Secure Digital GPS Device available

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With all of the issues regarding getting XDA II/Bluetooth/GPS to work together, I have found a site in the US that supplies a Pocket GPS device in SD form (SDIO only, so XDA II NOT XDA).

http://www.pharosgps.com/products/sd...able/PSD80.htm

What I don't know is if this is used in an XDA 11 (Obviously using the SD slot) whether enough memory is available to run something like Tom Tom Navigator 2. Does anyone know? Or if not, is it possible to increase the XDA 11 Internal memory? I guess one big benefit is NO cables in the car and true portability as a Handheld GPS device. Any comments/advice or recommendations appreciated. Steve

TomTom can be configured with maps that use 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and 96MB (which gives you the whole UK). 64MB takes in all of England up as far as Liverpool and beyond, so if you are based in Southern England, you should be OK with that.
So yes, you should be able to use an SD based GPS, but you won't be able to fit too much other stuff on your XDA at the same time.
Guess it depends how much GPSing you do...

Originally Posted by onepieceman

TomTom can be configured with maps that use 16MB, 32MB, 64MB and 96MB (which gives you the whole UK). 64MB takes in all of England up as far as Liverpool and beyond, so if you are based in Southern England, you should be OK with that.
So yes, you should be able to use an SD based GPS, but you won't be able to fit too much other stuff on your XDA at the same time.
Guess it depends how much GPSing you do...

Thank you for your comments. I guess the ideal is to use GPS via Bluetooth, which was my original plan, thus using the SD slot for SD memory TT maps and other required data, as I like to hold quite a lot of information in my XDA II but there seems to be problems with TT2 GPS Bluetooth working with the XDA II. Also I have worries that I will get BTooth GPS TT2 working in conjunction with a BT Hands free car kit like the CK3000 and the XDA II at the same time? Steve

Using Bluetooth is what I do, and if you download the patch from Towa, it works just fine. I have a GPSmart which I use in the car most of the time, but it's nice to know that if I need to navigate by foot, I can do that too...

I use sd gps, its very good if you use gps on more that one vehicle, eg I use it on my car and motorbike, also very usefull for walking or cycling as it is a very compact gps unit. I got mine off ebay, and got 2 free gifts, one that converts the sd gps to pcmia, which is useful and the other gift is an external ariel, like you said though, maps use a lot of space. One other thing though, loading from internal memory is a hell of a lot quicker than sd card