[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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