Wednesday, August 11, 2004
A Road Warrior's Best Friend - the Holux GR-230 Bluetooth GPS Receiver Reviewed
Posted by Dave Potter in "HARDWARE" @ 09:00 AM
Set-up
Setting up the GR-230 takes just a few minutes and consists of pairing the unit with your Pocket PC and/or Bluetooth-enabled laptop and then installing the GPS Viewer utility (one installation program installs both the PC and Pocket versions). Once this is done, launch GPS Viewer and configure the connection by selecting a baud rate and scanning for a com port. You are now ready to open the GPS connection and test things out.
Figure 2: GPS Viewer - Pocket PC version.
Another documentation gripe I had was the lack thereof on GPS Viewer. There was no explanation of the other options and buttons available.
Figure 3: GPS Status.
With all of the public whining and complaining about Bluetooth in general, and configuration difficulties - I should point out that the above procedure went off without a hitch with both my iPAQ 4150 and with my Dell D-400 Bluetooth-enabled laptop. Finally a Bluetooth success story!
