[OSM-newbies] Wiki documentation on GPS devices - please help answer some questions

John Sturdy jcg.sturdy at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 13:50:12 GMT 2013


On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Gerhardus Geldenhuis
<gerhardus.geldenhuis at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a shame you feel that way. I can't be happier with my Garmin. That
> being said it uses standard AA batteries and gives me the option of setting
> the type of battery, rechargeable or throwaway. A dedicated device should
> potentially be more accurate. but that is an assumption not a fact.

Well, you can have a hybrid arrangement: my phone has GPS built in,
but will also talk to separate GPS receiver over Bluetooth (I think
this is quite a common arrangement for phones with both GPS and
Bluetooth hardware).

__John



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