The Lowrance I-finder Expedition C fits easily in my shirt pocket and is both WAAS and EGNOS (don't think signal available yet in the USA) capable. Regularly use it for hiking (has topography loaded), driving, and the similar airmap for aircraft navigation. There is also barometric altimeter and barometer. And a magnetic compass, which works OK when hiking, but the compensation is bad when in a vehicle to the point of being useless. THe loaded data base has helped me find motel phone numbers, restaurants, and state parks, and exact street addresses. http://www.lowrance.com/Outdoor/Products/iFINDERExpeditionC.asp Zik Saleeba wrote: > The latest generation of GPS receivers look pretty exciting. As an > example the recently announced uBlox 5 claims to bring the cold start > down from about 30 seconds to 1 second - which is a huge difference > when you're sitting around waiting to get a lock. > > http://www.u-blox.com/technology/u-blox5/index.html > > Interestingly they claim that the system contains 1 million > correlators. I'm not sure how that works - it sounds like a lot. They > also claim 50 channels and simultaneous access to GPS, WAAS, EGNOS, > MSAS and Galileo satellites. And all this running on 15mW which is > about a fifth of the current generation's power consumption. > > With the small size, low power, sensitivity improvements and fast lock > times of these new generation GPS chipsets I'm expecting to see them > popping up in a lot more products. Cameras could easily incorporate > GPS to log the locations of all your photos. Watches with GPS already > exist but it's getting close to the point where commodity watches > could incorporate a GPS chipset just as an accurate time source. Or > your credit card could include a GPS to give you a more useful record > of where you made your purchases. > > Just dreaming I guess, > Zik > > On 12/5/06, Alan B. Pearce wrote: > >>> The benefit however is it's a more modern GPS chipset, to it >>> locks on cold start much faster then my "few year old" GPS, >>> and also can recover from dropouts MUCH faster. >>> >> This seems to be a benefit of having many more parallel channels in the >> receiver. More channels allows it to try so many more satellite combinations >> in parallel, so it finds them faster. >> >> -- >> http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >> View/change your membership options at >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist >> >> -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist