Motorola I290 - Manual (Page 59)

53 basics
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
1 Slide open the phone's bottom
connector and insert a mini-USB cable
into the phone's bottom connector.
2 Insert 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.
3 Ensure no application in your host device
is using the created COMM port. You