My Awesome Bluetooth GPS

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I was in the market for a gps. I enabled the GPS on the Hermes, but since it has no antenna, it is pretty much useless. I decided to buy the cheapest bluetooth gps I could find.

I settled on this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16858702001

It is pretty cheap and very, very small. I turned it on, synced it with my phone running WM6, and boom! It worked great.

If you need a gps and dont want to spend a boat load, the iTrek one is for you.

Looks a lot like the Holux GPSlim 236 that I have.

Holux!!!!!

Holux GR 239 is also a keeper. This one is a tiny receiver that plugs into the cigarette lighter, my car has several accy plugs so I leave this Bluetooth GPS always plugged in. I'm no longer playing with batteries and tiny receivers bouncing around the car.

The Holux GPSslim is also great for portable use as well. My 8525 works great with these.

Till Kaiser begins shipping!

Originally Posted by DeniaL

Looks a lot like the Holux GPSlim 236 that I have.

It is! I have the same one that you do. They are like our phones.....multi-branded but the same inside! It really is a nice little unit.
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Are these device compatible with all map software?
do they come with maps?

If you are looking for a cheap yet powerfull GPS gps receiver fo your hermes try to find the Qstarz BT 818. I paid just under 50GBP for the device delivered. I believe you can pick it up in the US delivered for under 100 USD.It is a 32 channel device and tomtom picks up 8 useful sats in the middle of my house or office (middle of a 1 story building)!!!! It will even pick up 10+ sats in my glovebox!!! even better still it has a 32hr navigating battery life!!!! I cannot rave about this enough. Only problem is that there is only 1 seller in the UK and they are exclusive to ebay. But even still they are good mine arrived in 2 days.

My Delorme is okay

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I just bought a delorme bt-20. It is pretty good and the signal seems to be okay. The only gripe I have about it is the software that comes with it. It is crap! I've tried TomTom, Live Search and Google Maps and they all seem to work great. However, Google Maps has some bugs in it that makes it kind of quirky.

The nice thing about the bt-20 is that it also comes with a mini-usb port that you can use as the connection to your laptop, if you really wanted to.

so , what is the best and what is the cheapest
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for cingular 8525
thanks

I'd say any with Sirf3 chips are going to be good, I mentioned the Holux GR239 cause it was $60 on Ebay, doesn't need batteries, and on the road is getting 10 to 12 sattellites! In my car it's plugged into a 12V accy plug in the back seat so I don't even see it, but it's always ready.

Whenever I open up my nav app (iGuidance), it's up and running like it was built into my 8525. I have other bluetooth GPS, GPSlim and Socket Bluetooth for portable battery use, but this plug-in is very good and cheap.