Bluetooth Upgrade?

[Paradox]

http://www.nigelibrown.pwp.blueyonder.co.u...ducts/index.htm

bluetooth upgrade?

so they will upgrade a gp2x hardware so it can use bluetooth?

 

[PSyMastR]

Ya, I think so. I really dont trust them. I'de rather do it myself. Friggen 40 GBP. Thats like $100 USD. Crazy!

 

[Minkoff]

No, there aren't paypal links for that one.

 

[green1152]

Looks like it's an idea that will soon be out.. hopefully. There's much potential for this.. but yeah, 100 buckaroos is kind of expensive.

 

[chris_r]

Ya, I think so. I really dont trust them. I'de rather do it myself. Friggen 40 GBP. Thats like $100 USD. Crazy!

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No its more like $70

 

[nickspoon]

Ya, I think so. I really dont trust them. I'de rather do it myself. Friggen 40 GBP. Thats like $100 USD. Crazy!

No its more like $70

Approximately $70.19 as of this post.

 

[Paradox]

ack sorry, i accidentily posted this in the news zone but it wasnt meant to be news..i didnt think a mod would accept it as news anyway.

 

[nigelibrown]

The GP2x Bluetooth will be available soon, the first two units we built cost in excess of 80 GBP or 140 USD. That was just the modules not the connectors case etc... work it out yourselfs.

"PSyMastR Ya, I think so. I really dont trust them. I'de rather do it myself. Friggen 40 GBP. Thats like $100 USD. Crazy!"

PSyMastR, comment noted I will remember your untrustworthyness! We have many hundreds of satisfied customers in fact we have never recieved a complaint from a customer in two years

 

[PSyMastR]

The GP2x Bluetooth will be available soon, the first two units we built cost in excess of 80 GBP or 140 USD. That was just the modules not the connectors case etc... work it out yourselfs.

"PSyMastR Ya, I think so. I really dont trust them. I'de rather do it myself. Friggen 40 GBP. Thats like $100 USD. Crazy!"

PSyMastR, comment noted I will remember your untrustworthyness! We have many hundreds of satisfied customers in fact we have never recieved a complaint from a customer in two years

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I dont mean it like that. I mean that I only let myself mod my own hardware, never anyone else. I dont trust the validity of it. Im just saying for my own personal experiences.

 

[codesmith]

I'm guessing this an internal mod where we'd send you our units and you'd put extra stuff in them. How would this affect the guarantee? have you struck some sort of deals with the other dealers where they trust you not to break the units (since you've been doing this sort of thing for a while), or would the guarantee be voided by this upgrade? Given how easy it is to accidentally brick a gp2x, I'm not sure too many will be willing to void their guarantees to get bluetooth.

 

[nigelibrown]

Its an external upgrade, plugs into the ext port. However I will fit some internally just because it can be done

Bluetooth module

Toyz 4 Boyz

 

[Reaperman93010]

is it a difficult upgrade? (internal)
will there be a kit option?

or is it the exact same as the external one, just wired inside? (say we purchased and opened an external bluetooth box)

 

[green1152]

good questions.. I'd like to know as well.

P.S.

Will there ever be a wifi?

If not, what is the aproximate range for this bluetooth device?

 

[trooper]

good questions.. I'd like to know as well.

P.S.

Will there ever be a wifi?

If not, what is the aproximate range for this bluetooth device?

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10 metre range with bluetooth (Depending on environment).

Wifi could be a possibility via SDIO (The SD card slot), If drivers for the GP2x become available.

Trooper

 

[nickspoon]

Wifi could be a possibility via SDIO (The SD card slot), If drivers for the GP2x become available.

Problem with SDIO is we'd need some sort of SD hub, as we can't put much on the NAND and most SDIO WiFi cards have no internal storage.

 

[Digital Awakening]

Bluetooth is nice and it's nice to be able to connect more devices but damn that's one bulky device. Would be very nice with an internal device. Maybe in the future you can sell pre-modded units?

So, what's the transfer speed for BT?

 

[DynaMight]

Parts of me think that bluetooth is a bit pants but other parts think that it's great for multiplayer and can actually be used for internet access, plus all the other devices you can attach could be usefull (GPS anyone?). It's pretty useless if you're planning on swapping big files though.


Will it be 10m or 100m?

Edit: I can only get 40-50k/sec from 100m BT dongle and mobile phone (latest K750i, older phones crawled at 5k/sec)

 

[Eolair]

With bluetooth you get max 721Kbit/s download and 57.6Kbit/s upload asymmetric connection or 432.6Kbit/s both ways (symmetric connection). But I think the serial port is the bottleneck here. It would be interesting to know how fast it is. If it's a RS-232 port I would be surprised if it could handle even 115kbit/s.

 

[slygamer]

Using a serial cable for terminal access to the GP2X uses 115k2 8n1, so yes they are capable of 115k2.

 

[icurafu]

Mine takes a few hours to copy 80mb to my Sony s700i.

I think sony phones suck at BlueTooth.

Or atleast the do in my experiance.

I get better performance from my Motorola A920, where performance was so bad, Motorola locked the functionality.