GPS (general: wat is it? how does it work?), Get your answers here!
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 Jan 2 2007, 11:02 PM
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One question.
How does using a BT GPS affect battery life of a PDA (for example an O2 Atom Exec)? Does it really affect the battery life of the PDA. I mean when using the software for navigation a lot. With all those animations and tracking and BT data transferring, will the battery life of the PDA be really affected? Thanks. |
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Jan 2 2007, 11:32 PM
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QUOTE(H4RRY @ Jan 2 2007, 11:31 PM) When u're running BT GPS, it's constantly sending data 2 ur PDA, that drain the battery. If ur pda BT is idle, not transferring, then not much battery is used. That's what i think. I'm interested to hear from first-hand user experience. But thanks anyway for trying to help out. |
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Jan 2 2007, 11:44 PM
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QUOTE(Baronic @ Jan 2 2007, 11:40 PM) u mean battery life, how long can your PDA last before need recharging? battery life dunno la, but of course, if u're using BT GPS, battery drain faster than using plain inbuilt GPS that's what i'm confused about.according to imperialrealcs at post no. 67 here http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/388760/+60, he said that those with built-in chipsets drain battery much faster because they must power the chipset as well while BT GPS has it's own battery for the chipset. |
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Jan 2 2007, 11:53 PM
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QUOTE(Baronic @ Jan 2 2007, 11:49 PM) hmmmm, lets see. Thanks for sharing your experience. My car's electrical socket is being used for something else now, you see. inbuilt GPS: your Pda must power GPS, and the software BT GPS: pda must power bluetooth, which is not only on, but CONSTANTLY transfering data. Plus the software of course. I'm not too sure, but my money would be on that constantly transfering data via BT uses a lot of battery EITHER way u choose, your PDA will not last long, about 3-4 hours if you're lucky Solution, get a PDA car charger. No worries at all  Anyone else have any opinions? |
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Jan 8 2007, 04:10 PM
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QUOTE(Baronic @ Jan 8 2007, 03:25 PM) lets say u on the road. GPS shows u a path thats damn traffic jam already. If u know the general direction of where u shud go, u can take a diff road, and force the system to reroute you to a better path can the GPS detect traffic jam? (like can we see the roads around us if there are many cars?)one more thing. you said can reroute a better path. means the software oso shows direction of the roads? coz in KL those roads all like one way nia.  |
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Jan 8 2007, 04:15 PM
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QUOTE(liewss80 @ Jan 8 2007, 04:14 PM) No way, man. GPS detects ur coordinate, then realign ur coordinate on the digital map (software) on ur gadget. Its not a cam to capture image. Ok. Thanks for the info. That's really cool. It depends on ur map software. As for my mapking, yes. It shows one way road. Whn auto routing, it knows way to guide u accordingly  |
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