HI there,
I bought a Sony streetmate off Yahoo auctions
the other week. A few observations:
1. It took **Ages** to 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 to 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 to 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 to be
taking
an age for the GPS to "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 d now is finish building
it!
Regards
Alex
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2001 3:51
PM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] RE: GPS was
response camera -
Will d ... I have it in my sweaty grasp at the moment and just
need to install Win 98 on my VAIO to use it.
By the way it's not Win 2k friendly as far as I can
gather...
Phil
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 to 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 to 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
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>
>
> If the microwaves dont get the family
jewels.....SWMBO will one day !!!
>
>
Keith
>
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