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GPS receiver with speaker?
fatboyonadiet
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I'm looking into purchasing a GPS receiver but was hoping to kill 2 birds with one stone and get one with a built in speaker and mic so I can use it to make/take calls too.
Been having a search on Google but can't find anything, do they exist? Or will I need to seperate pieces of kit?
Been having a search on Google but can't find anything, do they exist? Or will I need to seperate pieces of kit?
2p off is still 2p off!
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Anyone????2p off is still 2p off!0
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To make phone calls you need to a mobile not a GPS receiver
So what you are looking for is a Mobile with bluetooth (most are now) so you can contact a bluetooth GPS reciever, or a Mobile with a built in GPS receiver (a few exist).
As to using the GPS you need an application on the phone, I would get TomTom mobile for either a windows or symbian phone, i used it before and it was okay. However i find dedicated GPS like TomTomIQ seem to perform better and have bigger screen that you can touch. That is the main concern, big screen on GPS vs. smaller screen on mobile with GPS.
Some mobiles like 5800, IPhone, HTC do have touch screens, but still these are pocket devices so dont have the easy to view screen a dedicated GPS device has.Although no trees were harmed during the creation of this post, a large number of electrons were greatly inconvenienced.
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies0 -
Actually I think the OP was thinking of one of the TOM TOM units that is actually a GPS with a bluetooth built in
The idea is you follow your GPS and if a phone call coimes throiugh it switches through the GPS as a hands free
I think the Navigator 5 does it http://www.tomtom.com/products/features.php?ID=99TANSTAAFL !0 -
I was thinking of one of these:
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/bluepeaker-weds-gps-speakerphone-and-bluetooth-into-one-ugly-pu
To use my phone as sat nav and take calls through it too2p off is still 2p off!0
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