Quote Originally Posted by meledson
^^^ Keep the device turned on


You can thank Nokia for deciding to use TI (Texas Instruments) chipsets. They started using it on their first GPS phone (N95), and correct me if I'm wrong, they're still using it on the current models.

Of course some people aren't bothered with it ... but having receivers with TTFF's of less than a minute it was a pain for me to wait for my N95, so I use the "better" ones when driving.

Some device manufacturers have a feature for Assisted-GPS where the device can get GPS data from the network and hasten the TTFF. It all depends on the model if it has one, so check the specs na lang. It may even be called by another name, but Assisted-GPS it still is.

One of my receivers has the SiRF III chipset (w/o aGPS) and gets a fix in 20 seconds. It's almost ready after I put in my destination. And in the UK, that can be as short as the house number and 7-char postal code - no need to type the street name nor city (the postal code already has that info) ... and I bought that thing a year before the N95 came out of the shops here.

Quote Originally Posted by Snorkle
Who has the best price for NUVI 200? Nagtanong ako sa mga car shops, P12,000 daw.
Ginto pala presyo diyan. At today's exchange rate, the Nuvi 200 costs P5.900 in the UK and P1,000 more for the widescreen version (Nuvi 200W). Mas mura pa siguro sa US. Yun nga lang, the warranty's going to be a pain.