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Tungsten E with GPS is possible but

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    Hello everyone,

    I spend many days of intensive forum browsing of this problem.Firstly, it is possible tu hae GPS on Tungsten E.
    I'm not clear about solutions, I have more combinations how to do that, so please comment my suggestions, if I'm correct/incorrect, and write your experience.

    So I want to have GPS unit with my Tungsten E.

    1.Bluetooth Solution.
    Can Tungsten E handle bluetooth device sticked in SD slot ?
    If Yes, i think, connection to a BlueTooth GPS receiver will be without problems. Does exist SDIO Bluetooth device with additional expansion slot ?
    Does palm need special drivers for GPS receiver unit ? I think NMEA 0183 is standard protocol with comes with most GPS receivers.

    If No, what do you think of SPECTEC, point 2

    2.Spectec solution
    http://www.spectec.com.tw/sdg810.htm

    They have SDIO GPS RECEIVER SDG-810 solution, with added microSD slot, or SDG-812 with BlueTooth support (maybe not possible because of more power consuption), very effective to store maps, and so on.

    I have heard that that company is not so "customer friendly".

    I'v got Official Palm answer that support for SDIO cards/drivers I have to talk with exact company, but people say, that SDIO slot is compatible with any SDIO card, without problems.

    If this still dont works, point 3

    3.GPS "Mouse" solution
    I think it was started by Kirrio company and their's solution.
    I now that Tungsten is USB slave device, so I found also some solutions for this like Holux gr213, chingtek gps-355.haicom 204s, altina ggm-309. All I need is to have PS/2 to USB mini cable solution. It is easy to buy, and also can be maded by your own.
    But I don't understand that it will works,because I found some thread like, the GPS mouse is sending data, but Palm have to send byte and after that it can receive data from gps. I think it can be maded by application to send one byte, but I'm not sure of this solution.

    Byte post http://forums.palmone.com/palm/board/message?board.id=software&message.id=1559&query.id=74590

    Thank you for any answer of solution and suggestion.

    Sorry for my pure English (Slovakia country)

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    I am sorry, Palm devices CANNOT host any other USB devices, so thats out of the question.

    Capt. JC

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      CommentAuthoraelbeni
    • Oct 26th 2007
     

    The setup described there uses a USB Host interface between the GPS and the Palm.

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    Hello cwaegaer, welcome to
    No problem at all with your English

    1. I am not aware about an SDIO/BT solution for PalmOS, certainly not for TE.
    2. Spectec solution is also new to me. I doubt it will work for PalmOS though.
    3. Kirrio solution is what I used also when still having a TE. The mouse acts as USB host so any GPS program you have on your device can communicate with that using serial protocol.

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    ok, I will but GPS Mouse, but

    Question about PS/2 and USB,

    Can I buy GPS Mouse with USB cable ? then I just buy reduction to my USB mini connector,
    or I have to strictly buy PS2 gps mouse and buy convertor cable from PS2 to miniUSB for tungsten E

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      CommentAuthoraelbeni
    • Oct 26th 2007
     

    There are no SDIO Bluetooth cards which work on current Palm OS models.

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    I have had a Holux mouse GPS on my Tungsten E for over a year now. It uses a specific cable on a Kirrio serial connection (USB port), and works well with all gps software I own (mapopolis, cotoGPS, cetusGPS.)

    thx

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    hm, that does not make me sense, previous posts said that is possible, or like the post t.
    I'm little bit confused

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