The advent of GPS devices has led to the appearance of a wide range of products, from in-car navigators to all the GPS chips built within mobile phones. One of the most popular types of such GPS-enabled devices are trackers, which record the various geographical locations one has traveled to during a specific period of time, and this is exactly the case with the BT-Q1000X, recently released by QStarz.

This GPS tracker provides some pretty impressive location accuracy capabilities, since it can pinpoint a set of geographical coordinates down to 3 meters in 2D-RMS mode, and down to 2.5 meters when one of the assisting systems (WAAS, EGNOS, MSAS) is activated. After recording the GPS data, the tracking device can save it in GPX / CSV / NMEA / Google Earth file format, which allows users to process it according to their own needs.

QStarz's device can also carry out some other additional functions, such as a GPS-mouse and GPS receiver. That's possible due to the fact that it has also been equipped with a Bluetooth module, which makes it very easy for users to connect it to a mobile phone, smartphone or computing system.

After we've seen what the BT-Q1000X can do, let's see just how it can do it. Unlike most other similar products, which feature a SiRF Star III GPS chip, this particular product has been equipped with a MTK II chipset, which sports a very high level of sensitivity (-165dBm) and 66-channel tracking (this figure is a bit peculiar, though, since most similar products typically provide 16 or 24-channel tracking). Additionally, the device from QStarz sports a fairly OK battery, which provides quite an extensive functioning life of up to 42 hours (partially thanks to the power-saving features built within the device).

The BT-Q1000X GPS tracker from QStarz sells for approximately 90 US dollars (depending on the vendor), which is not that bad a sum, especially taking into the account the very high level of accuracy, long functioning time and extra features it can provide.


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