psp-290 user opinion and comments?

[deniska]

I've got my psp290 yesterday and it works good. In the past sometimes I've driven with my Hp pavillion and a crappy-noname gps-mousem, usb (cp2102 circuit) and with Microsoft Autoroute. That was FAR MORE precise and responsive. No need of satellite locking, supersharp positioning..
But we know, psp is a TOY computer, we cannot expect too much!
Anyway, just because I'm of the kind that pretend the best out of my devices, I noticed that if you isolate somehow the psp290 and the psp (with your hands, with some cds, with a block of lead or a faraday cage... whatever haha!) satellite locking time decrease dramatically, from more than TEN minutes waiting mapthis to start working... to less than 30 seconds!!
This means that the psp emits a LOT of radio interference that the psp290 gps gets all in his .. back.
Maybe it can help putting a foil of something between, or rebuilding the plastic of the gps with metal... Just try and you'll see that if you isolate someway the two things the perfomances will increase a lot.
I'll have to try with a mini-usb cable just to have the psp290 far from the psp.
If someone got a nice solution, please post

There is a thread, covering this.. i think it's called : psp290 tips and tricks..
there is also a premade extension cable for psp-290...
imho, holux2xx sirfIII modules are much better

[yenracer]

hey deniska, i was wondering which gpslim do you use? i was thinking of the 240?

[PDG]

eeeeee next time try spacing when you write buddy, anywho, i think i'm gonna drop that psp 290 and get the holux gpslim 240.

the 290 freezes too damn much and with the waiting time already for the sat to lock, it pisses me off even more wen i run it and the stupid thing crashes.

If the 290 freezes its almost 100% some Plugins that does this.

Disable any plugin like Popstation etc and try again.

[ruspa]

I've got a TA82 psp with 3.52-M33-3 with video capture plugin and that popstation plugin, the psp290 and mapthis05.. it crashed me only 1 time, when tried to zoom to the closest level (the very first time I ran the prog), then never crashed again anymore no matter zoom levels!

As I wrote, I know that the most of other gps are better but psp 290 is just too good lookin (very small, white, on a ceramic white psp ... ^__^ )