Visiontac VGPS-700 getting ready to hit North American market
Published on December 24th, 2006 in bluetooth, gps navigation
Well we just got the word from Visiontac Instrument Inc that they’ll soon be bringing the VGPS-700 to the North American market. If you’ve been reading Navigadget for a while now you’ll know that we reported on another tiny bluetooth GPS receiver back in March called Columbus V700 which looked very very similar to the new VGPS-700 we have today. However we were informed that Columbus was designed for Chinese market and the VGPS-700 is not the same thing and it specially designed for North America.
The Visiontac VGPS-700 has built-in 850 mAh lithium polymer battery which enables it to run 8 to 12 hours. However a nice freebie (pictured to the right) you’ll find in the box is the external battery pack which will get you up to 18 to 20 hours.
Here are some more details:
Product Specification
- Dimension: 53.5(L)x32.5(W)x13.9(H)mm
- Weight: 33g
- Volume: 24cc
- Channels: 20 channel all-in-view tracking
- Frequency: 1575.42 MHz (L1, C/A code)
- Minimum signal tracked: -159dBm
- Antenna Type: Built-in ceramic antenna
Acquisition Time:
- Reacquisition: 0.1 sec
- Hot Start: 1 sec
- Warm Start: 38 sec
- Cold Start: 42 sec
Bluetooth
- Compatible Bluetooth device with Serial Port Profile
- Bluetooth version 1.2 compliant
- Bluetooth Class 2 operation (up to 5 meters range)
- Frequency: 2.400 to 2.480 GHz
- Modulation: FHSS / GFSK
- RF channels: 79
- Input sensitivity: -80dBm
- Output level: 4dBm
We can’t get wait get our hands on one of these and do a review for our readers.
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