Features:
- 12-channel GPS Springboard Module with integrated mapping
- Pinpoint your exact coordinates (longitude, latitude, and altitude)
- Locate points of interests like shopping malls, police stations, and schools
- Record memos on map snapshots and save them in files
- Compatible with Handspring Visor
Description:
Nexian's HandyGPS Springboard module is a 12-channel global positioning system (GPS) receiver with an integrated mapping application from UbiGo. You can pinpoint your exact coordinates--in the city or out in the back-country. It features a built-in GPS antenna, 25-meter accuracy, and about four hours of operation with two AAA batteries. It works with all Handspring Visor handhelds; however, note that it does not support color for the Visor Prism.The module comes with two applications--HandyGPS and UbiGo. The HandyGPS application comes with the module and is only installed as long as the module is inserted. It provides such information as compass direction, speed, location, and bearing. You can also store waypoints (specific points along a route that you take). The HandyGPS also uses UbiGo, a powerful mapping software application that must be downloaded from the Ubigo Web site to your desktop PC and installed onto your Visor during a HotSync. You'll get U.S. street-level detail divided by county and city in vector maps that are specially compressed so that the city maps take up minimal space. (Only maps for the U.S. are available; maps for foreign countries are planned.) Map data is based on the maps of Geographic Data Technology (GDT). UbiGo is free for one year, after which you pay $9.99 per year for new maps. Once you plug the HandyGPS module into your Visor's Springboard expansion slot and launch UbiGo, you can see your position and start navigating on the map screen. UbiGo includes the MyMap feature, which allows you to make notes directly on the map screen about a specific location. You can also add your own points of interest (favorite restaurants or spectacular cliff views, for instance) with the MyPOI feature. With the search feature, you can find streets and local landmarks (including such categories as airport, school, shopping center, stadium, and park) within downloaded maps. Just select a category. With the HandyGPS inserted into the Springboard slot, the Visor battery level might seem to be draining fast. This is because the indicator reading is based on a calculation of how much charge is in the batteries and how much power is actually being used. And although the HandyGPS has its own batteries, it uses the Visor batteries as well. When the HandyGPS batteries become very low or empty, it will use even more of the Visor batteries. The HandyGPS can be used in a moving car; however, it is easier to establish the initial connection with the GPS satellites at slower speeds. Once that first contact is made, the HandyGPS will operate normally at higher speeds.
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