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Your GPS kit has been shipped!!!!

I live in England but would love to use this in France as my 'map' and navigation tool. Will it work without wifi though?
 
Oblig said:
I live in England but would love to use this in France as my 'map' and navigation tool. Will it work without wifi though?
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Received my GPS dongle today and it worked very well indeed (tested indoors) with GPS Test app. For navigation I use Navfree as the maps are resident rather than pulled via wifi. You can download maps for UK and France etc.
 
Oblig said:
I live in England but would love to use this in France as my 'map' and navigation tool. Will it work without wifi though?
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Navigon works without wifi. It is not assisted either. I was in the car holding Ramzes13 tablet when we ran the test going to work. Navigon was DOBA. The tablet was seeing 1 sat till we put the dongle in which inturn the prime showed 14 sats using 9 of them.

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in order to use Navigon, i had to make a titanium backup of the paid version from my phone and restored it on my Prime. I do not think Navigon is cleared for use on it yet, which is why it doesnt show up.
The issue with most free navigation apps on android or ios is that they are designed for cell phone that have an always on data connection to pull appropriate data as needed and gets supported by ads.
Navigon being owned by Garmin already has navteq maps that get stored locally to standalone GPS devices. So what they do is import that map data to be stored on the phone's (or tablets in this case) sd card to be used offline. If you can go this route for the 49.99 usd app, i highly reccomend it, I use it alot for travel at work, a data connection is not needed at all for it to work but when you do have signal it will update weather and traffic on the fly and reroute as needed. I hope this helps.
-cheers
 
I submitted my application on April 18th... Status remains as "Your application successfully submitted" or something to that effect. I'm a little worried because I read in an article that ASUS will not be shipping dongles to customers with Primes not from the US or Taiwan, because they apparently didn't market them to have GPS capabilities outside of those two countries. I bought my Prime from Gamestop.com, and had it shipped to a US address. Problem is that I live in Japan, and had ASUS send the dongle to my Japanese address. Hope they comply and send it soon, since my Prime IS from a US retailer...
 
theandies said:
Asus says shipped but when I track it on FedEx it only says they've received the information from the shipper. WTF?
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Has your shipment info updated yet? There's at least 10 of us over on XDA in the same situation, mine is still nothing but label and Asus is no help at all thru phone/email!
 
redheadedguy said:
Never heard anything about GPS kit. What is it? My GPS is worthless, but don't know what to do.
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ASUS is providing a free dongle to address the problem of the GPS. You need to register your Prime (if you haven't already done so) and then order the GPS dongle through the ASUS member page. You can register or log in here: https://vip.asus.com/login.aspx
Once you've registered your Prime, you can clock on the tab on the side that says TF201 GPS Extension Kit Apply and Inquire to order the dongle.
Transformer Prime GPS Dongles Begin Arriving at Doorsteps – Droid Life
http://vip.asus.com/user/tf201gps_ext.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
 
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