On Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:52:24 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Some day I may buy an Oudie, but for now, my $100 Streak and FREE
software kinda beats the snot out of it.

IIRC the Oudie runs under Windows Mobile 6: the Vertica V2 and
GliderGuider certainly do, as does the Mio S3747, which uses a
transreflective display.

Since M$ has discontinued all support for WM 5 and 6, almost every PNA
using it has vanished from the market as the last units in the last
production batch been sold. AFAICT there are none available in the UK
except on eBay and similar sites. They are still advertised in some
places, but these ads are all marked 'out of stock' with no indication of
when new stock might appear. Some sites let you ask to be notified if/
when it does.

The Binatone series of satnavs are no longer even mentioned on the
Binatone website. I suspect the same applies to other makes as well. IOW,
any WM 5/6 device and the software that runs on it is now in the zombie
zone.

As nobody has announced ot released anything that uses the Win 7 or 8
equivalents of WM6, I guess that M$ either don't support satnavs or have
priced their software too high for this market. I haven't so far heard of
or seen any Android based replacements, so it could be that we've seen
the end of commodity PNAs and will be expected to run our navigation
systems on Android-based smartphones or tablets.

Consequently, sooner or later XCSoar, LK8000, Oudie and equivalents will
no longer be supported on devices running WM 6. XCSoar already runs under
Android and I hear that an Android version of LK8000 will be out next
year. SYM? I don't know what they're doing. Can anybody enlighten us?


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