seidioseidio

Originally Posted by n1oty

Hi David, I just received a G4850 mount for my new Axim X51V and a G2500 mount for my older HP 5450 that I gave to my son. We've been running with them in our respective vehicles for two days now and love them. I got him the 2500 mount because the HP was already paired up with a Globalsat BT-338. The new G4850 mount is so good that I want to get one for my wife. Any chance that I could also qualify for this discount? I bought the other two mounts through SeidioOnline.com, but did not receive the email offer. Thanks. John

HI John,

Thank you very much. David Silver from our Office will contact you on Monday for details.

David Chang
Seidio
dsc@seidio.com

n1oty

Originally Posted by seidioseidio

HI John, Thank you very much. David Silver from our Office will contact you on Monday for details. David Chang Seidio dsc@seidio.com

Thank you for this consideration. I've already ordered an x51v for my wife, so I am looking forward to getting this mount for her. You guys have an outstanding product in the G4850. In addition to the two mounts that I recently purchased, I've had a Seidio mount for my Treo 650 phone for quite awhile now (purchased through Semson's) and have been quite pleased.

John

seidioseidio

Hi John,

Thank you very much for the good words. I am sure your wife will find GPS is much easier and simple with G4850. Seidio offers great products that are backuped by great customer service and support. If you have any questions, please contact me dsc@seidio.com or David Silver dsvidsilver@seidio.com. We will do our best to answer the questions you may have.

David Chang
Seidio

jing0124

Originally Posted by lawman

I agree with Jake. "Best" is extremely difficult to quantify among so many very capable GPS units out there. This G4850 mount has the SiRF III chipset and also has the latest firmware 3.1.1 (which has the fix for the jet-lag bug fix). You can't ask for much more in a GPS car mount for the price/quality/features + two mounting options (vent and gooseneck).

Hi Lawman,

Can you explain what is

This G4850 mount has the SiRF III chipset and also has the latest firmware 3.1.1 (which has the fix for the jet-lag bug fix).

What is "Jet-lag bug fix ? and Firmware 3. 1. 1

Why this is important ?

lawman

Hi jing0124,

See this article. It covers all the SiRF III chipset firmware revisions and it indicates what the fixes are for.

http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/t...TOPIC_ID=27925

Cheers.

gamichea

Originally Posted by lawman

Hi All, Over the course of the last 6 days, using the same tried and true procedure that I had with my older G2500 power adaptor, I tried to blow out my car's 10A fuse but failed with this newer power adaptor. After Day 6 of torturing my new Seidio power adaptor from the G4850 package, I have to concur that this new power adaptor does not have the previous issues, and is fixed in my new version. I've attached the pictures so you can see in attached pictures, the older G2500 power adaptor was version "04" and the newer G4850 is version "06". I can say that the new Seidio power adaptors works well to power the mount and seem to have fixed the previous older issues. Excellent job! Also, it is 3A rated. I've updated my G4850 review to reflect this. Happy Xmas!

Hi Lawman,

Please clear up a little confusion I have over here in the UK. As you refer to the Seidio cigar lighter plug as a power adapter does this mean the 12V to 5V transformer circuits are located in the power adapter or simply that it is a means of supplying 12V to the mount for the transformation to 5V to take place there?

I am very interested in the 4500 in conjunction with an Axim 51v for my first stab at in-car GPS-based navigation but wary because of all the negatives I have found about the 2500 on various sites.

Happy Xmas to you too!

Mike

lawman

Hi Mike,

Sorry, my usage of the term power adapter is incorrect and different from yours. There are no transformer circuits in the DC cigaretter adaptor. I called it a "power" adaptor because it connects to the cigarette lighter receptacle. Sorry for confusing you.

There are no issues that I know of when using the Seidio cigarette power adapter in the UK. I know, because I used it in Scotland when I went there on vacation, and the Seidio G2500 power adapter for the mount worked properly in the UK rental car that I had. Seidio has fixed the older power issues that their older cigarette DC power plug adapter had.

The Seidio mount takes the 12v directly.

Hope that answers your question.

gamichea

Thanks a lot, Lawman, and no need to be sorry, we all use the terms in common parlance in our particular neck of the woods. It'd be pretty boring, and no learning experience, if we all used the english language in exactly the same way.

Mike

heybhouse

Hey Lawman, I'm down to OCN5, iGuidance & Mapopolis. I'm leaning more toward iGuidance or OCN5. I like the OCN5 maps better but I thought I read it doesn't have street name other than destination, is that right? Anyone of these you'd recommend more? Thanks!

lawman

Originally Posted by heybhouse

Hey Lawman, I'm down to OCN5, iGuidance & Mapopolis. I'm leaning more toward iGuidance or OCN5. I like the OCN5 maps better but I thought I read it doesn't have street name other than destination, is that right? Anyone of these you'd recommend more? Thanks!

OCN5 does have street names shown on the 2D mode. When in 3D mode, it does not show the street names. Between the three GPS programs, I would go with either iGuidance or OCN5. The reason for these two choices is the ability to do end-to-end routing across all of North America if you have the entire NA map stored on a storage drive.

I presonally like the Garmin iQue myself due to ease of use and functionality, but you need a Garmin GPS device when using Garmin maps.

For NMEA maps, I think your best choices are either iGuidance or OCN5. I think they're both pretty good.

heybhouse

Thanks for the help! Any key differences you know of between iGuidance and OCN5? Key thing for me is how easy it is to follow (I don't want to look at the device and the road, especially if the weather is bad).

lawman

Originally Posted by heybhouse

Thanks for the help! Any key differences you know of between iGuidance and OCN5? Key thing for me is how easy it is to follow (I don't want to look at the device and the road, especially if the weather is bad).

Now, bear in mind I'm a Garmin user so I'm used to a lot of nice features that most GPS maps are only beginning to have. I guess you can say I'm spoiled by Garmin.

Key differences (at least for me):
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• OCN5 lacks street names in 3D mode compared to iGuidance (if 3D mode street names is important to you, then go for iGuidance)
• OCN5's bluetooth implementation is very smooth.
• iGuidance shows more screen when displaying the map than OCN5
• iGuidance supports route listing but OCN5 does not. Garmin already supports route listing, and Garmin's route listing looks and works much better than anything else. See attached picture of Garmin's route listing to see what I mean.
• OCN5 requires a lot of main memory free when using seamless all of North America map. It needs 27+ Main Memory else you might see some memory alloc issues. Otherwise, its pretty robust.

Not sure if the above helps.

Cheers.

heybhouse

Thanks for the info! Doesnt Garmin use a dedicated PDA? If I understand correctly, I couldn't add it to me Dell, could I?

lawman

Originally Posted by heybhouse

Thanks for the info! Doesnt Garmin use a dedicated PDA? If I understand correctly, I couldn't add it to me Dell, could I?

Garmin has a bluetooth GPS called the GPS10. The GPS10 is not a Sirf III chipset. And yes, you can add this to the Dell Axim. The Garmin GPS10 Deluxe package is what I got (as it comes with the same iQue PPC mapping software that you see on their Garmin PPC PDAs).

The GPS10 does not have the sensitivity of the SiRF III GPS units but it can do both NMEA and Garmin protocols. So, it means I can use both NMEA and Garmin mapping programs with the same GPS unit. But if you drive into the city, you will lose the GPS signal with the GPS10.

JakeRich

Originally Posted by lawman

Clip... The GPS10 does not have the sensitivity of the SiRF III GPS units but it can do both NMEA and Garmin protocols. So, it means I can use both NMEA and Garmin mapping programs with the same GPS unit. But if you drive into the city, you will lose the GPS signal with the GPS10.

Not necessarily. I use non-SIRF gps units in cities all the time. The only time I lose a fix is deep in the "canyons" of cities like NYC and SF where the sky is mostly obstructed. In other cities like Washington, DC, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas, London, Manchester, etc, that don't have as extensive or as high canyons, non-Sirf receivers work well. In addition, Sirf receivers can actually be TOO sensitive, giving a fix based on weak, attenuated and reflected signals when other units would give up. Unfortunately, the reflected signals may the fix be inaccurate, sometimes wildly so. These multi-path signals can cause the mapping software to provide commands and replanning that don't make sense given where you really are.

It would be nice to be able to deactivate that Sirf functionality in that case. You could in the early chipsets, but not in the latest. A weakness, in my view.