Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation or recording a route,
which method would last longest?

I already have a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver which I bought to use with my
previous pocket PC (it did not have inbuilt GPS). That GPS receiver has a good
battery and its own solar panel so it has a running time up to 30 hours, but I
don't know how the Bluetooth communication in the HTC compares with the GPS
with regards to power consumption.

Thanks in advance,
Philip.

Philip Green wrote:

> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation
> or recording a route, which method would last longest?

You'd really have to try it. There is too much variation in chipsets
for it to be feasible to make any absolute predictions and there
dont appear to be enough reading here for it to be likely that
someone else has tried that already.

> I already have a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver which I bought to
> use with my previous pocket PC (it did not have inbuilt GPS). That
> GPS receiver has a good battery and its own solar panel so it has a
> running time up to 30 hours, but I don't know how the Bluetooth
> communication in the HTC compares with the GPS with regards to power
> consumption.

"Philip Green" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>
> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation or recording a
> route,
> which method would last longest?
>
> I already have a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver which I bought to use
> with my
> previous pocket PC (it did not have inbuilt GPS). That GPS receiver has a
> good
> battery and its own solar panel so it has a running time up to 30 hours,
> but I
> don't know how the Bluetooth communication in the HTC compares with the
> GPS
> with regards to power consumption.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Philip.

Take a look at the following, it might reveal some ideas:

http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blogs/3/1184

Philip Green wrote:
>
>
> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation or recording a
route,
> which method would last longest?
>
> I already have a separate Bluetooth GPS receiver which I bought to use with
my
> previous pocket PC (it did not have inbuilt GPS). That GPS receiver has a
good
> battery and its own solar panel so it has a running time up to 30 hours, but
I
> don't know how the Bluetooth communication in the HTC compares with the GPS
> with regards to power consumption.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Philip.

Someone from HTC's helpdesk has now given me the, not so useful, tip that
there is an option in the menu to see what application is using most power:
Bluetooth, WIFI etc. I say "not so useful" because I've never seen that option
in the menu.

Regards,
Philip.

Philip Green wrote:
>
>
> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation or recording a
> route, which method would last longest?
>

I though the question was pretty straightforward but it took three messages
each way before HTC understood what I wanted to know and told me the Bluetooth
would use up the battery LESS than the inbuilt GPS chip.

Rod Speed wrote:
> Philip Green wrote
>> Philip Green wrote
>
>>> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation
>>> or recording a route, which method would last longest?
>
>> I though the question was pretty straightforward
>
> Yes it was.
>
>> but it took three messages each way before HTC understood what I wanted to
know
>> and told me the Bluetooth would use up the battery LESS than the inbuilt
GPS chip.
>
> Likely thats because those responding to the emails dont actually use the
devices themselves.
>
>


Your explanation is a lot friendlier than the way I put it in my mind.
:-)

On 11 May 2010 01:22:41 GMT, Philip Green <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Philip Green wrote:
>>
>>
>> Specifically: when using my HTC Touch PRO for navigation or recording a
>> route, which method would last longest?
>>
>
>I though the question was pretty straightforward but it took three messages
>each way before HTC understood what I wanted to know and told me the Bluetooth
>would use up the battery LESS than the inbuilt GPS chip.


That's interesting to know.