Product Description

The Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 Receiver can be charged in the car or at home. Ideal for connecting to your notebook, PDA or Mobile Phone by state of the art Bluetooth technology. This powerful GPS receiver comes with the latest in GPS technology, the MTK chipset can show your accurate position even in difficult locations. Works with all the popular mapping software currently available. The Freedom Keychain GPS 2000 Receiver is capable of connecting simultaneously to up to 51 satellite channels, as well as having a solid working time of 10hrs. GPS Specification: Chipset – MTK. 51 Channels “All-In-View” tracking. Protocol NMEA 0183/GGA, GSA, GSV, RMC, VTG, GLL. Baud Rate: 57,600 to 115,200 bps dependent on mobile phone. Frequency L1, 1,575.42 Mhz. Sensitivity: Aquisition 146 dBm: Tracking 158 dBm. Position deviation: <3 meters CEP (50%). 3m 2D RMS without aid. Velocity: 0.1 m/sec. DGPS: 0.05m/s. Rechargeable 350mAh Lithium Polymer battery. Working time: 10 plus hrs. Speed of locating: Cold start 36 sec. Warm: 33 sec. Hot: 1 sec. Size: 46mm (1.81in) x 32mm (1.26in) x 14.7mm (0.58in). Weight: 22g (0.77oz) Bluetooth Specification: Connection to PDAs, SmartPhones, Blackberrys and all suitable Bluetooth enabled devices (UMPCs etc.) via Bluetooth Version 2.0 Class II. (CSR BC04.) - 10 Meter range, using Serial Port Profile (SPP). Software Packages: No software is delivered with this device. There is an ever increasing choice of software available, some specifically designed for your particular handset and products from both Microsoft, Google and others are free downloads. The device is compatible with all of the wide selection of software packages now available at low cost for direct download onto the handset, including:- The AA, Active Pilot, BlackBerry Maps, CoPilot Live 6, Destinator 6, Gate 5,Google Maps, Mapquest, Memory Map, Navigation Mobile, Navman, Nokia/Smart2Go, Navicor,

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3327 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: Proporta
• Model: 5032
• Dimensions: 6.00" h x 1.50" w x 5.00" l, .0 pounds

Features

• Ideal for connecting to your notebook, PDA or Mobile Phone by state of the art Bluetooth technology
• MTK Chipset works from your pocket, hand bag or briefcase
• Works with all the popular mapping software currently available
• Can be charged in the car or at home
• Capable of connecting simultaneously to up to up to 51 satellite channels

Customer Reviews

Impressive.
I love this thing! To get an initial fix it needs some kind of view of the sky, after that it's amazing. I can take it into my back yard, let it get a fix, put it in my pocket, go inside my house and it never loses the fix!!

The only problem I had was configuring my ATT Tilt w/WM6 to work with it: There are no instructions with the Freedom 2000. So the lack of instructions is the debit, it's the reason it gets 4 stars instead of 5.

There are a few settings that need to be taken care of with your smart phone and with the GPS apps you're using. To that end I'm including some notes I made that hopefully will help anyone who buys this get going.

Do this first for using GPS Bluetooth Receiver on ATT Tilt running WM6.
1. Go into Wireless Manager and select Bluetooth.
2. Go to [...] to see how to config your com port and make a note of the com port number. I used a baud rate of 4800 and COM1 where the example uses COM6.
3. You're only half done now, the next step is to go into your GPS app and tell it what Bluetooth port to find the GPS Bluetooth receiver on.
4. NOTE: I have the Freedom 2000 and the Bluetooth icon will NOT blink 1/sec to indicate a connection till you have opened a GPS app and configured that app to communicate with it. However it will blink 1/5sec w/o connection so don't be fooled

Google Maps:
1. W/GPS rcvr on open up Google Maps, select Options>GPS Settings
2. Select Set Manually, select COM1, baud rate of 4800 and tap OK.
3. From main screen select Menu>Use GPS. If it's working the upper right corner of the screen will show Seeking GPS satellites and the 2000's Bluetooth icon will blink 1/second.

Garmin XT:
1. W/GPS rcvr on open Garmin XT app main page select Settings>System>RemoteGPS. The default value was GPS Intermediate Driver.
2. Select Disable to turn off the regular GPS connection. You should get a prompt with radio buttons to select either Use Bluetooth GPS, Use GPS Intermediate Driver, or User Serial GPS. To active the Freedom 2000 select Use Bluetooth GPS and hit Enable. The screen now shows Keychain GPS 2000 and the Bluetooth icon on the 2000 is blinking 1/sec.
3. Note: I've seen "Com0:COM0" come up as though the app thought this was an option for GPS. Just hit the Disable button and you can select the proper input.
4. Note: When my ppc is turned back on and I re-access Garmin XT it says "Scanning Bluetooth as though it's looking for the 2000 even though I've set it to use it's own GPS Intermediate Driver. It's not a problem and times out soon.

great product
works great. even while still in my pocket. once it locks on it just stays locked on. on the keychain, and so small, you never know its there and never forget your gps device. works with my samsung i760 and inav v4.0. highly recommended

Great when it has a signal
This is a great little product - fits on a keychain and is just about the size of my remote lock thingy for my car. There's also a convenient little quick-release that lets you remove it easily.

It's pretty accurate, and works even if it's in my pocket when I'm walking around outside. Unfortunately it takes some time to acquire enough satellites to start working (less time the more open you are, more time if you're in e.g. a wooded area or the city; range probably from somewhere around 10 seconds at best to over a minute).

In case anyone might find it helpful, I've used this with my laptop and Google Earth and a Samsung i760 smartphone using Google Maps, MS Live Search, as well as a GPS data collector that saves all the GPS coordinates to a file for you to import to your computer (convenient for geo-tagging your photos).