use GPS with map software

Your phone is enabled with a highly-capable GPS receiver that sends location information to a USB port on a PC, laptop, or PDA.

Note: No serial port connectivity is provided by your phone. Applications on the host device which are expecting to receive the GPS location information via a serial port must instead use a Virtual Serial Comm Port.

The data sent to the host device is formatted as prescribed in the National Marine Electronics Association 0183 V3.0 (NMEA- 0183) standard. As such it supports the following sentences: GGA, GLL, GSA, GSV, RMC, and VTG.

This handset is not a full NMEA-0183 compliant device supporting electrical RS- 422/RS-232 connectivity as dictated by the

NMEA-0183 standard. Consequently it's unsuitable for 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

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