Just wondering what GPS puck everyone uses/which one you think is the best. I got a 8320 coming and wouldn't mind picking one up. Also how much you paid.
I use a Freedom Keychain 2000, purchased from the Crackberry store. You can check the price there. It's comparable to my Garmin Forerunner 205, and more sensitive than my DeLorme Earthmate. I really like it.
By comparable and more sensitive, I mean the Freedom Keychain 2000 and the Garmin can both lock on the satellites under poorer conditions (indoors, heavy foliage, inside an aircraft) than my Delorme Earthmate. No measured data, just experience.
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I use a Freedom Keychain 2000, purchased from the Crackberry store. You can check the price there. It's comparable to my Garmin Forerunner 205, and more sensitive than my DeLorme Earthmate. I really like it.
By comparable and more sensitive, I mean the Freedom Keychain 2000 and the Garmin can both lock on the satellites under poorer conditions (indoors, heavy foliage, inside an aircraft) than my Delorme Earthmate. No measured data, just experience.
Can you clear something up for me? How exactly does this GPS puck work? Do you have software installed on your phone that works as the GPS? This is driving me nuts trying to understand this.
The Freedom Keychain 2000 is just the GPS receiver. It doesn't come with any software. You have to use Blackberry Maps or Nav4All or Google Maps or some other nav/mapping software with it. The Freedom just takes the place of the disabled internal GPS in Verizon phones.
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The Freedom Keychain 2000 is just the GPS receiver. It doesn't come with any software. You have to use Blackberry Maps or Nav4All or Google Maps or some other nav/mapping software with it. The Freedom just takes the place of the disabled internal GPS in Verizon phones.
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I had a holux m1000 that i used with my dell axim x51v with tomtom installed till i got my blackberry and found out sprint gives away the telnav gps software. Gave the m1000 to my friend who has a verizon 8330 and it works like a charm.
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Since it pairs through bluetooth, will it affect my other bluetooth connection such as the car radio?
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bluetooth can support 2 (sometimes more) simaltaneous connections.. it really is an amazing protocal, although wireless usb is more impressive i think
If so, when I use a mapping program is my BB using the RF signal for triangulation?
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Not all phones, but the 8330 is locked to only bbmaps and vzw navigator
Not exactly. The program has to support the feature and everything, usually it is not triangulation but the phone sends the ID code for the tower you are on and it finds the location of the tower and tells you you are within like 1 mile of that tower or something... not exactly the most accurate...
