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This week, my GoPass GPT800 Bluetooth GPS Receiver SiRF Star III from Amazon arrived. The plan was to pair this with my N800 (already paired). It was charged overnight and ready for use today. I didn’t get outside much, but it was able to lock onto 8 satellites even while in my den. Impressive for $35.

In the box:

1. Bluetooth GPS Receiver (about 1″×1.5″×0.4″ in size)
2. Li-Ion Battery
3. Car cigarette power adapter
4. USB travel power adapter
5. Mini-USB to USB charging cable
6. Software CD – I didn’t need this at all;
   • it contains the installation manual for WinME, etc. with some of the most impressive Engrish that I’ve ever seen.
7. Quick start pamphlet with the bluetooth code
8. (2) lanyards for the device (light/dark)

Walking around the house, it showed altitude, direction and speed. The numbers seemed reasonable. Even when not moving, just turning it changed the direction output.

I can’t wait to go hiking and geocaching or even get lost in rural South Carolina like a few weeks ago. Even if I don’t have the correct map, at least I’ll know where I am and hopefully have a POI nearby. I’m guessing that I’ll be able to place this in a backpack and it will still receive and BT connect to the N800.

Ok, so it works with the defacto GPS software on the N800 – Maemo-Mapper.
I pulled gpsbabel-1.3.3.zip off Freshmeat.net to convert from/to whatever format is needed for POI files.
I mirrored a huge number of POI files that I found through google. No registration needed. It appears I need to convert the POIs that I want into GPX format, move those files to the N800 and run a script to load them into the poi.db that Maemo-Mapper uses. It can’t be that challenging.