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Deluo bluetooth GPS now with Live search

Oct 4, 2007 bluetooth, gps navigation, software 1 Comment

DeluoGPS just launched a new product that brings Live Search for Windows Mobile and their wireless GPS device together. With Live Search users can access real-time ratings on nearby restaurants, movie show times, local weather and real-time traffic information. Combined with Deluo’s bluetooth GPS receiver your door-to-door driving directions are more ‘location aware’ and thus more useful.

There’s nothing else special about the hardware though, it includes a rechargeable Li-Ion battery which lasts about 6 hours, updates your position every second and measures 70 x 44 x 22.5 mm, and uses a SiRF Star III GPS receiver.

It is compatible with the following devices:

HTC

• Excalibur/Dash/S620/S720
• Magician/MDA Compact/XDA II mini/JAM
• Mogul/XV6800/P4000/Titan
• TyTN/8525/JasJam/Hermes
• Wing/Gerald/P4350
• Wizard/8125/8100/MDA/K-JAM/P4300
• P4550 Kaiser/ P6300 Panda

Palm

• Treo 700w/700wx
• Treo 750

HP

• iPAQ hw6920
• iPAQ hw6925
• iPAQ hw6915
• iPAQ hw6945

Samsung

• BlackJack/SGH-i607
• SCH-i830/IP-830w
• SGH-i718/SGH-i710

Motorola

• i930/i920
• Q/Q9h

Siemens

• SC66

We’re not sure how much it is going to cost yet but we expect it won’t be more than $100.

HP preparing new line of mobile devices with GPS

Aug 1, 2007 gps navigation, phones 8 Comments

After two years of silence, HP is about to reconsider their mobile series with a whole new line-up of Windows Mobile 6 devices. The iPAQ VoiceMessenger 514, made available only a couple weeks ago, has been the first representative of this new generation. 500 series will be made up of basic smartphones (only one for the moment) at a very affordable price and we’re happy to hear that a few other series will also include integrated GPS functionality.

The other series will be configured in the following way:

• 100 Series: the substitute of old the rz1710. Entry range PDA with no phone but at for a very low price
• 200 Series: PDA/PND (autonomous GPS) hybrids, replacing the range iPAQ rx57/59
• 300 Series: devices dedicated to business professionals and equipped with a VGA screen (replacing ancestral the iPAQ hx4700)
• 500 Series: medium range smartphones
• 600 Series: 3G PDA phones equipped with keyboard and integrated GPS. An alternative to series 900, with a different design.
• 900 Series: the true successor of the HP iPAQ hw6915. Expected to have powerful features specially designed for business users such as keyboard, Wi-Fi, GPS…

The first devices from the new HP line up should be announced by September, and be ready for the market at the end of the year… via

HTC P3300 review

Oct 17, 2006 gps navigation, reviews 1 Comment

The French site GPSandCo did a very extended review of the HTC P3300 and we translated it for you.

Introduction

HTC is the number one on the market of PDAphones with its own Qtek brand similar to great names like HP and Orange in particular.

HTC had already launched a PDA with integrated receiver GPS, G100 but which was not marketed officially in France and which very was not successful in terms of sensitivity GPS. And HTC also manufactures PDAphones GPS iPAQ hw6515 and hw6915 for HP.

With P3300, HTC launches its first highly anticipated PDAphone GPS under its own brand.

Let us see what this P3300 is worth, especially on the level of sensitivity GPS and its performances for which it is awaited the turning, Qtek 9100 having a similar processor having disappointed on the level of its performances, even if it met success.

Design features

• Processor: TI OMAP 850 at 201 MHz
• Display: Touch screen TFT LCD 2.8 inches with 65536 colors and 320×240 pixels resolution (QVGA)
• Cellular module: Quad-bands GSM (850/900/1800/1900 MHz), GPRS and EDGE
• GPS: Integrated GPS SiRF III instantSiRFfix (A-GPS) receiver
• External antenna port: Yes
• ROM memory: 128 MB
• RAM memory: 64 MB
• USB:1.1
• Infra-red: No
• Bluetooth: 2.0
• Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g
• Integrated camera: 2 Megapixels (1600 x1200) with x2 zoom,no flash
• Video: MPEG4 format with 128 x 96 or 176 x 144 pixels resolution
• Ports: MicroSD
• Battery: 1200 removable mAh
• Operating system: Mobile Windows 5.0 (AKU 2)
• Dimensions: 11 x 5.8 x 1.7 cm
• Weight:127 G

HP rx5720 rx5925 Travel Companion Review

Oct 11, 2006 gps navigation, reviews 1 Comment

auto-translated: HP is now focused on products dedicated to GPS navigation. After having marketed the iPAQ hw6515 and hw6915 Mobile Messenger with integrated with GPS chips, they are from now on two new PDA GPS systems (not a phone!) with Windows Mobile. HP presents the iPAQ rx5720 and rx5935 Travel Companion.

Forming part of the new range of Pocket PC iPAQ series rx5000 “Travel Companion ” of HP, the rx5720/rx5935 wish to be different from the traditional PDA of the mark via the addition of a chip GPS, a use of the device in landscape mode, and the inclusion of new programs for travellers (weather forecasting, international clock, conversion of currencies, guide international telephone codes) and finally and especially of a quantity of flash memory of 1 or 2 GB following the models.

Indeed, the rx5720/rx5935, built by Taiwanese HTC, have a touch screen QVGA of size 3.5 inches, 64MB of SDRAM, of relatively compact size of 7.6 X 1.6 X 12 cm for a weight of 149 grams, the whole in more than one connector industry Bluetooth 2.0 (with support of the stereo helmets Bluetooth), of a receiver GPS SiRFStar III GSC3F, of a port for memory board SD/IO, of a processor Samsung SC3442 given rhythm with 400Mhz and of a removable battery refillable Lithium Ion of a capacity record of 1700 mAh making it possible to have 5 an announced hour endurance of use GPS.

Equipped with D-Pad of 9 directions associated with two buttons dedicated to the operating system with Microsoft, Pocket PC rx5720/rx5935 of HP use a system Windows Mobile 5 in version AKU 2.6 and are delivered out of standard with the software of navigation assitée by GPS TomTom Navigator 6 associated numerical charts Tele Atlas and a support of fixing of the suction cup type for cars.

Concerning the technical and software differences to note between the rx5720 and rx5935 of HP, the first integrates a quantity of 1 GB of ROM flash memory in more of the pre charts installed of Metropolitan France while second with 2 GB of ROM flash memory is equipped, of a chip GPS Wifi 802.11b/g and charts of pre Western Europe installed. Pocket PC HP iPAQ rx5720 and rx5935 Travel Companion will be available to the sale at semi November for a price of respectively 399 Euros including all taxes and 499 Euros including all taxes.

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Comparison of 6 PDAs and GPS

May 19, 2006 gps navigation, phones, reviews, wrist watch Leave a comment

The track we have chosen consists also of road in the countryside: the first requisite of having a vehicle capable of travelling in those roads is satisfied by the car above. For our tests we have used 6 different PDAs, ready for a very tough competition. Here they are, strictly in alphabetic order:

Fujitsu Siemens C550, the “multimedia PDA” , coupled with the GPS receiver Globalsat BT-338; N520, the entry level of FSC convergent devices; N560, currently the top of the Japanese-German vendor; HP hw6515, the first PDA-phone with AGPS; MIO A201, the budget model of the series; MIO A701, the PDA phone including a SiRFinstantFix system.

These devices are not the only electronic companions of our tests. We also have some newcomers, but we are not going to publish the results for them, due to obvious reasons. An example is the T830 by Fujitsu Siemens, still in a preliminary phase, that is expected to be available on the market by next July/September. The firmware it implements is at a too early stage to ensure an active participation to the tests and to guarantee reliable results. Side by side to this UMTS PDA phone we have included other devices: JasJar, the “king” (review); Globalsat GH-601, the wrist receiver; SD-502, the Secure Digital with a GPS antenna inside; some Nokia smartphones, and a long list of Bluetooth GPS receivers of old and new generation.

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HP iPAQ hw6915 review

May 15, 2006 gps navigation, phones Leave a comment

We had another review about the HP iPAQ hw6915 a month ago, but you just can’t read enough reviews if you consider buying one of these.

When the HP iPAQ hw6515 came out last year, it wasn’t the lack of features but rather the already one generation old operating system and lower resolution display that prevented it from becoming the smash hit the competing Palm OS Treo 650 already was and the Cingular 8125 / T-Mobile MDA would become (though all lacked the HP’s GPS). HP has mended their ways with the thoroughly modern Windows Mobile 5 iPAQ hw6915, though the 240 x 240 square resolution remains unchanged. We can forgive HP for the resolution since Windows Mobile doesn’t support 320 x 320 pixels and the form factor with front-facing keyboard requires a square display, lest the device become ungainly. Third party software support for that resolution was another thorn in the iPAQ’s side. Happily, in the many months since the 6515 came out, the 240 x 240 resolution Windows Mobile Treo 700w has come out and between the two, 3rd party software developers had good reason to update their apps to support the square screen.

Features at a Glance

The iPAQ hw6915 is a Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone Edition device that marries a PDA with a GSM mobile phone. The iPAQ is quad band world phone which supports the 850/900/1800/1900MHz bands and will work anywhere in the world GSM service is available. It has EDGE and GPRS for wide area data and WiFi 802.11b for use with hotspots, home and work wireless local area networks. The Mobile Messenger has Bluetooth 1.2, a 1.3MP camera with flash, a thumb keyboard, Mini SD slot and an internal GPS. In the US, the iPAQ ships with Pocket Streets and a 30 day demo of HP GPS Navigation System software. It runs on a 416MHz XScale processor which improves on the hw6515’s 312MHz CPU….

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Italians review the HP hw6915 with GPS

Apr 13, 2006 gps navigation, reviews 1 Comment

auto translated from Italian:
Its existence was famous sin from the first months of commercialization of the predecessore model, the iPAQ hw6515, but between little weeks the device will only arrive in the storees. The iPAQ hw6915, third Pocket PC Phone Edition proposed from HP, leader of the market of the PDA bases to you on sitema the operating Mobile Windows, is by now in arrival integrity. Previously famous like iPAQ hw6715, the new PDA Phone of HP has endured along optimization process, than it has not been involved exclusively the name. If apparently the likenesses with the predecessore are remarkable, the presence of a new processore, a Wi-Fi logon, the new operating system Mobile Windows 5 and, consequently, of 128 MB of ROM and 64 MB of RAM, contraddistinguono the new model.

The iPAQ hw6915 it continues to maintain the name of Messenger Piece of furniture, name action to indicate the optimal potentialities from given device “centric”, than however it has a fort to be able attractive also for the market consumer. The iPAQ hw6915 it has been thought from HP like an only device and, more of the predecessore, it has the papers in rule in order it are it. The implementazione of Mobile Windows 5 (and consequently of the new ones softkeys), beyond that of a rich keyboard of scorciatoie, it allows I use it of the device with a single hand, functionality sure appreciate who comes from one Smartphone. Moreover, the presence of receiver GPS, if also not thought like “killer application”, renders iPAQ hw6915 one solution poured them to the more different requirements. Finally, just Mobile Windows 5, equipped of the new Messagging and Security Feature Pack (is present AKU 2,2), completes the new potentialities of “giving-communicator” of HP, offering full support for the technology Direct Push di Microsoft.