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Communications ICs (Wireless)
News Release from: u-blox | Subject: ATR0635
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2007
Single-chip GPS finds home in Bluetooth
mouse
High-performance Bluetooth GPS mouse provides extremely reliable positioning in a range of environments for extraordinarily low power usage.
German positioning products manufacturer Navilock has chosen a GPS chip developed by u-blox to power a high-performance Bluetooth GPS mouse Navilock's BT-451 mouse acts as an external GPS receiver with its own power source that wirelessly connects to Bluetooth-enabled devices such as PDAs, mobile phones and UMCPs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 20 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Bluetooth-enabled devices only connect to it when positioning functionality is required, optimising battery times for both the GPS mouse and the device connecting to it.
The BT-451 also boasts excellent tracking performance due to its powerful antenna, which greatly outperforms the smaller antennas typical of GPS receivers integrated into consumer handheld devices, and is small enough to slip into a pocket or attach to a belt clip.
"This is an extraordinarily elegant solution that addresses simple user requirements in a small, practical product and overcomes many of the limitations of traditional device-based positioning", says Armin Boeshenz, Area Sales Manager for u-blox.
"By placing our state of the art GPS technology in a portable external product combined with an optimised antenna design, the BT-451 provides extremely reliable positioning in a range of environments for extraordinarily low power usage".
The high-sensitivity ATR0635 single-chip GPS device, with its award winning SuperSense indoor GPS functionality, makes the BT-451 capable of accurately tracking outdoors as well as indoors, where most GPS receivers lose the much weaker indoor signals.
"Customers are tired of lousy GPS performance".
"We chose u-blox' GPS chip because its high sensitivity receiver ensures uninterrupted, accurate tracking even in the most challenging signal environments".
"We are delighted to have found such a reliable, high-performance GPS receiver for our products", says Frank Kautz, Product Manager at Navilock.
The BT-451 is available at major retail stores across Europe.
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