i have an n800 and i've been hearing everyone here on the forum talk about the hollux models. There's this really cool one from Israel. It boasts 51 channels and its description says bluetooth 2.0 class II
10 meter range using Serial Port Profile



the only thing is that its chipset says MTK and i remember in an older thread, people said MTK was built into the N810 and that it took 3+ mins to get a position fix

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...1073%26fvi%3D1

I own this model and it says it uses the MTK chip and it never takes more than 30-45 seconds to get a lock and it works in the house too.

yeah. the iblue 737 says its bluetooth v1.2 tho.

i really wanna know if the model i posted would work...

I was just letting you know that the MTK chip it not really the slow problem

The GPS inside the N810 is a Motorola chip designed for A-GPS (Assisted GPS) that uses cell-phone-tower triangulation to help the GPS find its initial position. Since the N810 doesn't provide this "rough estimate" position, performance blows (this is actually a design flaw 8-( )

I am almost certain that MTK != Motorola Chipset, so your GPS might very well be much much much better than the built-in GPS. (In fact, I remember reading somewhere that the MTK unit is the only GPS comparable to SiRF III, sometimes even exceeding it!)

Martin

The GPS chip inside N810 is a Texas Instruments NaviLink NL5350 chip that they recommend using with the OMAP2 chipset. It makes use of AGPS signal from your cellphone baseband chip, when available, but does not require AGPS. It is a pretty shitty GPS receiver as far as sensitivity is concerned though.

The newer MTK chipsets are at least as good as SIRF III, if not better, in performance. The GPS receiver you posted should work fine. I've read a number of posts on Brighthand and other forums from owners of that GPS, almost all positive. Brighthand has a review if you want to read it.

Re: Motorola vs. TI
Ooops, my bad. All those manufacturers start looking the same 8-). Given the experience people have with the GPS inside N810, although it might not *require* AGPS, it works poorly without it.