After months of pondering and researching on the net, I’ve decided to take a plunge into the gps world by getting a gps receiver. Well my plan was to use the least amount of money to get maximum amount of fun. total cost, rm 2++ for the GPS receiver, the PDA was bought 2nd hand long time ago and the software and maps are freely available from the good old internet
Here’s the picture of the receiver, Holux M-1000 bluetooth gps receiver. It has one single ON/OFF button on it, to use is very simple, just turn the receiver on and place it under a open sky area and let it search for the gps signal. It’ll automatically lock on to the available orbiting satellite normally under a minute or so. The GPS receiver can then be paired with the Windows Mobile (WM) PDA. My PDA, IPAQ 4150 is running on WM2003 and using a broadcomm bluetooth. some info on the holux m-1000 :


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