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Now that you have found us we hope you will find our forums a friendly and helpful place to ask questions and receive answers. With over 380,000 registered users, we have one of the busiest satnav forums.

We offer unbiased reviews of all manner of GPS devices and you can be sure that we have tested every device we review, no PR re-hashes here, just honest opinions and in-depth experience from our team of respected editors and moderators.

We also produce the PocketGPSWorld Speed Camera Database, a speed camera warning service compatible with a huge range of satnavs. It is the most comprehensive database of its kind and now covers 40 countries. Don't take our word for it, take a wander through our forums and see what our customers think of our database and our service. Their feedback is better than any marketing spiel we can come up with.

And finally, don't be afraid to ask, if you need satnav help, want to install speed camera data, or just need advice on a purchase, we are here to help. Don't be shy.

News: Beidou Asia Pacific Could Be Running By Year End

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China is continuing to challenge the GPS dominance of the US. A global positioning system, developed by China, will be operational across the Asia Pacific by the end of the year, with a full global roll-out expected to occur by 2014, recent reports have revealed.

Beidou, China's rival to satellite systems developed by the United States, currently has eleven satellites in orbit, with three of these being launched this year.

Products which are compatible with the service have, according to the Director of the Advisory Centre of the China Association for Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Cao Chong, already experienced success in cars and ships, but so far fail to compete on a global scale.

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Posted by rob brady on Thursday, May 17 @ 21:10:53 BST

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The Latest Lifetime Members

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Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE Lifetime Membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.

Of the 43 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (10.053) congratulations are due for the following 19 members who have just been awarded a FREE Lifetime Subscription:

Bettinespeijer, dooks, elliott6324, Garfy539, gcp, Iaindk, janetsbears, johnny_g, kimwhyte99, Kritou, Midblue, olawton, reesd6, saqqaf01, scholes24, stephenbeharrell, stevenhk2012, thelight, vjentof
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Two members missed out by having never subscribed. The remaining 22 qualifying submitters were already Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: banger9365, bellyboy88, blackbeamer, bloby, CA_0227041230, CAA_0310233524, CAA_1130221413, casper256, cloggienl, ColinS, Gitsch, hubsy, JaTe, MaFt, marmitebcfc, MikeB, NdBuk, philipvarey, Quinny1, saltburner, sturmey, ttlowton.

If you are one of this week's lucky subscribers, the 'Lifetime Member' rank will be added under your forum name in due course. For any current Lifetime Members who would like the tag adding then please click here to make your request.

New Lifetime Members: If you have an auto-renewing subscription (any PayPal subscription from September 2008) then please cancel the renewal from within your PayPal account as you will no longer have to pay to download! If you have any difficulties with this then please click here to raise a support ticket.

Our thanks to those who support the database and continue to report sites and locations, this is the reward, and for those who prefer to steal and abuse the service, read this thread. We WILL detect you.
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Posted by maft on Thursday, May 17 @ 12:02:22 BST

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Competition - Win one of ten Oso Space Mounts

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Back in September of last year I wrote "It's hard to get excited at the prospect of yet another car mount. I've tested dozens over the years and whilst some are better than others, they've all used the same windscreen suction design which, for the most part, does the job, albeit with the occasional failure to grip."

But the Exomount, now re-branded as 'Oso Space mount' was indeed different and it did get me excited. It uses a patented suction technology combined with a polyurethane lined grip which allows it to stick to surfaces like no other mount we've tested.

To read more about Osomounts, see their website at www.osomount.com.

And now, Oso Mounts, have generously donated 10 Space mounts to give away in a PocketGPSWorld Reader Competition.

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Thursday, May 17 @ 10:24:25 BST

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Subscribers: The PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database Has Just Been Updated!

Speed Cameras
Version 10.053 - 16 May 2012

This release sees 163 static and mobile speed cameras added/removed/modified across the various speed camera databases. Please keep submitting all sightings of mobile speed cameras so we can keep our database up to date with active sites. Apparently-inactive sites are regularly removed from the database (note that these do not get included in the total above).

Please click here for the full breakdown of country, speed camera type and number. All members submitting qualifying reports of static/mobile speed cameras will be credited with lifetime memberships by 17:00 17 May 12.

The Garmin GPSR database (for older devices) is now up to date (22:29, 17 May 12).

Dont forget our RSS feed which is updated every time we release the speed camera database. Simply right click on the RSS image and select copy shortcut, then post the link into your favourite RSS reader.

You can submit new speed camera locations or submit changes to current cameras by following this link to the submission page and you can download the database via this link.

A beginner's guide to the speed camera database can be found here, and some installation instructions for most units can be found here.

Please watch for further announcements on the homepage or sign up to our weekly newsletter alerts which carry full details of future speed camera database releases. The newsletter signup box is located on the top left of all site pages. Your privacy is important to us, we do not sell on your email details.
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Posted by maft on Wednesday, May 16 @ 23:23:34 BST

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News: Government Approves New Speed Camera Roll Out

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Whilst numerous areas in the UK have seen speed cameras switched off during recent months, a new roll out of cameras has been approved by the Government - with Bedford one of the first places to "benefit".

According to reports, portable average speed cameras will be introduced to the area in a bid to improve road safety. The cameras will monitor the average speed of motorists over set distances and be fixed to lampposts.

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Posted by rob brady on Wednesday, May 16 @ 15:36:00 BST

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News: Indoor SatNav To Navigate Shoppers

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Funded by the German government, a new application has been announced to help shoppers navigate their way around large shopping centres and complexes.

The 'shop nav' downloads plans of the shopping centre using the internet, before translating it into a mapped layout of the building. The three-dimensional view is then used to direct shoppers, allowing them to navigate their way around busy complexes.

The system will run as a smartphone application and be accessed by scanning a QR code, utilising a minute navigation chip (which is planned for an official debut later this year) as well as a chip which monitors the speed at which shoppers are walking, as well as calculating the distance they are covering.

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Posted by rob brady on Tuesday, May 15 @ 15:04:18 BST

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News: LightSquared enters bankruptcy

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Regular readers will be familiar with the story of LightSquared. The US startup had planned to rollout a high speed mobile data network across the US using frequencies it had acquired from purchasing a satellite network.

But the frequencies they planned to use were adjacent to those already in use by GPS and there was concern that the network could cause issues to the navigation service.

LightSquared blamed poor GPS receiver designs for the problem and, whilst improved designs with better filters would resolve the issue on newer receivers, it was not a solution for those devices already in use.

With the FCC giving a firm 'No' to the plans because of the potential for interference, the one asset of value held by LightSquared, the slice of radio spectrum, is left valueless and bankruptcy was inevitable.

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Tuesday, May 15 @ 14:23:27 BST

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News: Hot Fix to CamerAlert for Android Version 1.3.6.601

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Due to an issue with permissions for CamerAlert on Android Ice Cream Sandwich we have released a new version of the CamerAlert app to address this.

The changes in this release include all the previous ones in 1.3.6.598 and 1.3.6.601 plus added permissions for BROADCAST_STICKY.

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Posted by Mike Barrett on Friday, May 11 @ 13:38:35 BST

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Subscribers: The Latest Lifetime Members

Free Lifetime Subscriptions!
Every time we release the PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database we award those subscribers whose reports met our qualifying criteria a FREE Lifetime Membership to the site. We will publish the user-names of those who achieved the award following each release.

Of the 33 unique submitters who were first to make qualifying reports for this weeks database release (10.052) congratulations are due for the following 6 members who have just been awarded a FREE Lifetime Subscription:

CA_1227231804, CAA_0904172812, dans_gps, DINNJO, selvaraj, thurka1991.


The remaining 27 qualifying submitters were already Lifetime Members. Our continued thanks to: AAUgie, AnnRsole, Barsnake, bloby, bugsy44, bw2020, CA_0216151056, casper256, Funks, gchell, grayfor, ikickass, jags, Jips, jonathan49, Landy_man, Lincol, MikeB, Minidish, Pipeliner, Quinny1, rjcb23, si_b1979, spsduncan, Steelbreese, tbone8599, TeDe.

If you are one of this week's lucky subscribers, the 'Lifetime Member' rank will be added under your forum name in due course. For any current Lifetime Members who would like the tag adding then please click here to make your request.

New Lifetime Members: If you have an auto-renewing subscription (any PayPal subscription from September 2008) then please cancel the renewal from within your PayPal account as you will no longer have to pay to download! If you have any difficulties with this then please click here to raise a support ticket.

Our thanks to those who support the database and continue to report sites and locations, this is the reward, and for those who prefer to steal and abuse the service, read this thread. We WILL detect you.
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Posted by maft on Thursday, May 10 @ 13:09:53 BST

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Subscribers: The PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database Has Just Been Updated!

Speed Cameras
Version 10.052 - 09 May 2012

This release sees 70 static and mobile speed cameras added/removed/modified across the various speed camera databases. Please keep submitting all sightings of mobile speed cameras so we can keep our database up to date with active sites. Apparently-inactive sites are regularly removed from the database (note that these do not get included in the total above).

Please click here for the full breakdown of country, speed camera type and number. All members submitting qualifying reports of static/mobile speed cameras will be credited with lifetime memberships by 17:00 10 May 12.

The Garmin GPSR database (for older devices) is currently 10.044 (25 Apr 12).

Dont forget our RSS feed which is updated every time we release the speed camera database. Simply right click on the RSS image and select copy shortcut, then post the link into your favourite RSS reader.

You can submit new speed camera locations or submit changes to current cameras by following this link to the submission page and you can download the database via this link.

A beginner's guide to the speed camera database can be found here, and some installation instructions for most units can be found here.

Please watch for further announcements on the homepage or sign up to our weekly newsletter alerts which carry full details of future speed camera database releases. The newsletter signup box is located on the top left of all site pages. Your privacy is important to us, we do not sell on your email details.
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Posted by maft on Wednesday, May 09 @ 18:16:45 BST

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News: CamerAlert 1.3.6.598 for Android released to Google Play

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We have just released the latest version of our CamerAlert application to Google Play appstore. The new CamerAlert app is V1.3.6.598.

Changes in this version are:
Modifications to the way Bluetooth is handled including BT Mono audio
Tips available on the welcome screen
Fixed some crashes when the app is not running
Added option for silent sound: Asteroid 1 second, Android 1/2 second
Modified app permissions


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Posted by Mike Barrett on Wednesday, May 09 @ 14:34:05 BST

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News: Bigger is better - TomToms whopping 6-inch Start 60

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If bigger is truly better then TomTom's Start 60 must be win with a chance of winning the crown.

Outfitted with a whopping 6-in screen, the 60 is the largest TomTom satnav to date and should give factory fit systems a run for their money.

The extra large display means bigger menus and buttons as well as the larger map display. It comes equipped with IQ Routes, Map Share, text to speech and a new dual mounting system that gives you a choice between windscreen or dash mounting options.

It's available now with a guide price of £169.99 with European mapping.

Source: TomTom

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Wednesday, May 09 @ 12:18:00 BST

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News: North Korea deploys electronic jamming again

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North Korea is up to its old tricks again. The North has been actively disrupting GPS and other radio signals since April 28th says the Seoul based Korea Communications Commission.

Jamming efforts by the North have affected more than 600 flights operated by South Korean airlines and foreign carriers. Shipping has also been affected by the disruption to GPS.

Safety has, so far, not been an issue with aviation and shipping relying on other navigation systems. North Korea has a history of jamming electronic signals. We reported a similar event in March 2011.

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Wednesday, May 09 @ 11:28:24 BST

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News: Speed Cameras Ready To Target Motorcyclists

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Devon and Cornwall will be ramping up their speed camera enforcement to specificially target motorcyclists throughout the summer.

Motorcyclists are said to represent only one per cent of road traffic but represented a disproportionate 30 per cent of road fatalities in the region last year.

The new speed camera campaign is being launched by The Peninsula Road Safety Partnership who state that there will be an increased safety camera presence across Devon and Cornwall at weekends and in the evenings.

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Posted by rob brady on Tuesday, May 08 @ 13:24:56 BST

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News: TomTom adds voice control with Speak & Go

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TomTom have announced two new devices that feature their new 'Speak & Go' voice control solution.

The TomTom Via 130 with a 4.3" screen, and the Via 135 with a 5" screen, can recognise more than 1,000 voice commands enabling drivers to input addresses whilst keeping their hands on the steering wheel.

The new Speak & Go feature helps increase focus and concentration by allowing users to keep their hands on the wheel,” says Corinne Vigreux, Managing Director of TomTom.

Both models also come with lifetime MapShare updated, Bluetooth hands-free, IQ Routes and Advanced Lane Guidance.

The TomTom Via 130 will be priced at £129 for UK/Republic of Ireland mapping and £149 for the European maps variant and the Via 135 will be £149 for UK/Republic of Ireland.

Source: TomTom

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Posted by Darren Griffin on Tuesday, May 08 @ 10:13:41 BST

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