NaviGadget

Cross-platform GPS comparison

Feb 28, 2006 gps navigation, reviews

We have been comparing GPS receivers since the site was launched in late 2002, although at the time models available for testing where few and far in-between and our testing methods were naturally a bit “inexperienced”. These days, new GPS systems and chipsets seem to be “popping out” each day, in PDAs, in phones, AIO’s, etc…and our test methods took a turn for the better in 2005 with the reference GPS Chipset Comparison Article that focused on comparing actual tracks to see what type of raw data the GPS receivers were feeding to the navigation software, the idea being that the better the track, the better the guidance provided by the software, the aim of any system out there, regardless of its form factor. We have further refined the test methods with quantitative signal analysis… via