Navigation Kit for N800
 

I have recently bought the Nokia N800 Tablet to enhance my Nokia 6230 mobile phone and to basicly go anywhere on the net when I'm not on my PC. I run Broadband and a Network connection so whilst I am in the vicinity of my router I can work via my tablet.

I'm a newbie here and have just read about the Navigation kit linked with my tablet. Is it available in the UK yet? And how much is it so I can budget for it some time in the future? Thank you.

I'd just like to say that this seems to be a damn good site and may answer all my queries about my Nokia stuff :D

hugo65

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The Navicore kit should be available. Select UK and you will probably be given a drop down with cities, and just choose one near you. Or there will be online stores where you can buy from. Here is a brief overview of the navicore kit. I don't have it since it is hard to get in the states and it's a little expensive for a no so robust piece of gear.

If you install Maemo mapper you can download maps onto the N800 and use it there. Check out this forum thread for maemo mapper for installation instructions.

You don't need to buy the navicore kit, you can just purchase any bluetooth gps receiver and pair it with the N800 and use Maemo mapper for maps, it would work quite well...
I purchase a holux 240 and paired it with the N800 and it works well. It isn't as feature rich as the navicore, but with time and tweaks it might serve your purpose.

Hope this helps...Good luck,.

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Hugo, while you're waiting to get the nav kit try using Google Maps, it's free and it doesn't need a GPS, although of course that means you have to know where you are at any one time:

http://tabletschool.blogspot.com/200...s-to-find.html

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the navicore kit is a great piece of kit, we watched a guy travel 3000 miles on a motorcycle trip with one at the! redlegs is a legend!

http://www.womworld.com/nseries/2007...n800-navicore/

following the link, you'll get full user low-down on it, review and everything.

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Hi All
Great forum this is, been browsing through for a while now and it seems it is a real good addition to people using the tablets... no all I need is more IT-knowledge in order to be able to install Quake... well maybe some day :)

Anyways, what I wanted to say is to remind you all of the thing I have encountered while trying to buy the Navicore kit. What happened was that I bought all the parts separately and when the time came to buy the car holder, then there was a problem.

The problem was - and still is - that I can not get one separate N800 car holder from anywhere here in Finland. Can you believe, this in the home country of Nokia!? Well, now, after a looog trail of worthless efforts Ive been discussing with a supplier who imports from Sweden - I think - and that looks promising... but buying from Finland - no can do.

Dont get me wrong here, I do love my N800 and my Navicore software, just having a bit of a prob with using the said software in practise :)

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If you do manage to find a source for the Nokia Mobile Holder part no. CR-86 for the N800 would you post it on the forum please?

I bought a second hand N770 kit and the Mobile Holders are not compatible so I want one too.

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Yes, for sure!

Lets see how it goes. The last I heard from the said supplier was that they managed to find two models, one active and one passive. The difference there is that the active one has a separate jack for the power cord that goes to the cigarrette lighter. Then again, they continued that they do not have any price for either one and that the delivery time would be two weeks... lets see what happens.

Re: Navigation Kit for N800
 

With respect but your supplier is confused over the components parts. There are three items in the kit

1. Car Holder part no. HH-12 - common to all.
2. Mobile Holder part no. CR-86 - specific to the N800
3. Car Charger - common to both

The car charger plugs into the N800 and is just the normal cigar plug one end, the small pin the other with coiled lead in between, on eBay for £5.

1. and 3. can be purchased very easily, 2. is the problem.

There are no 'actve' and 'passive' models so your supplier is totally off the track. It looks like this is not going to happen I'm afraid.

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Perhaps the supplier is referring to an after market holder made for Pro-Clip I believe... There is a thread on here about it somewhere... Try searching "proclip" or other spelling/character variants.

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Yep, Im not sure at all whether the holder in q is a Nokia model or not.

It has more than one parts so it migt well be. On the other hand the active/passive choises points to another direction. Well just have to see what happens with that supplier. The supplier in q sent me the above mentioned info with pictures of the holders and those did look like they would hold the N800. However the fact that they didnt even have a price for the thingies has me a bit worried...

Im hoping for further info next Monday. Ill report back here as soon as the thing goes further.

Re: Navigation Kit for N800
 

ARock, Is this what you are looking for?
http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/10356.htm
This is the Car Holder HH-12 that affixes to the windscreen

The difficult component to find is the Mobile Holder CR-86 which holds the N800 and screws on to the Car Holder HH-12.

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Yep, Im looking for that and the part to which you can mount the N800 - or any alternative holder there might be.

At this moment I do not have any part of the N800 holder as the Nokia here in Finland does not sell that or any part of that. Or actually Im not 100% sure whether they sell that thing which goes to the car wind shield but in any case that does not help much as they are definetly not selling the actual N800 -mount that goes into the wind shield part. Ive checked the situation with the Nokia Flag Ship Store and they said that no can do. Not even as spare part sales.

I actually referred to the same page you did when I was looking for the holder parts here in Finland by emailing various suppliers and to my query all the local suppliers said that youll just have to buy the Navicore kit in order to get the holder (i.e. the 2 parts). Sad but true, as one famous song says :)

Now Ill just have to see what comes out of the negotiations with this one store who - apparently - imports from Sweden. As said before, they were of the opinion that the holder they have is N800 compatible and it did look like it would be... lets see.

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There's a lot of cheap car mounts on ebay which claim to be good for the n800. I cannot say if they actually are...

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For whatever reason Nokia just won't make available N770/800 accessories to be purchased separately. Just look at the stylus mess for starters.

Refer to the retailer link above you will see Mobile Holders for a whole raft of Nokia phones, so my not for the IT's?

Things get lost, broken, stolen, N770 owners upgrade to N800's, so why can't we buy these things?

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My words exactly, its just unbelievable. The guys buying the Navicore kit better take very good care of their holders :)

I mean I never ever thought I would run into trouble by buying the navigation kit parts separately. I bought the N800 as second hand and I already had the GPS thingy from using it with my Nokia mobile so obviously I just bought the Navicore DVD and thought ok Ill just buy the car holder next and thatll be it... ohh how wrong was I there!

And besides us, I do believe theres a whole bunch of other people out there without the Nokia car holder at the moment...

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Thanks, have to check that out if my current plan fails!