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Dang - you have to really trim down the size/quality of an image to upload it here. The box came with all sorts of goodies:

* The Bluetooth GPS module
* A USB cable for charging (it will charge with any USB power source.)
* A wall plug USB power source
* A 12V car accessory USB power source
* A strong flexible adjustable suction cup PDA mount for the car that actually fits my tablet

The receiver works in Windows, on any Bluetooth PDA, and [after some hacking] on my tablet with gpsd/gpsdrive. Sadly, there's no good mapping data for the tablet yet. What it WILL work with after that new T-Mobile SDA is released in the USA in a couple weeks is TomTom Navigator.

Waiting for Linux ports of good software is worse than watching paint dry: You know eventually that the paint is going to dry.

Although a lot of credit goes to the guy who ported GPSD/GPSDrive. I got it to recognize satellites and register the speed of me walking down the street. I didn't upload any maps to it - that's for my next "big hack" this weekend.

Any coders want to tackle a GPS project? http://tuxmobil.org/navigation_gps.html START THERE. And port zRoadMap so we can at least have TIGER maps!
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