O2 Xda Orbit

O2 who have always been known for innovation with their ever developing Xda range have now excelled themselves with the O2 Xda Orbit. In the past we have seen slight case customisation as with the blue LEDs of the Click here to read the entire review

After reading Darren's excellent and very helpful review I have taken the plunge and am now an owner of an O2 Orbit (replacing my Mio 168 and Sony Ericsson Z600.) I am very interested in the 3rd party application used by Darren - GPSce and the ordinance survey map he showed. Were there any problems with port sharing? I have TT6 Europe installed and I know from past experience that TT is reluctant to share coms ports. (I have a copy of Navios from my wife's iPaqrx7520 which I might try as an alternative). Does anyone know whether it is possible to save Google maps to use with a system like GPSce? I do have the Google map application loaded but am very wary of high gprs costs!

Daron not Darren

I had no issues at all using the other GPS related applications along side with TTNV5 or 6 when I tried them, all worked perfectly although of course I was not using them at the same time.

Hi Daron

Great review, so good i've just upgraded to the Orbit. I took the oppertunity to download WM6 and Visualgps. My problem is i can not get VGPS to see Orbits internal GPS. Help

Hmm its ages since I looked at VGPS - what port have you pointed it at?

Hi
Serial ports, thanks now set to port 5 and its now working. So much fun in such a small box

Cheers

Glad you got the problem sorted out. Still happy with the small mightly machine I hope!

Hi All,

After spending quite some time, I decided to take the plunge an upgrade to an XDA Orbit!

My First impressions of it are great, it appears to be somewhat better than I first anticipated!
For starters it comes with WM6, not WM5, It has also come bundled with Co-Pilot software, - Version 7 may I add, which was delivered 2 days after I took my XDA, and included the software on a 1gb microSD card and car suction mount and in-car charger!
I took it as an upgrade on my O2 contract of £35 per month, handset and all software was free!

Hi hippy999, welcome to 4WM.
Sounds like you got a good deal there. We have lots of suggestions for things to do with your Orbit here and we will try to answer any questions you may have, whether big issues or small.