT receiver (as does TomTom if you buy the fill package.

A decent receiver can be bought off eBay for about £30 so long as it's SiRF III you'll be OK

HTH

There's a few people on ebay selling a no-name rip-off brand called Holox (rip-off because Holux is a recognised and well-thought-of brand) which are ridiculously cheap and work very very well - you can expect to get one for about £30 delivered and it is the absolute DBs - it works through the UV filter on the windscreen on my wife's Clio, from inside the glove box, indoors in a multi-storey building, just about anywhere, starts up from cold to first-fix in seconds too.

It has a 13 (?) hour Li-ion battery chargeable with a standard USB power cable (they supply a UK plug adaptor with it) and was my favourite bargain buy from last year.