This may not be the solution for you but I got a GlobalSat BT 368 that is about the size of 2 match books longways and thick ways. I use the free bluetooth gps in the market and I now have GPS better than my epic 4g or my wifes 4g touch. In fact I am now thinking about getting a full size navigation program like copilot or sygic any thoughts on a good program
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018YZ836/ref=oh_o00_s00_i00_details
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Looks good. How long battery last?
Can't tell you from experience I only got it thurs. Its rated at 11 hours continuous use but cuts off after 10 mins. if not connected. If it's anything like a speaker phone with the same ratings and features it will probably need charging every three weeks. 2 hour charge.
I have been thinking about just leaving it plugged up in my glove compartment and on continuously. Once locked it doesn't lose signals for anything that I have been able to try in the house.
HI,
Glad you got your GPS working. I don't know type of phones you have available, but if they are Win6-7 phones, there is a program out there called WiFiRouter (costs, but it works great....use it all the time), then you can use a free program called WAZE that uses online data. I find the routes selected, but the the nice thing is that it is "user-interactive"....that is, users identify construction/police/slow-stopped traffic. It should work great in DC. Other than that, I'd go with CoPilot for now because it's cheap. Magellan and Garmin have operation apps for the iphone, but not the Android Market yet, and those are the 2 companies that I would recommend.
Personally, my current setup is a Garmin 4390 standalone, with WAZE running to let me know where the traffic and cops are. Haven't had the Prime long enough to see if there's any others available....The other company to look at is Tom-Tom.
If you're going to connect the Prime to the internet via the phone, then you probably need to apply this fix, so ad-hoc networks are available. ICS stock has them locked out.
If you have an Android phone, there are apps similar to the WiFiRouter, I'm sure.
Good luck,
Bob
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Ok this is just a shot in the dark, but i was watching discoverychannel the other day and it was a program about Sniper rifles, you might think what the *beep* has that got to do with windows mobile.
Just hear me out.
The CheyTac Intervention Sniper System is a rifle combined with a tactical ballistic computer that calculates stuff like bullet drop, wind speed, humidity, temperatures and stuff like that.
I noticed that the computer was a windows mobile device, and that means the program for calculating that sort of info is a windows mobile app.
I've searched around, but without luck.
Its pretty useless without the rifle (especially and in a country were owning a gun is not very easy) but that doesn't matter, i like these sorts of rather useless apps, for example, i'm the type of guy that comes up with new words you can make with a calculator while holding it upside down
Its probably to rare to be available for download, bit who knows someone knows were to find it...
pic of the gun and tactical ballistic computer:
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*cough* modern warfare 2 *cough*
lol jk.
It's very interesting that this program was made for a Windows Mobile system (from a video it looks like Pocket PC 2003 maybe??).
Even so, I highly doubt this is available to the public.
It is probably a very expensive program too, considering that is is used by the U.S. Military, created specifically for one weapon system.
I would play around with this app if I got my hands on it too
Can't find the one your looking for but there is quite a lot of ballistic software available for Winmo devices, just do a search in google. You will get what you pay for though .
You can try to get a copy of the SW:
Software Support
Email: [email protected]
Chris Mewbourne
Telephone: 256.850.0081
Yes it is WM 2003:
"The software package operates on variety of consumer, hardened and mil-spec R-PDAs running the Windows Mobile 2003 operating system, using input from the Kestrel handheld weather station and Vector IV laser rangefinder binoculars."
From: http://www.enotes.com/topic/CheyTac_Intervention
Well i woke up and drove out to sprint way earlier today.
I have to admit, i did give a split thought to the evo3d because they got the 2.3.4 update. But no way could it make everything perfect in that ota. So i went with my original choice.
This phone is sexy. It is really fast... doing side by side actions with the epic on gb, the photon was twice as fast if not more in some areas.
Pure computing power this phone noticeably crushes my epic.
Not once was i frustrated an app didnt open instantly, how
I wanted my epic experience to be.
The fone is growing on me and i love it more the longer i have it.
I love the MOTOBLUR. Great balance between pure google and overlay ui. Very cool experience you cant find with any other oem ui.
Like the extensive integration with social networks.
I love how the stock music player does the lyrics, that was a surprise today. And many other cool things but i have to cut this short. But i have to mention, the screens on the display units are not the same on our consumer handsets. It looked complete trash on the demo, but my fone screen is amazing.. no screen issues at all. I did have call bug very first call. Remove sim and im good.
And lastly, i understand about you guys saying youre not eorried about the Galaxy anymore. I may keep this.
Something about pulling up gps status and getting INSTANT 9 of 9 sats inside the appartment with zero error that makes me feel all warm and goey inside
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Very cool you got u one of these Mo-Phos... I think you'll like it.
I'm still on the fence as to whether i'm going to perma-keep mines.. lol
when the GS2 comes out, I'll play with it for sure, but if it has crippled GPS/bluetooth, I'll just stick w/ moto this time.
I noticed today that my WIFI was exceptionally slow on my device. Being 4 feet away from my wireless router, i was getting 1-5 mbps speed..
my router has a function that lists connected wifi devices and the assumed connection speed.. it said my Transformer was connected at 58mbps.. so something was fishy
Everything was exceptionally slow, even browsing. after a simple full shutdown and startup it was back to normal. maybe this is the wifi bug some people were having? anyways, a restart made it exceptionally better
anyone else come across this?
Haven't seen this yet but it does sound like your unit has a wifi defect. :banghead: I can say the following two things:
1. The operating channel/frequency does seem to make small differences. Probably noise in my environment.
2. Wireless range seems to be short. I'm getting no where as good of range as my iPhone can. I'd say its short by a good 25 feet or so.
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Look at the face staring at the wall...
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DaRacerz said:
Haven't seen this yet but it does sound like your unit has a wifi defect. :banghead: I can say the following two things:
1. The operating channel/frequency does seem to make small differences. Probably noise in my environment.
2. Wireless range seems to be short. I'm getting no where as good of range as my iPhone can. I'd say its short by a good 25 feet or so.
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well the weird thing, im normally fine. i play was playing spotify (high BW audio) in my driveway (through two walls and total about 50 feet) and was getting great reception.
just had this one issue. weird.
It's not a bug. The 58Mbs is the reported link rate, not the actual throughput. Many people mistake the link rate for bandwidth.
I think some of the lag mentioned (elsewhere) are due to poor wifi connectivity.
Never posted here and perhaps this post isn't necessary but felt compelled. I preordered from Amazon on 11/22 and was salivating for a month until the GPS issues started to be reported. The salivating turned to apprehension. On 1/3 I received the Prime and it is indeed gorgeous. Sadly I'm suffering the same problems as most. No need to beat a dead horse. The GPS issue I can stomach since I have a bluetooth Garmin that works fine with the Prime. However the poor GPS performance is extremely disappointing. Simply transferring files from my laptop to the Prime over wi-fi was much slower that transferring between other devices in my home. In fact so far I'd say it's unusable in that regard. I should add that I'm sitting less than 3 feet from my router when transferring.
Perhaps my expectations were too high but with the keyboard my plan was that this device would replace my laptop for all but the most rigorous tasks. That's not going to happen and now I'm not even sure I'm going to order the keyboard.
BTW BT is weak as well. If all of these issues are indeed due to the aluminum case it's just unbelievable to me that a company could screw up this bad. I'm hopeful that someone comes up with something even if it's just providing instruction on how/where to take a drill to the darn thing. But my expectations aren probably too high on this front too.
In short unless someone has disposable income I'd advise they steer clear and wait for a better offering. I'll likely keep mine until something better appears then I'll be putting it on Ebay.
That's not review, you are beating the dead horse....
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That's not review, you are beating the dead horse....
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Well I guess you're right. A mod can remove and my feelings won't get hurt.
I guess I just wanted to get my shots in on that horse.
ride the dead horse.
a drill won't fix it. you need to point the screen at the router.
the entire foundation of the tablet is built into the aluminum case. everything is screwed into it.
the antennas are on either side of the front-facing camera. want better reception, point the tablet screen in the direction of your router or BT tether
How to Bluetooth tether?
>How to Bluetooth tether?
Put phone in one can and tablet in the other (use bigger can for tablet)
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To activate connection, sing the "Get Connected" song.
Most people who want an armband want it for running, biking, etc., where they won't pull the phone out during their event. However, I need an armband for hiking because I use my Razr Maxx as a GPS (using offline maps and the ViewRanger app). It's never going to be acceptable for me to try to use it while it's in the armband, because I would not be able to see it well enough, much less manipulate the GPS program. I need a safe, secure pocket for the phone from which I can pull out the phone dozens or hundreds of times over the course of the day. I don't wear shirts with pockets while hiking and even if I did, the straps of my backpack would interfere with getting in the pocket. I want something that will let me keep my phone on my bicep so it will have a good sky-view and it's easy to pull out.
Any suggestions?
Saw one at best buy close to what you are looking for. Its neoprene and made for large phones. The neoprene should make it easy to pull out and put back. You'll have to look it up or just go to the store and ask as I'm not too sure who makes it or what its called.
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Tell me what you end up getting, Id like one for when riding my bike alot, keeping it closer to my bluetooth headphones would be nice to stop the audio cut outs. Also then the screen would be easy for me to look at and change a song when riding
Also let me know how adjustibe the armband is, im kinda really skinny and my biceps arent that big
Here is one...
Just in case, here is the one I purchased and have been using at the gym and when riding my bike.
http://www.amazon.com/Armband-for-M..._1_1?s=wireless&ie=UTF8&qid=1341725899&sr=1-1
XXL-Armband from Arkon, $17.95:
http://www.arkon.com/sports_armband/smart-phone-xxl-arm-band.html
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Has anyone found a cheap and good armband to be used with og RAZR? From eBay?
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