The new EMTAC Bluetooth S3-GPS receiver

Transplant GPS is bumping their EMTAC Bluetooth GPS line with a new chip set to improve accuracy; pulling location data from 20 satellites simultaneously and updating every second, before forwarding the data to your handheld or laptop over Bluetooth. They're saying this should give you the edge over other receivers in places where reception is usually poor, but the $150 price only nets you a 6 hour lithium-ion battery, so we hope you weren't planning on going very far.

[Via Yahoo!]

[Justin @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

this is just the reference SiRF Star III chipset
nothing special

[Keef @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

I was looking for a GPS receiver for my Ipaq, but it dosent have Bluetooth, can anyone recomend any GPS receivers??

and also, when i get the receiver, is there anything ens i will need to it to work?

like software for my PDA?

[Dweider @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Looks pretty nice

Does anybody know any recivers that work on mac? It would be great to have one but I don't know any that are compatible with a mac, or what software I would use.

[Rus @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Most all GPS receivers will work with a mac and I'm sure this one would too (because it is bluetooth) -- you would use GPSy ... or just go to versiontracker and look up GPS in the search.

[Brandon @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

I have one of these and I did some accuracy tests and all of them have shown that is accurate to 1.25 meters or less. I have can even get a GPS fix in my basement bathroom. To make it even easier, I hardwired it into my glovebox using leads from my cigarette lighter adapter so it always ready when I need it.

[Winterfresh @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

You are absolutely high man. There is no way this unit gets less than 1.25 meters. Maybe on 1 fix yeah. However, on most fixes you will be lucky to get 5m. More likely closer to 10m.

[Brandon @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

Winterfresh, I have over twenty minutes of logged data using Visual GPS to support my results. I can email it to you if you do not believe me.

[Stan @ Dec 19th 2005 2:31AM]

I'm looking to use this with my SE P910a Its a pda/cell phone what do you guys think?

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