| Author | Message | ||
     Ft_bstrd |
I am thinking of getting this unit for my Blackberry. Anyone using it? | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
I am. I didn't know they had software for the blackberry platform. I use mine under WM6 smartphone. I have a review floating around here of it. Any specific questions? | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/384 2/260528.html?1178440002 Here is the link to my review. It is not the Crackberry version, but it will give you an idea. I looked on Garmins site at the blackberry version. It doesn't look as polished as the windows mobile version, but it should work just fine. As just a BT GPS receiver, the 10x is the best GPS receiver I have used/seen. They modified the standard SirfstarIII chip for serious power savings. Most other BT units last 10 hours, unless they have large battery packs. This unit uses a standard Nokia lithium cell phone battery (cheap to replace) to achieve 24 hours of real world use. The only downside is it uses a proprietary protocol, so you cannot use it with other mapping software, such as Googlemaps, or MS Live. | ||
| Ft_bstrd |
Will the 10X allow the simultaneous use of a BT headset? Where are the maps and POI's housed? If I go into the blind and lose cell signal, what happens? | ||
| Corporatemonkey |
Everything I am about to say pertains to the Windows mobile platform. I have not used the crackberry version, so some of this might not pertain to you. BT use: It is not up to the 10x to allow multi BT connections. It is up to your mobile device. On my smartphone I can run 2 connections. On my Pocketppc I can run 3. Maps/POI: I have them on a 2gb data card. The entire North America maps (as of vs.8) are around ~1gb. Loss of service: Nothing bad happens. The device continues to navigate without any interruption. Any feature that requires net access will not function. The only downside of losing service is my BT headset will beep. This is caused by my phone reporting signal to the BT headset, not all devices do this. I have spend countless hours trying to defeat this, with no avail. On this last trip I came up with a simple fix. Turn the headset volume down until I cannot hear the beeps. Simple, but it works. Now because you are on the crackberry platform you need to do some research. A lot of the navigation systems I have seen for blackberry do not have any included maps. I think Telenav (?) is the main one I am thinking of. They buffer maps using your net connection, much in the way google maps/earth does. You want to avoid these systems. They are slow, and if you lose connection (which if you can't do on a ride, you haven't been far enough) you are hosed. The best places to get info on PDA nav systems are here You will have to search, but they have a HUGE posting on Garminxt, and Garmin 10x. This is a French website, with an english section. This by far is the more technical site. http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/default.asp This is a more general site, but it gets updated more frequently. http://forum.brighthand.com/forumdisplay.php?f=53 |
