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I seem to have gotten back into a favourite passtime of mine of old: playing with GPS devices.

I bought a new SiRF 3 GPS receiver a couple of weeks ago (http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/10939.htm). This is a no-name bluetooth jobbie - it takes a Nokia phone battery, and charges via mini USB, cheap and cheerful and, until a bouncy castle incident, was working flawlessly with my windows mobile 'enabled' phone.

In contrast to my old Garmin 75 (brick) GPS, this thing is tiny, and SUPER fast - incredible really. It can even (well, before I trashed it) get a fix indoors.

The amount and quality (in some cases) of mapping software has improved in recent years too - on the PDA I especially like GPS Tuner (www.gpstuner.com) very nicely designed app - screen design changes with screen orientation on the Orange SPV M5000.

Another potential goody is Virtual Earth mobile - http://www.viavirtualearth.com/vve/Gallery/VEMobile.ashx. This can download sat pics - very nice.

Google have a contender - but it is in Java :-( http://www.google.com/gmm/index.html - this stalls on my phone after it has loaded the first map - but I guess YMMV.

All for now.

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23/10/09 @ 11:34

Informative as ever...

Chris, London