I am really happy with my Qstarz BT1300S. It is small, light, very sensitive. It gets a signal in my pocket or in a bag quite easilly, sometimes also in my pocket inside of a house.. quite impressive.
Of course, Qstarz seems to be a compaby that thinks Windows is the only operating system out there, so support for Mac from them is non-existent.
Luckilly though, the CHIP used in the device is not unknown, so you can use the BT747 Java software for it. Neat program that works both as a J2SE and J2ME application, so you can use it both on you Mac and on you Java enabled phone. The java app is a Midlet, which unfortunately is not signed so you can expect to agree to lots of disk access, but other than that it seems to work just fine. The 2.0 beta of the program also supports uploading AGPS data to the device, which is quite neat!
The only problem I see with the program is that the part of running the app should maybe be cleaned up a bit, and also that the part of getting a track into the GUI for showing on the integrated OpenStreatmap map is very slow compared to conversion to GPX or KML /KMZ. Maybe something to work on... :-)
Of course, Qstarz seems to be a compaby that thinks Windows is the only operating system out there, so support for Mac from them is non-existent.
Luckilly though, the CHIP used in the device is not unknown, so you can use the BT747 Java software for it. Neat program that works both as a J2SE and J2ME application, so you can use it both on you Mac and on you Java enabled phone. The java app is a Midlet, which unfortunately is not signed so you can expect to agree to lots of disk access, but other than that it seems to work just fine. The 2.0 beta of the program also supports uploading AGPS data to the device, which is quite neat!
The only problem I see with the program is that the part of running the app should maybe be cleaned up a bit, and also that the part of getting a track into the GUI for showing on the integrated OpenStreatmap map is very slow compared to conversion to GPX or KML /KMZ. Maybe something to work on... :-)
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