Nokia 6680

Over the last few months I've been playing a lot with my Nokia 6680. My favourite software add-on to it is the excellent TomTom Mobile.

I was lucky enough to borrow a friends copy when they had to go and work in the US.  Sadly, for him, TomTom Mobile does not have US maps. Good for me though!

To provide GPS data I use a Fortuna Clip-on GPS receiver. This chats with the phone using Bluetooth so less cabling needed. The Fortuna is useful in that it has an socket for an external antenna so I installed mine in the glovebox and put an antenna on the dashboard. This makes the car look a lot neater.

If you look on the TomTom  website you can see screenshots of the program in action.

In general it is an excellent peice of software. However it is not without its issues.

The main issue I have is that sometimes the software fails to talk to the GPS unit. I can see, from the flashing lights on the Fortuna, that there is a connection but TomTom Mobile doesn't notice it. Sometimes the connection can be made to work just by going to the "Change preferences/Show GPS status" screen. Oddly you don't have to do anything when you get to this screen, merely going to it can "wake up" TomTom Mobile.  However if that does not work then you have to turn the phone off and then on again. That is also the cure for  TomTom Mobile fails to start!

That aside it would be great if there were more up-to-date maps for it for the UK and any maps at all for the US!