# gps

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Monday, 26-Nov-2007 10:49:27

Hey,
I just purchased a bluetooth gps receiver. I had a look at load stone and installed it on my nokia 6682, from reading the docs it sounds like a pain in the ass but I guess I will see after trying it with a gps receiver. Anyone else using this/ Are there any other programs out there that work well either off the shelf and with a laptop and jaws or with talks and a nokia.
thanks

## Post 2 by Chris N (I just keep on posting!) on Monday, 26-Nov-2007 16:22:12

Loadstone isn't that bad after you study the documentation and either import some data or add a few points of interest.

## Post 3 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Monday, 26-Nov-2007 20:00:24

How likely are you to be able to get points of interest in every day places? (To import I mean.)
And on a related note, where's the cheapest place I can find bluetooth gps receivers?

## Post 4 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2007 9:12:03

I got mine from geeks.com
I don't know if it will be worth a damn or not, but will see when it comes in!

## Post 5 by Chris N (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2007 15:40:37

The loadstone site has data for the US and other countries. US street data is from some government project, and has been pretty accurate in my limited use. This will identify street intersections, and you can fill in the gaps as you come across other places. Wayfinder is about $100 and can identify specific businesses or addresses, but isn't so helpful for figuring out exactly what's around you. Wayfinder Access is supposed to do both things but it's something like $400 so I haven't tried it.

## Post 6 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2007 18:47:25

I really would like to find someone that's used the wayfinder access. In concept it sounds nice, but I wonder how well it works in practice.

## Post 7 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Tuesday, 27-Nov-2007 21:14:38

I think someone did a review on it. on the blind cool tech page. you may have to dig for it, but I've listened to it before.

## Post 8 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Wednesday, 05-Dec-2007 10:38:58

word to the wize, if you see any gps blue tooth receivers for real cheap. like the pbt 111 for 20 bucks never mind it. it sucks. It seems as if I haven't found anyone yet who's gotten this to work with a nokia.

## Post 9 by skpoet711 (Zone BBS is my Life) on Wednesday, 05-Dec-2007 16:32:21

I'm more interested in built in gps systems in a phone. Like the n95. However, I don't have the $600 to plunk down and get that model quite. If anyone has experience on talks and the n95 and whether or not it will allow the integrated gps to be accessible for the total, pleae post.
At the moment, I settled on the n75 which is great with talks.
I am staying away from bluetooth receivers with the phone as it tends to drain the phone something fierce. And I won't even touch on the "failNote".
I just rather would carry one device with me, instead of 2+.

## Post 10 by Texas Shawn (The cute, cuddley, little furr ball) on Monday, 10-Dec-2007 10:59:20

Hi,
The second bt gps receiver I bought is about the size of a zippo lighter. I really lucked out cause it uses the same battery as my Nokia 6682 so what I do is charge my phone then switch batteries and charge again. I used the hell out of both gps and phone yesterday and never got lower than 5 bars on the phone and when I switched batterys to charge the gps had 4 bars left. I know that blue tooth used to drain the battery on my 6620 but it doesn't seem to on a newer phone.
I really have to say this load stone is really cool! there is a bit of a learning curv but once you get past that, it works really well. I am sure the trekker and all the others work well but for my needs I am happy just using this and as a free alternative it does well!

## Post 11 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Monday, 10-Dec-2007 23:28:25

One thing about the phones with a built in GPS, from what everyone I've talked to that's tried using them has told me, they're not nearly as accurate.