Hi,
A bit more reading of web forums has revealed two things.
1) Yet another bluetooth GPS receiver has appeared on the market with a Lithium Polymer battery giving 16 hours battery life. They are coming thick and fast.
2) There are many people having problems with the bluetooth connection being intermittently dropped between the iPaq 2210 and the GPS receiver. Some people are having no problems at all but many are. My guess would be that its due to the new PocketPC 2003 operating system and drivers and should be sorted out in due course but for now...
It looks like these systems are not quite stable enough for our needs just yet...shame. Hopefully another month or two will bring:
a) Drop in price (possibly)
b) More GPS receiver devices with better battery life / dataloggers etc (definitely)
c) Improvements and fixes on the PDA side in areas of battery life and bluetooth connectivity bugs (likely).
If anyone else out there is experimenting with this kind of system, get in touch, I'm still tempted but will wait for some good evidence of reliability before taking the plunge.
Andy.
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