It’s not even like I was speeding.

So… the search is on for something new, probably a generic, boring Japanese saloon car.
On the up-side, I’ve been playing with a Bluetooth GPS unit that a client passed to us. It’s pretty neat - their software runs on a Symbian phone, pairs with the GPS unit and alerts you to upcoming blackspots, speed cameras, etc. It does the job it’s designed for very well within the limitations of its environment (you can’t hear a Nokia phone over road noise without amplification), but the software shows some rough edges - it’s obviously been designed by a programmer rather than an interface designer, and the commercial constraints show through (800k install, it appears to pull the entire UK database from the server, instead of just the database for the local area).

Technically it’s about as good as you could hope for, but I still think dedicated hardware would produce a better experience (larger screen, map data) for less money in the long run (the mobile software has a subscription model).

But still, mobile + GPS… hope nobody asks for the hardware back :) I’m on the lookout now for something that will tag a pic with lat/long as I take it, upload to a URL, and bundle the uploaded photos as a KML file.