Re: Nokia N900 // GPS, again
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen roz...@geekspace.com wrote: How's the GPS? I heard from someone that the N810's GPS was lacking, I had heard same on N810 and N900, so didn't have high expectations and so haven't tested extensively. I vaguely think it's supposed to be quicker than 810 but still not a terribly precise (by GPS nerd standards). Only time I tried it half-seriously I had horrible skies, indoors near window with 3G, and was pleasantly surprised it was able to be crudely off-position quickly. Since I was thinking of getting a logger (screenless) GPS anyway, for use with camera geotagging, having a logger bluetooth bond with the N900 only when I want to do precision mapping live online doesn't seem unreasonable for me. I myself would not plan on using my phone for navigation, as for that I use a sportsman's Garmin which is differently hackable (OSM.ORG maps, freebeer downloaded POI files, custom by me POI files with my own icons). I use rangeazimuth more often than turn-by-turn, and when using street routing it's more for amusement or for debuging the OSM import of MASS GIS or TIGER data than for actual guidance. I also wouldn't want my phone loose on the dash either, it rides on the console on an antiskid mat (bought in kitchen gadget aisle at grocery who think its a drawer liner). (In that position, a Bluetooth screenless GPS several feet forward at the base of the windscreen would help sky visibility too., but not safely viewable by driver for Nav.) -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Nokia N900 // GPS
On 04/30/2010 08:33 AM, Benjamin Scott wrote: I was rather disappointed. I used the 2.5mm jack wireline version once (thanks, Bill McG!), and it was much better. Apparently they skimped on the electronics in this one. Yeah, I thought I'd 'upgrade' to the bluetooth version and it's not the droid I was looking for. I mostly use an old Plantronics 2.5mm 1-ear headset these days if I have to use the cellphone for long. My LG phone does great managing the gain, the previous Motorola didn't. The wire is unfortunate but I've tried a variety of bluetooth headsets on several phones and they've all failed at the basics, like simple noise rejection. The cheap headset uses a plastic mic boom, not DSP's, and sounds great. If anybody actually wants the bluetooth retro, understanding its limitations, just shout - the LUG sneakernet can probably find a routing solution. -Bill -- Bill McGonigle, Owner BFC Computing, LLC http://bfccomputing.com/ Telephone: +1.603.448.4440 Email, IM, VOIP: b...@bfccomputing.com VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf Social networks: bill_mcgonigle/bill.mcgonigle ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Nokia N900 // GPS
Both: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/ (I have one. Audio quality sucks, unfortunately.) yeah it sounds gike a1g cellphone ... but it looks good and fits the ear-mouth spacing. uniting threads, OSM2Go field map-editing program works fine with N900 , although i am told the internal GPS is low res and on outboard bluetooth GPS placed where it has good sat vis will improve things. Repository includes gpsd iirc. Haven't used the OviMaemo mapping. -- Bill n1...@arrl.net bill.n1...@gmail.com ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: Nokia N900 // GPS
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Both: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/8928/ (I have one. Audio quality sucks, unfortunately.) yeah it sounds gike a1g cellphone ... I was rather disappointed. I used the 2.5mm jack wireline version once (thanks, Bill McG!), and it was much better. Apparently they skimped on the electronics in this one. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
