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Satmap Active 10 Discuss the Satmap Active 10 device. Tue May 29, pm SimoninEaston. Tue Sep 14, am Eugene7. The one thing I do have a gripe with is, that if people want to use batteries in the Bluetooth GPS, then they're probably going to use rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries, and because Navman have gone for unadulterated raw power, you have to have 3 batteries. This means that whenever you charge 4, you've got one that you don't use, most chargers will only charge in pairs of 2 or 4 batteries.
If you prefer not to use the windscreen mount that comes with the package, then you can just rest the GPS Receiver on the dashboard.
Navman have stuck a piece of soft rubber to the base of the battery compartment. This allows you to place the GPS Receiver onto the dashboard and not have it slip around too much, and also keep your dashboard scratch free! Windscreen Mount. Navman have supplied a windscreen mount. It comes in two parts, the left part the suction cup mechanism and the right hand part the draw. The then slides into this via rails and allows you to hang it off your windscreen.
The suction cup and the draw need to be screwed together with two supplied screws that come in the Navman package. This photo is purposely upside down so you can see how the two parts join together. We didn't test the windscreen mount, the rubber pad at the base of the is good enough to stop it slipping around the dashboard, and I think most people will prefer to have it on the dashboard rather than mounted via the windscreen. Although this comes in at half the time that Navman quote, I suspect by putting a freshly charged set of Ni-Mh batteries in will take you close to the 30 hours quoted.
When the battery power is too low, the blue light that flashes beneath the power button will start flashing red. External Antenna. You should be able to use it in nearly all situations, but if you are experiencing signal difficulties, or you have a vehicle with a heat reflective windscreen, or even one with a heater coil in the front windscreen, this can dampen radio signals in general and also GPS signals.
With that in mind, Navman as with their sleeve, have also chosen to include an MCX socket on the Bluetooth Receiver.
This means that you can purchase an optional MCX antenna and place this on the roof of the car and run the cable inside and to the Bluetooth Receiver giving you the best of both worlds. You do want to try and stay clear of this on a BT GPS, as the main advantage is a cableless setup, and if you're thinking of powering it by the car accessory socket rather than batteries, and also using an external patch antenna, then is Bluetooth really for you?
The software installation was a little different than I had expected, mainly due to the installation of maps and activating which does differ from the Pocket PC version and had me perplexed for a short while until I read the manual. Following the on-screen prompts to install the Palm OS version was simple and once I followed these to the letter they did install correctly. Once the installation had completed of the core SmartST Software files, pressing the HotSync button on the Palm cradle then sync'ed the program across to the Palm T2 without a problem.
Installing the maps via the HotSync cradle like you would on the Pocket PC couldn't be done in this fashion, hence why a card reader is included. So what you have to do is plug the USB card reader into your PC and then install the necessary drivers for this, once completed you can then take your SD card that you would have in a Palm and insert it into the card reader and continue the installation of maps.
It automatically detects the SD card and allows you to select the maps that you want to install. The spare SD card I had available as it doesn't come with one was a mb SD card, and as you will see from the screen shot below I was just able to fit the entire UK onto a mb card. If you wanted to leave out Ireland and Scotland for mainland UK users then this will come in at The reason for this is that you are only licensed to install this software to one device and to thwart software piracy and pirates donning the black eye patch Navman are trying to make sure you adhere to this and activating a device is the best way to achieve this.
It does mean that if you upgrade your Palm device in the future that you may not be able to activate the software and you will need to contact Navman. In the past Navman have usually give 2 to 3 grace activations as they are aware people do change devices on a somewhat regular basis at least once or twice a year and this should help in activation for legitimate users. Activation usually is fairly painless but as you will see from the above image even with my firewall configured correctly I couldn't get a connection out.
This was probably more of a blip at Navman's Activation Server so you may need to persevere. The Palm T2 screen is actually square rather than oblong portrait. First of all when you run up the software each time you will be greeted with the Navman loading screen followed shortly after by the Legal Notice screen which basically tells you, that you shouldn't be operating it whilst driving.
Once you Agree to the Legal Notice screen you will be greeted by the menu structure. We weren't able to capture the sub menu structures due to what appeared to be a problem with SmartST Pro conflicting with our screen shot software complaining about lack of memory even though we had a huge amount available. From the main menu you have access to all areas of SmartST Pro. If you go into the Setup screen you will be able to set things like I tested this with a number of different Bluetooth GPS Receivers, and you do have the option of selecting Serial and Bluetooth and the ability to create a GPS log file for troubleshooting that can be sent to Navman for diagnostic.
Once you have configured all of the settings to your preference, you can then goto the MAP screen and zoom in and out and pan around the screen.
Wiggle it and it will. One thing that did strike me is that all of the casing really does feel and look plastically. Once all put together the GPS really feels as solid as a rock. One thing that's starting to concern us with the new Bluetooth GPS Receivers, and many on the internet is that most of them do use Lithium-Ion batteries, and these have a life span charge of charges eg days if you're using it on a daily basis.
After this, your battery is near to useless unless you want to leave it plugged in permanently in-car. Now most of the manufacturers are taking a line that in a year and a half you probably would have ditched the current model and traded up to the newer, better model, but that's just simply not the case all of the time. You can change the batteries yourself, but getting hold of batteries may be an issue. Why have a battery that's useless after charges? This is something Navman asked themselves.
Well done Navman! The one thing I do have a gripe with is, that if people want to use batteries in the Bluetooth GPS, then they're probably going to use rechargeable Ni-Mh batteries, and because Navman have gone for unadulterated raw power, you have to have 3 batteries.
This means that whenever you charge 4, you've got one that you don't use, most chargers will only charge in pairs of 2 or 4 batteries. If you prefer not to use the windscreen mount that comes with the package, then you can just rest the GPS Receiver on the dashboard. Navman have stuck a piece of soft rubber to the base of the battery compartment. This allows you to place the GPS Receiver onto the dashboard and not have it slip around too much, and also keep your dashboard scratch free!
Windscreen Mount. Navman have supplied a windscreen mount. It comes in two parts, the left part the suction cup mechanism and the right hand part the draw. The then slides into this via rails and allows you to hang it off your windscreen.
The suction cup and the draw need to be screwed together with two supplied screws that come in the Navman package. This photo is purposely upside down so you can see how the two parts join together. We didn't test the windscreen mount, the rubber pad at the base of the is good enough to stop it slipping around the dashboard, and I think most people will prefer to have it on the dashboard rather than mounted via the windscreen.
Although this comes in at half the time that Navman quote, I suspect by putting a freshly charged set of Ni-Mh batteries in will take you close to the 30 hours quoted. When the battery power is too low, the blue light that flashes beneath the power button will start flashing red. External Antenna. You should be able to use it in nearly all situations, but if you are experiencing signal difficulties, or you have a vehicle with a heat reflective windscreen, or even one with a heater coil in the front windscreen, this can dampen radio signals in general and also GPS signals.
With that in mind, Navman as with their sleeve, have also chosen to include an MCX socket on the Bluetooth Receiver. This means that you can purchase an optional MCX antenna and place this on the roof of the car and run the cable inside and to the Bluetooth Receiver giving you the best of both worlds.
You do want to try and stay clear of this on a BT GPS, as the main advantage is a cableless setup, and if you're thinking of powering it by the car accessory socket rather than batteries, and also using an external patch antenna, then is Bluetooth really for you? The software installation was exactly how I expected it to go and was identical to the original SmartST Pro V1 install. Following the on-screen prompts to install the Pocket PC version was simple. Installing the maps via the ActiveSync cradle was also easy to do.
I was just able to fit the entire UK onto a mb card.
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