Re: RE: GPS was response camera -

["alexpd" <alexpd@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: GPS was response camera -

HI there,

 

I bought a Sony streetmate off Yahoo auctions the other week. A few observations:

 

1. It took **Ages** t find its current location ( around 6 hours) and could only see the satellites when I had the antenna hanging out the house window.

2. Route planning seems a bit of a bodge ( if you ask for rush hour root from March in Cambridgeshire t Reading it proposes east t the M11 down the M11 then round miles of the M25!!!)

3. It doesn't even tell you if you deviate off the route. The built in one I had in a BMW I hired told you if you missed a turn and recommended a U-turn etc.

4. If you take the GPS card out of the laptop then travel without it in place it loses its location and has t be re-configured... again several hours.

5. The internet traffic update has been dropped and is no longer available.

 

I have just bought a copy of Autoroute 2001 which should work with the GPS card provided and hopefully solve some of the functionality problems I mention above. However this also seems t be taking an age for the GPS t "find" itself.

 

Moving on a bit. Does anyone know where I can get a ( reasonably priced) in Car power adapter for a laptop. I have an Advent laptop ( PC world special!) which takes 20V 3A input,. I was recommended a Targus kit down Tottenham Ct Rd at £90! Any ideas?

 

Also just got my Pronto - again off the auction, and some X10 Modules and IR converter  for my super dooper Home Cinema/ Lounge..... All I have to do now is finish building it!

 

Regards

 

Alex

----- Original Message -----

From: Phil Harris

To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:51 PM

Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

Will do ... I have it in my sweaty grasp at the moment and just need t install Win 98 on my VAIO t use it.

 

By the way it's not Win 2k friendly as far as I can gather...

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Hawkins [mailto:tivo@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 21 July 2001 10:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was response camera -

        Phil,

        Let me know what you think of this I am tempted myself. One of the things which wasn't yet implemented in the product when it first came out was dynamic recalculations of a route from A t B. So if you went wrong or deviated from the route the software would not (automatically) adjust its route. This had a particular impact if you were using their internet based traffic information. It was not accounted for once the route was initially set up. If a holdup was later identified it still directed you straight into it. Don't think they envisaged mobile internet access.

        Kevin

        I really *AM* going t borrow a Sony Streetmate system from Ian today and
the idea is I'm just "looking" at them t see what they're like...

*grin*

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 20 July 2001 23:15
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] response camera -
>
>
> If the microwaves dont get the family jewels.....SWMBO will one day !!!
>
> Keith
>




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