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I have a Fortuna GPSmart w/ integrated Bluetooth. Its one of the best GPS’s I have used.. Its reception and signal strength were greater then the Garmin Legend (I tested both of them out). Its pricey though, $250+ plus the cables… It’s a handheld unit, Bluetooth, serial and/or USB. You can use it with the cable and with the Bluetooth at the same time.
I drove an area with just the cable and no Bluetooth and I got 57 AP’s. All logged fine. I drove the same route with the GPS using Bluetooth (have a Bluetooth PCMCIA card for my laptop) and I still found 57 AP’s.. In similar tests I really haven’t seen any problems with it.. I usually stick it in my glove box, and I still get a pretty good reception, and maintain a lock on at least 5 satellites.
I would agree though that if you were trying to maintain a connection with a wifi device, I would think Bluetooth would interfere. But with the minimum amount of traffic of the probes, and the fact the bt hop’s channels so much – it shouldn’t (as far as I can tell) affect stumbling at all.
I would love to test it out with my iPAQ, but while the iPAQ recognized the GPS using BT, and I have used mapopolis and some other mapping software, ministumbler doesn’t recognize it.
josh
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Unfortunately, bluetooth and 802.11b operate on the same set of frequencies so your results may be degraded.
Marius
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Message----- Bluetooth? http://www.pharosgps.com/products/bluetooth/PT100.htm Mike
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