conventional marine NMEA-0183 equipment use. Its intended use is for normal "terrestrial" mobile users who want to enable their USB hosting computing devices such as a PC, laptop or PDA with the phone's highly-capable GPS functionality.

Get Connected

1Slide open the phone's

bottom connector and insert a mini- USB cable into the phone's bottom connector.

2Insert the other end of the mini- USB cable into a vacant USB receptacle of your host device. A virtual USB Comm Port will be created on your host device upon successful enumeration of the phone as a USB Communications Device Class device.

3Ensure no application in your host device is using the created COMM port. You may need to ensure that

the created virtual COMM port settings are set as follows:

Bits per second: 4800

Data bits: 8

Parity: None

Stop bits: 1

Flow control: None.

4Start the GPS application on your host device. Set the GPS application to start accepting NMEA-0183 formatted data from the created Virtual COMM port.

5Set your phone to start sending NMEA-0183 formatted location information.

Find it: M > i> Interface > NMEA OUT > USB.

Your phone is now actively sending location NMEA-0183 formatted GPS data to your USB host device.

To stop your phone from sending location data:

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