Thursday, November 02, 2006

Review of the Holux GR-271 CompactFlash Portable GPS Navigation Receiver for PDA or Laptop

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The Holux GR-271 portable GPS receiver, in the form of a Compact Flash (“CF”) card, is suitable for use with a PDA or laptop. It works well with Google Earth and other available GPS navigation software. The small size makes it easy to use in a PDA while traveling or to carry in a pocket when not in use. The CD-ROM has the PDA and Windows drivers and GPS software, but not the navigation applications. While it would be nice to have navigation included, there is plenty of cheap or free navigation software on the Web that will suffice. This test used GPS 2 Google Earth for the navigation software because of its seven-day free trial and compatibility and a Dell Axim x51 PDA using the Windows Mobile operating system. Though the GPS is laptop ready, a built-in or external compact flash reader or adapter for the laptop is required.

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