Tz Gps?

[a4kel]

anyone knows if can you use this on the TZ in US or Canada?

http://www.ecat.sony.co.jp/vaio/acc/acc.cfm?PD=24370

[nellem]

i doubt it... b/c the satellite won't work in US or Canada... unless the satellite will support to US or Canada

plus, if that's the GPS device, there should be upgrading or uploading for new roads or something
just like a car GPS, there is DVD and DVD has the program for GPS, navigator, audio, and etc.
car dealers say it's good to upgrade the navigator every 2 or 3 years. unless... it's hard drive system so it upgrades itself.

so my point is... No, because of the Satellite will only connect to GPS devices in Japan.

[a4kel]

o I just saw this device on Sony US and Canada site also...

http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/...0&tab=Features

http://www.sonystyle.ca/commerce/ser...ductId=1003710

the japanese site says it suports the TZ, but the US and Canada sites says its only for the UX, but model number is the same VGP-BGU1 though. anyone knows how this works? needs a software to run with the device?

[Nanaki]

It's a Bluetooth GPS receiver, like the one HP used to produce. All it does is sync with a device and relay GPS information, which software would then use and translate into locations based on the software's map data.

I had a HP PDA and Bluetooth GPS receiver, but I have not tried it outside of the US.

If I was to bet on it, I would say that yes, it would be able to pick up a GPS signal. After all, the Global Positioning System is global. The only assumption that I could make would be that the system uses 1 type communication, no matter where you are in the world. It's the only thing that would make any real sense.

You would still, however, need to purchase map software for your country, and the program would need to be compatible with the device it is running on. I've been able to run Navman and Tomtom software on my PDA, but I have not tried to run anything on a notebook before.