gps - pda - help!!

[lynneuk74]

Basically my boyfriend has a PDA and wants to use it for GPS Sat Nav.

I therefore bought a GPS receiver, off ebay, for him for Christmas. Was planning to use his PDA car adapter and just plug the GPS receiver into the PDA serial port.

However, when the GPS receiver arrived I read the instructions. They are in VERY badly translated English so I can't really fully understand them.

They talk about an 'optional' cable which plugs into the lighter socket and powers BOTH the GPS receiver and the PDA.

My question is, if I don't purchase one of these cables and just use a power cable to my PDA, will the GPS receiver need some sort of power source? Or does it just power itself from the PDA via the serial port.

Hope the question makes sense. Any help will be appreciated.

[wgkilla]

Hi there you dont need an optical cable at all ! you just need to install the gprs reciver and also sat nav software ie tom tom sat nav software and its as easy as that, ! i have a xda 2 with gprs reciever and tom tom 5 and works fine without any optical cable ! hope this will be helpfull to you.

Cheers Andy