I've gone all Dervy.

Cheap! That looks very similar to what Tim Kemp's buddy uses.

And lets be fair, avoiding carrying around an iPod is a good thing, right?

Currently I keep on musing at this:

Kinda because I have a ScanGauge II space on the dashboard... ;)

I have a phone with a decent music player and 16gig of space. I nolonger=20 need and iPhone. The only use I have found is an iPhone PAYG sim in an=20 locked 3g dongle and an upgrade to the generic software.

1year unlimited (fair use) mobile broadband for 1 =A310 topup. After a=20 year bin the sim buy another for =A32. =20

It suits you sir.

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A space where Sid currently sits with his broken pixels?

Heh, my SID was missing 2 or 3 pixels, so I "fixed it"....

Luckily another came up on ebay for a tenner ;)

There's some delicate[1] bits in there.

[1] Too delicate for me anyroad.

My mother's 9-5 has El Sid, but despite the dead pixels apparently appearing in an 'They all do that, sir' fashion on thusly equipped Saabs, hers seems to be fine at 7 years old.

Not on the newer 9-3; Saab finally fixed their SID issues.

My original 9-3 had one dead line, but it was only dead when it felt like it.

Had a play today, wasn't fully calibrated then, is now. Drove to Tesco for fuel, then on into car park for some shopping.

Now have an XLS that I need to work on to understand and a .kml file that when imported into google earth plots exactly the route I took including the little squiggle through the petrol station.

Next thing is to have a look at how it mocks up as a dyno.

Hmm... Elvington quarter mile drag strip time..?

I bet we can encourage Tim Kemp to take his diesel up the slope too...

Heh, I wouldn't mind a go with that on my Touch Diamond, but I'm too tight to pay for the licence, for the couple of goes I'd have before putting it away ;)

Hang on, are you saying I can get an O2 PAYG SIM, somehow register it as an iPhone, stick it in my O2 3G dongle and off I go?

Where can I get said SIM card?

NM I sussed it, I've just ordered a iPhone SIM off eBay...

Yup, soemwhere between =A31 and =A33 for the sim. Add =A310 credit (use it for SMS from the laptop if you want). You get a years free web/wifi bolt on as an "iphone" PAYG user.

After the year, pay =A310 a month for the bolt on or cancel the sim and=20 get another.

It could end up getting cancelled as the T&C for the sim is for use in=20 an iPhone but enough people seem to get away with it. Just topup online=20 at O2 website.

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There are two apps on xda-developers. one is called gmeter or GPC (that I bought). The other one is free and looks more basic but seems to do more on screen. I think it is called Gforce.

Yeah I saw that; TBH if I get a couple of months out of it before they realise then I won't be bothered, I'd just get another SIM and use the £10 on texts or calls...

I'm guessing O2 don't ask you to enter an iPhone IMEI when you register the SIM?

From what I've read, if you stick in an iPhone and activate the sim=20 through itunes and put =A310 on it works.

Or if you topup online it also activates it. I just used the PAYG online=20 top up and all that asked for was the phone number assigned to the sim.=20 Even if it costs =A310 a month it is still cheap for unlimited.

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Found that Gforce. The G meter part works as expected but it only works in kph (despite having an mph option) and it crashes when you activate the GPS. It's beta I think, though...

Then it's not measuring g. It doesn't need to measure G since that is a constant 6.674 x 10^-11 N(m/kg)^2

But km/h/h are perfectly valid units for expressing g..

But not km/h