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More On The iPhone GPS. WOW!

March 7th, 2008 Greg Smith No comments

Since the bluetooth on iPhone is reserved for only wireless headset they actually used WiFi to transmit data between the GPS receiver and iPhone. To make this possible the GPS receiver integrates a processor, Wi-Fi antenna, and even a microSD card slot to store the maps. The navigation software itself will also be accesssed via the WiFi GPS receiver using a web interface. The navigation software used and customized for LocoGPS is iGO 8.

Impressive young Skywalker, Hopefully they will ditch the web interface now that the SDK is available. Hopefully Apple opens up the bluetooth interface so this sort of overdone interface isn’t needed.

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The GPS Search Continues

August 14th, 2003 Greg Smith 1 comment
Several Mac websites pointed to this article about using the Haicom HI-302 GPS receiver with the Mac. The advantage of this thing is its a compact flash based device and can work in the Mac’s PC card slot with an adapter. This means no cables needed, it’s almost built in! It also appears that it is recognized by the MacOS and works like any other GPS program would.

If you do a english only search for this item in google you can find it for sale in the US. For about $300! Yikes. Despite it’s lack of cables and need for a separate power supply I could buy a stand alone receiver for that amount of money. Doesn’t appear to be any on ebay, perhaps they will eventually show up. 

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