This isn’t the first GPS for iPod touch to be released. Orange Gadgets has the iGPS360 and xGPS is on Cydia.

I’t works pretty well.

(no i don’t work for them)

Posted at 2:16 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by Jay

Should have been built into the iphone from day one…my five year old palm treo worked just fine out of the box with an external bluetooth GPS.

Posted at 3:21 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by davr

I agree davr, my Nokia N800 has a bluetooth which is linked to earthmate bt-20, better than a garmin, especially in rural areas.

Posted at 3:41 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by aztraph

Costs about a $100 for a decent sirfIII bt receiver.
For not much more you can get a dedicated device.

Posted at 7:43 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by Gabriel

Hack-a-day is confused. The big breakthrough with Roqy is that the developer for it was able to use the internal bluetooth in the iPod touch to connect to a bluetooth GPS. No dongle required!

Posted at 7:59 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by Ned Scott

Wow!

It’s like I’ve been transported back in time four or five years!

Welcome to…well…the present. :|

Posted at 8:23 pm on Oct 9th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

Wow. Well, I guess this is news. But other phones have been able to do this for years now. Face it – the iPhone is an interesting device and can do a lot of neat things, but Apple has crippled it quite badly. It could do so much more. But at the moment I can do simple things with my Nokia 5220 phone (at a quarter of the price) that the iPhone cannot do e.g send contacts over Bluetooth.

Posted at 4:40 am on Oct 10th, 2009 by Ian Tester

This also works for the Nokia Internet Tablets. Been Geocaching with my N800 for 18 months. The free Geo-code programs also perform direction+range calculations, which is nice.

Posted at 10:51 am on Oct 13th, 2009 by TheFu

The big breakthrough regarding external GPS with the iphone / ipod touch isn’t the capability technology, it’s that the capability and technology was integrated regardless or in spite of Apple.

Apple needs to realize that their big brother antics are 1) alienating their customers and 2) the biggest obstacle to more mainstream (read business) acceptance.

Posted at 3:32 pm on Nov 7th, 2009 by Post Master

This is best news for who want to use this External GPS facility on their i-pod or i-phone I am waiting for this facility Thank you for this post it has very useful information..please keep posting like this with this useful information

Posted at 12:33 am on Nov 12th, 2009 by dsi r4

This is brilliant… Would you be able to use a mobile phone with built in GPS as an external GPS antenna?

I have a new Nokia E72 (work mobile) and it would be great if this could supply my Ipod Touch with the GPS signal it needs.

Posted at 3:27 pm on Nov 17th, 2009 by The_hairy_whale