Customer Reviews

Gps USB Navigation Receiver By Ambicom

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I bought this as a replacement for a PC GPS that burnt out after several years of hard use, and this one just does not cut it. It tends to lose lock with the sats very easily, the position it does give is often running 100+ meters off (for those that know what it means, I think the thing is usually pulling a FOM 6 or 8... wide margin of error), and the body is so cheaply made that after a month, the case has split.

Get something else for your GPS needs.

it might for you. I tried using it on Vista, and no go. However, I downloaded a driver from US Global, and that worked, for a while. Vista is just to weird a system for things this out of date. For XP or earlier, it would probably be ok. I finally had to return it to Amazon because I grew tired of always hunting for it.

I've had a couple of these and use them for lat/long tracking in mobile engineering applications. I just had one run for five years and am replacing it. I've used Pharos units, as well as Globalsat BU353s. The Microsoft labelled Pharos units are far less sensitive, and accurate, and if you can get a Globalsat to last a year, you're lucky.

I didnt realize it had a magnet mount built in . Not a good thing on a boat as the magnet may interfer with the accuracy of the boat compass . the info on the unit doesnt tell what kind of mount it has. it also has a hard time acquiring the signals from the satellites and only locks onto 3 out of 11 sats.

I recently purchased several of these. About half of them work and are receiving positions even though they have the QC Pass sticker. Also, after installing the driver it is flaky and sometimes you have to install it multiple times. It is not a straight forward, install once situation. I am probably going to look for a different unit to purchase in the future as we ship these to clients.

It's a low cost gps solution. I use it on my small laptop while I'm going on a trip. It works fine, easy to use with map point/Microsoft st&tp.
I saw it on a police patrol car, which it can tell AmbiCom GPS-USB is able to provide the accurate gps position for our police officer to do their job.

I have a new laptop with Vista. This company did not have a driver for Vista yet.