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02-20-2004
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General "Noob Basher"
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Munich, Germany
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New garmin Puck GPS
Click HERE for the full info...
UPDATE From Garmin Support: They should be on almost every major dealers shelves by the end of the first quarter.
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Legends may sleep, but they never die!!!! Last edited by Madhadder : 02-22-2004 at 08:15 AM. |
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PeaceDriver
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras
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I would've prefered to see a USB cable. The serial cable screams OEM, but the cigarette lighter says consumer. I would've expected two stripped wires or something for the power...
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General "Noob Basher"
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Munich, Germany
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Read the site again.... It will come in 3 models 1. USB 2. Serial 3. Bare Wire/No Conx.
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Umm Smells like kim chee
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: South Korea
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Interesting <german accent>. Garmin has always advirted a bare/cable model for a while. going to have to try and ordering one finally.
Beer induced repost. MAui
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Who Wants Butter???
Join Date: May 2003
Location: St. Pete Beach, FL.
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I dunno, I can't think of another GPS reciever I would prefer over my Sapphire. You can't beat the lock time, the included cables that are spliced together to provide power to both the GPS and the iPAQ, or you can just get the straight USB cable for you lappy users.
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Registered Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: remote scottish highlands (after leaving therpalm trees of torquay in the english rivierra Brrr chilly man!
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Talking of new laptops only having usb ports. I just ordered one of these usb to com adaptors from
www.gpsbitz.co.uk couldnt find the same belkin one here in uk that eyecannon and other people are using but this one should do the job. here is the details they emailed me. Thought this may be of use to anyone in uk/europe havent tried it yet though but in theory it looks like it should be suitable. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Belkin rebadged our converter hardware and Garmin largely failed some years back. Device Manager assigns COM Ports well above COM 2 but usually 3,4,5,6 are used for GPS and similiar. Mappoint is same as Autoroute in this context and looks for COM ports above COM 2 (can't remember how high they will go - not far). Anyway, its mainly a problem with old software applications that either only look for COM 1 and 2 or skirt windows and look in the BIOS - they will not work. Nokia are typical here and some older 232C devices. Ours works very well and comes with either a 4inch cable or 6 footer. We went the extra miles and got Microsoft approval for our driver. At least we get a quality mark there and can sell to quality businesses. Not sure about Netstumbler - is that wardriving stuff? I can speed up the GPS sampling rate on Mappoint from 20 to 2 secs (2001 I have done and USA version) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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PeaceDriver
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Dos Palabras, Mandoras
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All in all, it sounds very nice. Although I would prefer a serial port on my laptop 
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Tropical Stumbler
Join Date: Apr 2002
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Last edited by fordem : 02-20-2004 at 04:05 PM. |
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