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Does anyone know if any shops on the high street sell Bluetooth GPS receivers ?

I need one for my Nokia so I can run Tom Tom Mobile. I've found loads on eBay, but I'd ideally like to test it first. Can't seem to find any high street retailers selling them. The eBay ones will fit the bill nicely, especially at £50-£60, but would rather test one out first.

I've tried all the major phone and gadget stores like CPW, Dixons/Currys, Comet, Maplin, PC World etc

This is the kind of thing I'm after...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4668&item=5785265532&rd=1

All help appreciated :)

Rob
 
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Reason i bought two was because after having my sat nav working for afew months my brother wanted one. Hence the second purchase.

Joske
 
Yeah, that's the guy I've got saved in my favourites.

Just can't seem to find a shop that sells them.

Rob
 
You'll prob have difficulty finding one, most of them on Ebay are from the USA and are stupidly expensive. I can vouch for the reciever being in tip top order. No problems with loss of signal except once in a tunnel obviously.

Joske
 
Joske,

Just bought the same BT-77 GPS receiver on eBay as you.

I have heard some people have difficulty getting TTM5 to recognise a non Tom Tom GPS receiver. Did you have any difficulties ?

Cheers,

Rob.

Rob
 
No difficulties at all, you got TomTom Mobile 5 off me so it'll work great as TomTom 5 allows you to set either TomToms Own Reciever or Other Reciever, you'd choose other obviously.

If its TomTom 4 then i can send you the file required to use any reciever.

Joske
 
Nope, TT5 is what I have so I am pretty confident now after your reassurances :)

Now can't wait to play with it :)

Also ordered a fancy goose neck holder for it all :)

Rob
 
Yeah its pretty cool, any problems with it let us know.

The CD that comes with it is not required all you do is switch it on and switch on your TomTom and away it goes.

It may take a min or two to get a signal but once on it hardly looses a signal. The charge lasts for ages so wouldn't worry about that. I find my phone runs out of charge alot quicker.

Also a good thing with TT5 is you can see your speed aswell.

Joske

P.s I sorted out the voice speed camera POI's. Works ok, i still wouldn't risk putting my foot down but good to know moreless where the cameras are.
 
Glad you got the camera stuff sorted :)

Do Tom Tom or anyone else do a sat nav program for Windows XP ? I was considering using it on my laptop.

BTW, have you seen the new John Cleese voice for Tom Tom ? Superb, but it costs a tenner. Still, got to be worth a punt :)

Rob
 
yeah you can, i have tomtom navigator on 2 DVD's for PC but i don't have a GPS mouse for it as my pc hasn't got bluetooth.

Joske
 
Hey, I noticed previous thread about TomTom, but thought you were giving out the torrent for the PDA version, and not mobile.

Can I have please? :)

I've already got the GPS device (Altina one) and working with TomTom v4. Phones are SPV C500 and Nokia 6600. Got lots of maps as well, just the software bit is causing problems (all in Spanish!).
 
now then

The Great Britain Map you sent me Joske is all as you said it was.

I got another copy of tomtom mobile 5 without maps off of emule (netherlands version), cracked it and added the zip folder to allow full postcode searching.

Works great

I've got the speed camera stuff on Rob mentioned but now i need to test it.

As it turns out now you can search on emule for tomtom mobile 5 with gb map and download it!

do you have the "zip" folder for full postcode searching?
 
Re: now then

What is this "zip" folder for full postcode searching you speak of ?

Rob
 
can you

Hello

Can you do full postcode searching, ie using the full postcode takes you to the correct street. You should have an option to search postcode when putting in destination etc.

If not then you need this folder at the root of your memory card where tomtom resides.

Its only 8mb and a search on emule will bring it up
 
Re: can you

I have the postcode search function but it doesn't take me to the street. What file should I be looking for ?

Rob
 
Re: can you

Have emuled a couple of versions, but one was just the cracked exe, one was just maps and the other was complete but I think it's for Nokia Series60. Anyone got a link to the windows smartphone app? Or a very kind person could email it to daedos59 @ yahoo.com
 
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