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 macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
