Holux GR 236 GPS
I just ordered this bad ass little gadget off of eBay - it is a bluetooth GPS receiver. But no ordinary bluetooth GPS receiver: with 9 hours of battery life, bluetooth & USB, less than 2 ounces - it fell immediately into my "must have tiny gadget" category (on, and as an added bonus, it can perform 60,000 feet high, moving 700 knots, while pulling up to 4Gs - if I wanted to use my Holux + Sony T laptop to get driving directions while renting a Soviet MIG fighter jet, say).
I discovered it while trolling the internet for how to GPS tag my digital photos. Sadly, things aren't there yet, although I could use this device (using a USB-to-RS232 cable) with my Nikon D1-X, but the Canon website doesn't even have a MATCH for GPS - so no hope of a bluetooth enabled Digital Elph in the nearterm, I guess. Which sucks - I would definitely carry the Holux with me everywhere, and then I would have a permanent geocoding of all the pictures I took.
Hello, it's 2005, what the heck is wrong with all these camera folks - bluetooth & NMEA GPS protocol support, people, let's get to it!
I stole the specs from the eBay merchant's page and reformatted them so I could read them, they are in the full body of the entry...
Holux GR 236
General Stats
- Tracks up to 20 satellites
- Snap Start: <3 sec(at < 25 minutes off period)
- Update rate: 1 HZ
- Antenna Type: Built in Patch Antenna
- Minimum signal tracked: -159dBW
- Dimension: 46.3 × 67 × 19 mm
- Weight: < 56g
- Lithium-ion battery lasts for more than 9 hours of use
- Operation Temperature: -10C to + 60C
- Store Temperature: -20C to + 85C
- Operation Humidity:5% to 95% No condensing
Position Accuracy Non DGPS (Differential GPS)
- Position: 5 - 25 m CEP without SA
- Velocity: 0.1m / sec
- Time: 1 usec sync GPS time
EGNOS/WAAS/Beacon
Position: < 2.2 m, horizontal 95 % of time
< 5 m, vertical 95 % of time
Acquisition Time
- Reacquisition: 0.1 sec. averaged
- Hot Start: 8 sec. averaged
- Warm Start: 38 sec. averaged
- Cold Start: 45 sec. averaged
Protocol & Interface
- Compatible with Bluetooth devices with Serial Port Profile (SPP)
- Bluetooth™ version 1.1 compliant
- Bluetooth™ Class 2 operation (up to 10 meter range)
Output terminal: Mini-USB (TTL Level)
- NMEA Protocol Output : V 2.2
Baud Rate: 9600 bps
Data Bit: 8
Parity: N
Stop Bit: 1
- Output Format :
Standard : GGA, GSA, GSV, RMC
Optional : GGL, VTG, SiRF Binary
Dynamic Conditions
- Altitude: 18,000 m ( 60,000 feet ) max
- Velocity: 515 m/sec ( 700 knots ) max
- Acceleration: ±4G, max
- Jerk: 20 m/sec, max