[gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?

Hi,

This is the thing that is making me concerned.  I am using the Hollux 1200, and 
I have 10 satellites with 12-ft accuracy and I'm still about a block or more 
off.

Can you do anything with latitude/longitude or settings in the range or 
anything like that?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Brett 
  To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 7:53 PM
  Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?


  Hi Amy,

  Are you using the internal GPS on the device, or an external one. External 
ones should give greater accuracy. Some of the internal ones are quite good, 
but it will depend on the phone and at walking speeds they often aren't as 
accurate. If your not sure of your results, press 0 to check on the amount of 
satellites Mgeo is tracking and it will also give you an estimated accuracy 
value.

  Hope this helps,
  Brett.

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Amy Murillo-Hicks 
    To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:12 AM
    Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?


    Hello,

     

    I've just started with my trial version of Mobile Geo with the to mobile 
dash, and have a couple of questions.

     

      1.. Are any of you using the dash, and are you able to use both the 
external Bluetooth GPS and Bluetooth headset together? 
      2..   More importantly, I live on a residential street with houses spaced 
a decent distance apart.  As I stand out in front of my house, the GPS has me 
plotted at an address about a block and a half away from my actual address.  
When using a route home, I was told, during a pedestrian route  to turn on a 
street a block my actual block, and at another time, during a vehicle route, I 
was told to turn right across a busy intersecting street rather than left on to 
the correct street.  Both times the same address was entered as the 
destination.  Is there a way of adjusting settings to fix this, or does this 
sound like a satellite or mapping problem?
     

    Thanks for any advice,

     

    Amy

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Renee M Zelickson 
      To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 4:41 PM
      Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?


      I am hoping Sendero will come out with a seperate divice for gps.  I'd 
rather not use a cell phone with it, because I feel it would use to much 
battery power and I would rather have my phone of r phone calls . 


      Renee


      On May 25, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Brett wrote:


        Hi,

        In all cases, an external GPS receiver will do better than an internal 
one, although some internal ones are pretty good. How well MGeo runs on a 
smartphone or pocket PC will depend on the amount of ram and rom the device has 
and the processor speed. I'm not sure what the specs of the Ipaq were, so don't 
know if that was the issue. I also can't give a personal comparison of MGeo 
compared to a Braille note, as I have never tried GPS on a Braille note.

        Cheers,
        Brett.

        ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Pettke" 
<cpettke169307@xxxxxxxxxxx>
        To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
        Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 8:19 AM
        Subject: [gps-talkusers] Re: How well does mobile geo work?



          I tried a trial version of Mobile Geo on my HP IPaq and found that I 
was

          less than impressed. My IPaq has a built-in GPS receiver and I have 
heard

          that if you pair the pocket PC (which is what the IPaq is) with an 
external

          receiver you get a better signal. I also found that the response to 
commands

          varied quite a bit. Sometimes it was very quick and other times 
Mobile Geo

          was slow to respond. I do use the Sendero's BrailleNote GPS and like 
it much

          more than I did Mobile Geo. Although it is not as portable as carrying

          around a smart phone or pocket PC. If you have access to both 
platforms (a

          BrailleNote and a Windows Mobile device) and don't mind carrying 
around the

          BrailleNote, I'd choose Sendero GPS for the BrailleNote. I also 
suspect that

          Mobile Geo's responsiveness is highly platform dependent. I believe 
most of

          my issues were because of the IPaq and not Mobile Geo.



          -----Original Message-----

          From: gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

          [mailto:gps-talkusers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Brinkman

          Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 1:36 PM

          To: gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

          Subject: [gps-talkusers] How well does mobile geo work?



          I'm thinking about getting either mobile geo or brailleNote GPS to 
replace

          my SenseNav, since GW have dropped the ball in regards to updates.  
I'm

          leaning towards mobile geo due to the portability and small size of a 
cell

          phone.  However I have several issues.



          1.  Battery life.  Using a bluetooth receiver plus things like WiFi 
must

          drain the phone's battery quickly.  What kinds of results have others 
had?



          2.  No braille display



          3.  Since Sendero is lisencing the product and not building it 
themselves,

          it could suffer from the same lack of updates as SenseNav.

          However I understand that the features of Sendero GPS version 5 are

          available for mobile geo, whereas SenseNav hasn't been updated in 
well over

          a year.



          Thoughts and suggestions would be apreciated.



          Thanks in advance.



          Eric











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