[s-cars] RE: Bluetooth GPS

[Alan Woolhouse]

And what, Mr Payne, are you getting me involved in here exactly?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Payne [mailto:quattro at isham-research.com] 
Sent: 19 March 2004 16:50
To: s-car-list at audifans.com
Cc: Qlist; Alan Woolhouse
Subject: Re: Bluetooth GPS


> Anyone have experience with GPS systems that are Bluetooth compatible?

Hmmm.

Well - the long, lazy, languid arm of coincidence reaches out and smacks
you cheerfully in the mouth.

As it 'appens, as we say in the UK, one of the major Bluetooth players
is a company called "Cambridge Silicon Radio" - which has just completed
one of the most significant high-technology flotations for years.

And, as it also 'appens, the "Vice President of Communications" at CSR
(Alan Woolhouse) is not only a COMMITTED Bluetooth fanatic - but he's
also (poor, deranged soul) an ur-quattro fanatic and the owner of a late
ur-quattro 20V which yours truly (me) has spent some time underneath.

He positively _drips_ Bluetooth.  If it's ever been made, he's got one.

We had great fun when I took him home after a wrenching session.  I had
my Blaupunkt RNS 149 SatNav system active - he had the Bluetooth
equivalent.  It took me half a day to install my system - connections to
the reversing light switch, the odometer, etc.

He just dropped one box on the dashboard, stuck something in his ear,
and clicked something on his PDA.  Bollocks.  But ideal for rental cars
...

We compared the systems' opinions over fifty miles or so.  Much the same
- minor discrepancies.

He's copied on this, but as far as I know he's not registered.

-- 
  Phil Payne
  http://www.isham-research.com
  +44 7785 302 803



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