Cingular Go Phone: Freedom Input Keychain GPS 2000 Review

I love this thing!To get an initial fix it needs some kind of view of the sky, after that it's amazing.I can take it into my back yard, let it get a fix, put it in my pocket, go inside my house and it never loses the fix!!

The only problem I had was configuring my ATT Tilt w/WM6 to work with it: There are no instructions with the Freedom 2000.So the lack of instructions is the debit, it's the reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5.

There are a few settings that need to be taken care of with your smart phone and with the GPS apps you're using. To that end I'm including some notes I made that hopefully will help anyone who buys this get going.

Do this first for using GPS Bluetooth Receiver on ATT Tilt running WM6.
1.Go into Wireless Manager and select Bluetooth.
2.Go to [...] to see how to config your com port and make a note of the com port number.I used a baud rate of 4800 and COM1 where the example uses COM6.
3.You're only half done now, the next step is to go into your GPS app and tell it what Bluetooth port to find the GPS Bluetooth receiver on.
4.NOTE: I have the Freedom 2000 and the Bluetooth icon will NOT blink 1/sec to indicate a connection till you have opened a GPS app and configured that app to communicate with it.However it will blink 1/5sec w/o connection so don't be fooled

Google Maps:
1.W/GPS rcvr on open up Google Maps, select Options>GPS Settings
2.Select Set Manually, select COM1, baud rate of 4800 and tap OK.
3.From main screen select Menu>Use GPS.If it's working the upper right corner of the screen will show Seeking GPS satellites and the 2000's Bluetooth icon will blink 1/second.

Garmin XT:
1.W/GPS rcvr on open Garmin XT app main page select Settings>System>RemoteGPS.The default value was GPS Intermediate Driver.
2.Select Disable to turn off the regular GPS connection. You should get a prompt with radio buttons to select either Use Bluetooth GPS, Use GPS Intermediate Driver, or User Serial GPS.To active the Freedom 2000 select Use Bluetooth GPS and hit Enable.The screen now shows Keychain GPS 2000 and the Bluetooth icon on the 2000 is blinking 1/sec.
3.Note: I've seen"Com0:COM0" come up as though the app thought this was an option for GPS.Just hit the Disable button and you can select the proper input.
4.Note: When my ppc is turned back on and I re-access Garmin XT it says "Scanning Bluetooth as though it's looking for the 2000 even though I've set it to use it's own GPS Intermediate Driver.It's not a problem and times out soon.

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Product Description:
The Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 is capable of connecting simultaneously to up to 51 satellite channels and has a solid working time of 10-hours. Ideal for connecting wirelessly to your notebook, PDA or Mobile Phone by state-of-the art Bluetooth technology. No software is delivered with this device, but there is an ever increasing choice of software available, some specifically designed for your particular handset and products from both Microsoft, Google and others are free downloads. The device is compatible with all of the wide selection of software packages now available at low cost for direct download onto a handset, including:- The AA, Active Pilot, BlackBerry Maps, CoPilot Live 6, Destinator 6, Gate 5,Google Maps, Mapquest, Memory Map, Navigation Mobile, Navman, Nokia/Smart2Go, Navicor, Route 66, Spot, Telenav, Wayfinder.

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