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Monday, May 19, 2008

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OQO Announces New GPS Accessory

- Sierra Modro

OQO is announcing support for one of the most frequently requested accessories for the OQO Model 02, a GPS attachment. The Garmin Mobile PC is a very small USB based GPS unit that includes route planning and turn-by-turn spoken instructions, just like dedicated GPS units. I'll be trying this out over the next few days and I'll let you know how it works.

Not a lot of details yet. It comes with the GPS unit, suction cups to mount it, and a DVD to install the software. Looks really straightforward. I have a nice dedicated GPS unit, the TomTom GO 720, so it will be interesting to compare how well they route and speak.

The Garmin Mobile PC MSRP is $99.99. It's not up on OQO's site yet but should be shortly. OQO's site is now listing this.

What kinds of questions do you have about the GPS unit as I play with it?

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5/19/2008 11:53 PM MST  

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Tuesday, May 20, 2008 3:00:09 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Thats a good price for a GPS receiver + routing software.
Cant imagine that the OQO is the best device for this without a touchscreen.

Regards
Steve.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:31:25 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I was just going to say, now if it only had a touchscreen.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 8:25:29 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
So what's the difference between this and the other USB GPS units out there, like the Microsoft Streets and Trips model? Does the OQO not work with them, or is it just that this is the first one OQO is officially supporting/endorsing?
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 1:16:35 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
I'm just starting to get into it, but apparently Garmin did some customizations to the software to optimize the usability on the OQO small screen. Don't know if the software optimizations are in every Garmin or just ones you get from OQO, but it seems like the small screen optimizations would be beneficial to all small devices.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 5:14:41 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)
Garmin Mobile PC is a nice software. Some users have commented they wish Garmin would include OSK in future versions of the program.
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