Hi, will this receiver work on the iPod touch?
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 On Oct 24, 2010, at 5:48 AM, Yuma Decaux wrote: > Hi list, > > I just had a chance to test the gns bluetooth gps receiver for apple > products. > > I tried it with the iphone 4 with the latest firmware. > > After a bit of fumbling around to understand what the touch technology was on > the small device, which is a bit longer and thicker than the ipod nano 5g, i > was pretty well surprised by it's intelligent design and ease of use. > The touch technology is similar to apple's swipe gesture on a thin and long > band of touch sensitive surface for turning the device on and back off. > Swiping down for on and opposite for off. Nothing really gives a cue on its > state. But the manual says that it will turn off automatically after 15 > minutes when the bluetooth is turned off on the receiving device. I wish they > had a setting of some sort which allowed a 5 minute sleep mode, but i'm just > being a perfectionist. > > The pairing was seamless with no passcode to enter or buttons to press. > Once it was paired, i opened voxtrek and i tried my location. It apparently > just turned off once voxtrek tracked my position and we first thought it was > a battery issue. So i turned my bluetooth off and back on again, and the > device woke up and gave me an exact position with mere meters of error margin > which honestly isn't verifiable since it was pretty damn accurate. The > hardware specification says that its error margin hovers around 3 meters. A > long shot as compared to my 100 meters with the iphone gps going solo. > Also something to take note of. While perusing the net for some reviews and > comparisons, i found out that channel capacity wasn't much of a defining > factor as most gps receivers only use a maximum of 12 channels for accuracy. > The 32 included in this product will then have some longevity, unless i want > it to pin point me stuff at a near macro level which is in itself rather > useful if you want to check up on your pet hanster's whereabouts by piggy > backing the device on it. > > We also paired it to a different smartphone and it equally worked on the > dot. don't know what else it might work on, maybe i'll try pairing it to a > laptop and a microwave oven to stress test interferences and temperature. > Joking for that latter one. > The one thing i could comment on with this little thing is the plastic feel > of it. When i read the article over the site. It talked about a slick design > reminiscent of apple's impeccable form factor and choice of material, but it > turns out to be a very fragile feeling thing. > The material could have been better, like an anodized aluminium frame or > something slightly sturdier than this soft feeling plastic > You wouldn't imagine using it as a hammer anyway, and it fits snuggly > anywhere in range of the iphone when walking out, backpack, pocket, even the > lighter pocket on jeans. . > > Altogether, its pretty good and i'm anxious to get back to auckland to try it > on navigon. . > > Next thing to do is to test it's mobile precision tomorrow as we are picking > someone at a hotel we don't know. Will probably report back if anything > exceptional happens or if we ended up out in the country side or the bottm of > the city's river. > > I give it a good point in any case as my first gps augmenting experience. > > Best regardds, > > Yuma DX® > "Light has no value without darkness" > > blog: http://www.theblindsamurai.com > twitter: http://www.twitter.com/triple7 > Tel: +64 210 22 77 190 > Phnom Penh: +85589900095 > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
