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Motorola’s new iDEN phone i876 that is expected to come out fourth quarter of this year has already passed FCC conformity tests. Motorola i876 is of special interest to us because it features GPS. However; the amount of things you can do with the GPS is limited. Here is how much the manual mentions about using the GPS:

Use GPS with map software: Connect your phone to your laptop (or other device) with a serial data cable and set your phone to transmit data. Open the connector cover. With the phone’s display facing up, insert the serial data cable’s connector into the accessory connector, until you hear a click.

Insert the data plug into the COM port of your laptop or other device. Make sure no other application is using the COM port selected.Set the COM port settings of your laptop or other device as follows:

• Bits per second: 4800
• Data bits: 8
• Parity: None
• Stop bits: 1
• Flow control: Hardware

To set your phone to send location information to your laptop or other device: Press M > Tools > GPS > Interface > set NMEA OUT to On.

motorola i876 manual [2.2MB PDF!!!]

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