Nokia 770 and GPS
Thursday November 10th 2005, 6:21 am Category: Nokia 770 accessories, Nokia 770 FAQ

A discussion on LinuxJournal brings up interesting point - can you use Nokia 770 with a GPS device to have some cool things, like in-car navigation and directions (provided you got the right software)? Russ Nelson suggested DeLorme BlueLogger (reviewed here), a $149 Bluetooth GPS receiver.


8 Comments so far

The problem isn’t the GPS receiver. They are very straight forward and can just output a simple ascii stream. The tricky bit is getting the right software to do the mapping. Actual intelligent routing and giving directions is even harder again. A very quick search on Google came up with this: http://gpsdrive.kraftvoll.at/features.shtml so I guess there is some Linux based software around. Maybe they might port to the 770. It would be a brilliant device for that given the nice high resolution screen.

Comment by Simon 11.10.05 @ 7:38 am

I am the main author of such an application for the US: RoadMap. It works fine of an old iPAQ 200MHz, has a Gtk GUI (among others) so I guess it would work as fine on the Nokia.

I am actually drooling over these news: I think I know what I am going to ask Santa!

Comment by Pascal Martin 11.10.05 @ 2:06 pm

Do you have a link to your app? I would be interested to see what you are doing. I used to work for a company that did GPS navigation equipment.

Comment by Simon 11.11.05 @ 1:45 am

It’s OK. I found it :)

Comment by Simon 11.11.05 @ 2:10 am

I developed a GPS application (with speed, slope, direction and so on) and such a mapping application for a J2ME mobile. That’s not even tricky.
The trickiest part is in fact to retrieve maps in such a way that id doesn’t exhaust mobile’s memory.
So, if it’s possible on a mobile it could be, at least, possible on the 770.

db

Comment by Dominique 11.14.05 @ 8:38 pm

Any progress on this?

Also, has anyone been able to install any software at all on a Nokia 770 yet?

Comment by mb 11.29.05 @ 11:24 pm

Any new news?

Comment by Fred 12.20.05 @ 11:21 am

I’ve grown a fondness for microsoft streets and trips. Is there anyway this is compatable w/ the 770?????

thankx

Comment by tdmajic 04.20.06 @ 3:00 pm
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